Patternbank love Amelie Petit Moreau’s series of engravings and linocuts. Her work is varied but the underlying theme of monochromatic stripes, geometric patterns and experiments with scanning and photography is a feast for the eyes. In the Xero Lino series Moreau prints linocuts on bamboo paper and then experiments with scanning to create some great effects. You can see more of her work at ameliepetitmoreau.com
Nathalie du Pasquier is a founding member of The Memphis Group which was an influential Italian design and architecture group. In the period from 1981 – 1987 they designed Post Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects. When the band broke in 1987 she devoted herself almost exclusively to painting. To find out much more about this groundbreaking designer visit her website. To see some of the incredible work by the Memphis Group check out this Flickr Page.
Patternbank brings you Part 1 of our essential Spring/Summer 2014 print trend direction for the new season. Our trends forecast team have been busily researching the globe for the strongest directional print trends. In this report we aim to supply and inspire you with the key print trends for Spring/Summer 2014, making these reports indispensable intelligence tools for your seasonal print developments.
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We are finding these digital sculptures titled ‘Sixpack Colourlover’ by Stefan Künzler utterly mesmerising, he’s a 3D Designer, Graphic Designer and Artist from Zurich, Switzerland. The incredible detail, complexity and weirdness of these designs conjures up futuristic tribal masks from another dimension. Go check more of his mind bending work on his website.
Andreas Nicolas Fischer is a Berlin-based artist that works with data, sculpture and code. He works with the physical manifestation of digital processes and data through generative systems to create sculptures, videos, prints and installations. See more of this beautiful, detailed and textured work on his website.
Susanna Starr uses a range of material to create delicate sculptures that play with scale and pattern. Starr’s practice employs a talent for translating materials in unexpected ways with the use of painted, cut and layered mylar, to delicate wall works of wood veneer with designs meticulously cut out. Starr’s exhibition earlier this year at the Marcia Wood Gallery, “Psychedelicate”, was an explosion of pattern and colour in the neon coloured works suspended ceiling to floor as well as hanging in multiple layers on the wall. With Crafted lace looks being an important trend for next season, we here at Patternbank love Starr’s way of contradicting materials with imagery.
These beautiful shapes and patterns created in the traditional technique of stained glassmaking are by the artist Kerstin Brätsch. In her solo exhibition at Gavin Brown in New York, Brätsch worked with master glassmaker Urs Rickenbach and his workshop Glas Mäder in Zurich. Patternbank love the abstract shapes of colour and transparent light created when viewing her work.
Boston, Don’t Look Back artwork by Gary Norman, Giles Spring 2012, Elisa Vendramin, Carter Smith, Firefly squid of Toyama Japan, Carter Smith, Tourmaline, Detail of viewing machine by Olafur Eliasson
