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Raquel Aparicio – Folk Tales and Fairytales in Watercolour

By Patternbank On April 11, 2013 · In Inspiration

Fairy Tales and Russian Folk stories come to life in the skillful hands of Illustrator and artist Raquel Aparicio. Romanian born Raquel left her native land and travelled the globe to study her art. Edinburgh and Spain became her home during her time studying with a year spent at the Illustration Academy in Florida to top it off. Patternbank loves her delicate fluid style and the painstaking attention to detail in her floral decoration.Her list clients include Nylon, Nokia and Orange with other commissions made for a variety of publications such as Elle magazine, Rolling Stone and the New York Times. See her website for more inspiring work.

Vintage Radio Tuning Dial Graphics – Indiana Radios

By Patternbank On April 10, 2013 · In Graphics

Antique and vintage graphics are such a wealth of inspiration for layout, typography and colour. The Patternbank team stumbled on these stunning antique radio tuning dial graphics and thought we’d share. The collection was curated by Michael Feldt for the Indiana Radio site, which is a huge information database for antique radio enthusiasts. We recommend you delve deeper and check out the site to view more visually inspiring vintage dials and charts.

Peggy Wolf – Fashion and Sophistication

By Patternbank On April 9, 2013 · In Inspiration

German born illustrator Peggy Wolf has a unique style which is always recognizable. After studying Fashion Design, Peggy began a career in interior design, with both influencing her illustration technique. Her well known fashion inspired designs sell on Etsy and Culturelabel, but Wolf has more recently collaborated with with knitwear designer Iben Høj creating a series of illustrations for her A/W 2013 lookbook. Check out her website for a sneaky peek.

Molly Rose Freeman – Urban Constallations

By Patternbank On April 5, 2013 · In Inspiration

Street artist Molly Rose Freeman lets her art transform urban spaces. From soulless, uninspiring surroundings her paintings develop and grow, ‘I use basic geometric shapes so they can become anything, move any way they want. I don’t know what the wall will look like really until the very end. It’s exciting to be surprised, to make something without fully understanding what you’re making. That’s the magic’. Her interest in geometric shapes within sacred spaces, throughout history and culture, have led her to recreate this within urban landscapes. Molly has worked within Street Art groups and outreach programs such as Livingwalls and The City Speaks, in deprived areas throughout the US helping to inject energy and spirit through art. See all her latest projects on her website.

Album de Aves Amazonicas – Biodiversity Heritage Library

By Patternbank On April 4, 2013 · In Inspiration

These beautiful illustrations of Amazonian Birds were created between 1900 and 1906 and have been given a new lease of life by the BHL. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature , representing tens of thousands of titles and over 100,000 volumes. The Biodiversity Heritage Library Website.

‘Hole School’ Street Art – Sten & Lex

By Patternbank On April 4, 2013 · In Graphics

Street art takes many forms, Patternbank stumbled across these unique and dynamic murals and thought we’d share. These hand cut, hand painted creations are the work of Rome based Italian street art duo Sten & Lex. Using a technique they call ‘Hole school’ Sten Lex create huge murals that consist of cut out stencils and blown up photocopied imagery. The duo are best known in the history of stencil making for introducing the halftone stencil technique where the main part of their stencil portraits are composed by thousands of lines. Graphic subject matter is a mix of historical and religious figures as well as Lex herself. They are currently showing at Magda Danysz Gallery in Shanghai until the April 30th so definitely worth a look if you are visiting.

Daniel Shiel – Adventures Through Abandoned Landscapes

By Patternbank On April 3, 2013 · In Graphics

Daniel Shiel’s professional training as an archaeologist in the UK puts his photographic work into context, though he can trace his preoccupations back to childhood holidays exploring historical and industrial landscapes.The subjects he photographs have ‘minor histories’; from their creation to destruction, from usefulness to abandonment.He extracts specific details from photographic images, isolating them from their original context. These provide ‘materials’ or ‘pallets’ which are combined, using collage.The resulting structures attempt to define and express the uncertain sensations and responses experienced during his explorations. They may have a surrealist quality; becoming remote landscapes and settings of questionable and unsettling perspective and narrative.Patternbank loves the visual feast these collective images deliver. Distressed texture highlights intricate, vintage, typography or frames the surprising placements of architectural features. Visit Daniel’s website to see more.

Illustration Collective – Patswerk

By Patternbank On March 27, 2013 · In Graphics

These quirky, oddball illustrations are the work of Netherlands based art studio Patswerk. Situated in The Hague, Patswerk was founded in 2008 by long time friends Ramon Avelino, Rogier Mulder and Lex van Tol. The studio collective use playful, surreal, complex compositions that mix an array of everyday objects in fresh colourful statements. See more of their unique and fun work at the recently updated website patswerk.nl.