Wheels Of Colour

December 29, 2018 Leave a comment

Redbubble Products Made With This Design

This design is rather an amalgamation of different motifs that have been put together to resemble the tile patterns that were produced in the UK mid-century.

I have taken some liberties with the colours and, although the colouring is still firmly mid-century, it is much brighter and more extreme than you perhaps might have found that time. The colours, as you may have guessed, are from my extended mid-century palette.

The intention with this particular pattern was to produce a very colourful design for both clothing and homeware products such as cushions. I have included an image which shows four of this range made with Redbubble where I hope that you will agree that they produce good-looking and pleasant patterned final products. For the want of a better name I decided to title them as shown above.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

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Quaint Pastel Oulton Mugs

July 24, 2016 Leave a comment

Redbubble Oulton Pastel Mugs
Redbubble Oulton Pastel Mugs

This is a deceptive design that looks simple but in fact took quite a lot of work over quite a long time to materialise.

It came about by my taking an element out of a more complex pattern which was too involved to use commercially and trying to make a pattern out of that. I tried a variety of different designs, using the element with others and in the end I realised that I need only just use it by itself.

The actually pattern was created by chance really using Illustrator’s new pattern options and it was then that I realised that it had potential.

I decided to use it as a pattern for mugs on Redbubble because, having purchased some of the mugs, I was impressed with the look and workmanship of them (and anyway, I like designing mugs). Having got a scale I like, I decided to use mid-century original pastel colours taken from the British Standard in use at the time. Pastel colours seem to suit mugs so well and set off the colour of the drink (in my case green tea). A bit of experimentation produced the following colours, porcelain blue, shell pink, vanilla and lovely yaffle green.

If you don’t know, yaffle seems to be the local English name for the woodpecker so it’s really woodpecker green which sounds maybe nicer, I don’t know.

You can find them (and buy them) at my Redbubble shop which is here. Also, you can see larger versions of this and our other work on our Flickr page, here.

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