We love these deep, layered, dreamlike works by London based Freelance Illustrator and Graphic Designer Robert Colquhoun. The muted colours and complex textures with the often indistinguishable transparent images draw you in to Robert’s world. Check his website out, you can also buy some of these great prints on Society6.
Margriet Smulders Photography evokes that feeling of the great Dutch painters of the seventeenth century with theatrical scenes of flowers and fruit. Lush and strangely erotic with the use of huge mirrors, glass vases, rich draperies, fruit and cut blooms Smulders arranges her subject beautifully.The result is impressive and rich in texture colour and content. You can see more of her outstanding work at margrietsmulders.nl and some beautiful book publications too.
There’s not much we can tell you about Bryan Cook other than he’s an artist from Dallas Texas specialising in surreal digital photo manipulation, graffiti, and abstract art. We love these particular pieces for there reflective, textured and earthy feel that fit perfectly with our Photographic Board on Pinterest. Check out more of his great work on Flickr.
When Patternbank first stubbled on these images on Pinterest we did a double take, first assuming they were another interpretation of the many double exposure photographs that seem to be everywhere at the moment. In fact when we took a closer look at Pakayal Rae Biehhns work on her website youshouldtakecare.com we discovered they are her own beautiful take on this much loved photo technique. Biehn uses oils and acrylics on canvas and paints life-like floral designs over some of her favourite images. The result is very convincing and where you can see her brush marks it makes for all the more interest.
Patternbank love these freaky limited edition t-shirts. More pieces of digital art than garments, and with only 10 copies of each design printed. This project is the vision of media artist Sterling Crispin, who has collaborated with a handful of well known and up and coming artists to create a real visual treat. The project is channeled through Netstl.es, where you can purchase these limited edition pieces.
With experimental digital prints continuing to trend for Spring/Summer 2013, the Patternbank crew spotted these amazing photo collage prints by Brit/Brazilian duo Basso & Brooke. These prints are from their current Spring/Summer 2012 collection but with their creative forward thinking, we are seeing this style of print as a key reference point for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2013 catwalk shows. Mixing photo floral elements, abstract surreal backdrops and digitally manipulated imagery, Basso & Brooke are definitely the designers to keep an eye on for upcoming digital print trends.
Also check out Basso & Brooke’s massive 31 print sweatshirt collection, which is a real inspirational reference point for any designer.
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.
