Patternbank love Madame Peripetie’s surreal interpretations of the human body. Through high-fashion, sculpture, photography and collage Peripetie explores the boundaries between these disciplines experimenting with colour, fabric, texture and patterns. Her inspirations include surrealism, dadadism, the new wave era of the 80′s, British post punk scene and the avant-garde theatre of Robert Wilson. Check out more of her work at madameperipetie.com and on behance.net
Stockholm based print designer Hannah Waldron exhibits a strong sense of pattern and structure in her prints, and more recently has embraced weave, translating her signature style into structured textiles. With an enviable list of commissions in her portfolio including a tapestry commission for PICK ME UP 2012, and various projects for the V&A, Pizza Express and Paul Smith to name but a few, Hannah’s success is abundant. Patternbank love her stylised approach to pattern, building images with simple lines and blocks. Hannah’s ‘Furoshiki‘ (a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth that were frequently used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods) are available to buy, with 10% of sales going towards recovery efforts in Tohoku, specifically to rebuild a sewing factory where Furoshikis are made.
Patternbank brings you our second print highlight report on the recent New York A/W 2013 Fashion shows. In this instalment we have again selected key designers showing the strongest print trends for Fall / Winter 2013. Keep an eye out for our reports on London, Milan and Paris Shows which we will also be covering here at Patternbank.
Clover Canyon photos via Fashionising.com
Libertine photos via Fashionising.com
Helmut Lang photos via Fashionising.com
Marc By Marc Jacobs photos via Fashionising.com
Carolina Herrera photos via fashionising.com
Christian Siriano photos via Fashionising.com
J Crew photos via Fashionising.com
Patternbank brings you the highlights from New York A/W 2013 Fashion Week. This is the first instalment where we have selected designers showing key print trends for Fall / Winter 2013. Watch out for Part 2 which will follow shortly and the up and coming London, Milan and Paris Shows which we will also be covering here at Patternbank.
Thakoon photos via Fashionising.com
Suno photos via Fashionising.com
Tracy Reese photos via Fashionising.com
Mara Hoffman photos via Fashionising.com
BCBG Max Azria photos via Vogue.com
Alexandre Hercovitch photos via Fashionising.com
Part 2 of Patternbank’s New York Print & Pattern Highlight report will be live shortly.
Patternbank is pleased to announce Part 2 of our Spring/Summer 2014 print trend report. In this second instalment the Patternbank team brings you an array of inspirational content, that will help develop new print collections for the summer 2014 season. The team have focused in on the strongest and most commercially viable print trend stories that will inspire and equip you with the key looks of the Summer season. Be sure not to miss Part 1 of the report here.
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José Lerma creates a mixture of paintings and intricate installations combining non-traditional materials from reflective fabrics, commercial carpet, thickly applied paint and biro pen. In this he makes reference to his own personal history and academic knowledge of social history, law and art. Some of these images feature Baroque style portraits of historical, famous French Bankers from 18th Century sporting over-exaggerrated sketchy, doodle wigs with distorted and blank faces. The scale of the installation pieces has great effect where the viewer can walk over and examine at detail. Lerma says, ” I like the thought of people walking over my ideas, convoluted and preliminary as they often are, and examining and stepping over an intimate space while simultaneously feeling small.” You can see more of is highly spell bounding work at joselerma.com and on flickr
Anne Sofie Melgaard manages to convey such wonderful texture and colour-use in her paintings of tropical gardens. Foliage appears in relief next to vividly painted tropical flowers that stand proud, all fighting to be noticed. The vases and bowls the plants jostle in are just as important in their decoration with fun geometric patterns, that you almost want to go and create your own brightly coloured garden! Melgaard is exhibiting at Bie & Vadstrup Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 2013 and you can see more of her magical work at annesofiemeldgaard.com.
Cristian Boian is a Romanian Graphic Designer who loves experimenting with new technology to create these complex group of artworks titled “Attempts”. Beautiful choice of subdued colour palette make these fractal wonders irresistible. We did a post on Cristian early last year here, check out his Behance page for more of his incredible work.
