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Surreal Collage Compositions   Beth Hoeckel inspiration

After visiting the recent Bread & Butter show in Berlin, the Patternbank team saw that photographic prints are still featuring strong for Spring/Summer 2013 graphics. Colourful, surreal prints are still a main focus for many brands for next summer. With this in mind we thought we’d share these imaginary photo collage prints from Beth Hoeckel. Mixing realist and surrealist Hoeckel’s work plays with the juxtaposition between foreground and background objects. Baltimore based Hoeckel is a collage artist and photographer who loves the control of real paper, ink and adhesive.

Surreal Collage Compositions   Beth Hoeckel inspiration

Surreal Collage Compositions   Beth Hoeckel inspiration

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Surreal Collage Compositions   Beth Hoeckel inspiration

Black Antoinette   Olaf Hajek inspiration

The Patternbank team cant wait to get their hands on Olaf Hajek’s new book, Black Antoinette. A collection of Hajek’s most recent editorial contracts and commercial portraits. Olaf Hajek, who was born in 1965 in Rendsburg, Germany and is now based in Berlin, is currently one of the worlds most successful and well-known illustrative artists.

If you happen to be in Berlin this week, check out Gestalten Space, which is exhibiting some of the works to celebrate the book launch. July 5-29th

Black Antoinette   Olaf Hajek inspiration

Black Antoinette   Olaf Hajek inspiration

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Black Antoinette   Olaf Hajek inspiration

Cardboard Cityscapes   Evol graphics

Patternbank spotted these incredible transformed cardboard pieces by German street artist EVOL. These stencils statements show great attention to detail, depicting light and shadow that transforms surfaces of consumer packaging into fascinating, seemingly multi-dimensional pieces of art.

Cardboard Cityscapes   Evol graphics

Cardboard Cityscapes   Evol graphics

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Cardboard Cityscapes   Evol graphics

These beautifully expressive paintings are the work of Berlin based design studio Hello Me. They were commissioned by Troberg an experimental electro pop band from Munich.

Colour and pattern collide together to produce stunning visual form and movement. The paintings are combined with a custom made typeface. This was created by drawing small lines of paint on paper and then press another paper on top. The letters mostly remained in their original form and were only slightly adjusted.

Colour mash   Troberg album cover art inspiration

Colour mash   Troberg album cover art inspiration

Colour mash   Troberg album cover art inspiration

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Colour mash   Troberg album cover art inspiration