Sunday Showcase - Rosie Martinez-Dekker

good afternoon on the wonderful summers day (finally...summer has reached the UK!) 

today we are looking at the work of the lovely Rosie Martinez-Dekker of Believe Create Studio.

Rosie is a Mexican designer based in The Netherlands. she graduated in Graphic and Textile design with honors.

in 2011 Rosie and her husband Vincent Dekker founded Believe creative studio, a design studio specialising in surface, textile and graphic design mainly for children and babies, with the purpose of dedicating to her real passion.

the studio is based in The Netherlands, and currently has customers in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and Mexico.

the studio will be exhibiting their A13/W14 collection in Indigo - Premiere vision in Paris during the fashion session in September. you can find them on Stand 5U49 featuring a talented group of guest designers.

Rosie is the creative director of Believe Create Studio and she also designs both hand painted and digital designs.  her style is colorful, whimsical and fun. she loves to represent emotions, and to create little stories with each of her designs, which are inspired by everyday moments, fantasy and nature.

Her website beautifully incorporates her style, you know exactly what she is about - it is cheery, fun and playful...I love it!

Believe creative studio also offers tailor-made design, trend research and consultancy in sustainable textiles and materials strategy.

The studios mission? ...to Imagine, Create and Inspire!

QUICK LINKS:

WEB: http://www.believe-cs.com

BLOG: http://believecreativestudio.blogspot.co.uk/

FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Believe-creative-studio/196944370347317?ref=stream

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/#!/believecstudio

PINTEREST: http://pinterest.com/believecstudio/

LINKEDIN: http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/rosa-martinez-dekker/8/169/612

Sunday Showcase - Virginia Kamau

Virginia Kamau is today's fabulous ABSPD graduate that we are featuring here on Sunday Showcase!

Virginia works under the studio name of Njeri Designs, based in Sweden. She sees her style as expressive and playful, bright and colourful...simply full of imagination!

Jumba, and close-up

Her work has a hugely energetic feel, and her Jumba range shows her playful side:

I love Virginias 'Keywe' design...so bright and fresh! it can be found in her Etsy and Society6 shops on various products:

Virginia has just graduated from the ABSPD e-course - this is one of the designs created from one of the classroom briefs:

Having enjoyed this course immensely - it really is amazing - she may now well be suffering from a bit of brain overload ;) 

QUICK LINKS:

WEB:  http://www.njeridesigns.com/

BLOG:  http://virginiakamau.blogspot.se/

SOCIETY6:  http://society6.com/DesignedbyVirginia

ETSY:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/Designedbyvirginia

SPOONFLOWER;  http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/njeridesigns

FLICKR:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/virginiakamau/

LINKEDIN:  http://se.linkedin.com/in/virginiank

Sunday Showcase - Claire Leggett

welcome all!

today we are delving into the gorgeous painterly creations of the wonderful Claire Leggett!

Claire is a painter, surface pattern designer and blogger based in Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

Claire's work has won her a national painting prize, and she has a grand following from local galleries - exhibiting at RBSA, The Purple Gallery and The Mulberry Tree regularly.

"My painting and design is a celebration of colour and pattern. I love ornament and design in both natural and man made objects. With a background in printed textiles I find myself most often drawn to flat, graphic pattern as a backdrop for flowers and domestic ceramics." - Claire Leggett

Claire has just completed a licensing deal with Mulberry Tree Gallery - they will be selling 5 of her gorgeous paintings as greetings cards.

   

QUICK LINKS:

WEB:     www.claireleggett.co.uk

BLOG:   paintdropskeepfalling.wordpress.com

Sunday Showcase - Jolene Heckman

hello, hello, hello! happy july and welcome to week 4 of the Sunday Showcase, nice to have you :)

this week we are celebrating new and fresh talent in the form of Jolene Heckman...

gorgeous summery design from 'in the garden' collection

for her whole life Jolene has had a love for colour, pattern and design.  as a young child she was constantly creating and now with 2 little girls of her own she find their energy and creative spirit has become the foundation of her inspiration.

'colour outside the lines' collection

as a creative marketing professional Jolene always surrounded herself with design.  she worked for many years as a dynamic marketer in the world of product design, but now, after years of traveling the world to seek out new trends and create innovative product, she finds herself seeking out her true passions...

"I am so happy that I am able to follow my dream…a dream of print, pattern 

and all things beautiful"

'summer sorbet' collection

the Art and Business of Surface Design course has allowed her to embark on a new adventure.  she is inspired by everything that now surrounds her, and her designs always begin with her passion for color and love for creativity

QUICK LINKS:
B: http://joleneheckman.blogspot.co.uk/

Sunday Showcase - Sian Elin

This week on Sunday Showcase we have the very talented Sian Elin...


Sian Elin is a fun, enthusiastic, and creative surface pattern designer and illustrator, who has spent a lifetime seeing the world through pattern and colour; and how shape and form interact. 

yum!

She worked as a book designer for 6 years but then decided to leave and do what she truly loved - surface pattern design!  She loves to hand draw everything and then colour digitally.  

She likes to draw patterns from everything she sees around her; cities, signs, and buildings; 

I love these 2 designs from her 'Places' collection...London and New York - fab!

...to hand-drawing typography; 

...and to creating more abstract patterns:

Sian's style is quirky, fun, and stylish!

2 designs based on this years 2 huge British events - the Jubilee and the Olympics

Even some old bottle and jars look fab in her unique illustrative style!

Sian has recently launched her own card range which can be found in her Folksy shop which is shipping all over the globe!  Enjoy!

QUICK LINKS:


WEB:       www.sianelin.com
BLOG:     www.plumpyplum.wordpress.com/
FB:           www.facebook.com/sianelindesigns
FOLKSY: http://folksy.com/shops/sianelin

Sunday Showcase - Veronica Galbraith

Hi guys and welcome to week 2 of the Sunday Showcase! Up this week is Veronica Galbraith...


Originally from Columbia Veronica has grown up surrounded by creative minds - a family of architects, designers and painters set her well on her way to becoming a designer! Now living in Cornwall she has been in the industry for 15 years.

Veronica has a really inspirational story - she took a break from design for motherhood for a whopping 7 years.  A friend introduced her to the wonderful Print & Pattern blog, and as she says 'it all clicked, all fell into place. This is what I was supposed to be doing!' ...and she hasn't looked back since! 

Her graphics design background certainly shows.  This coupled together with her love of folksy design styles as shown in her Pinterest boards really shines through in her work.  She is currently working on building her portfolio - here are some of her latest pieces created during her time on the ABSPD course... 

Veronica's Bold Honeycomb design (above left) has been entered into the Spoonflower Geometric competition - vote here!

QUICK LINKS:


W: www.verogalbraith.co.uk
B: www.pitter-pattern.com 
F: www.facebook.com/verogalbraith
T: www.twitter.com/vero_galbraith
P: www.pinterest.com/verogalbraith
S6: www.society6.com/verogalbraith
SP: www.spoonflower.com/profiles/verogalbraith
LI: uk.linkedin.com/in/verogalbraith
www.behance.net/verogalbraith

Sunday Showcase - Schatzi Brown

hi guys and welcome to the first of my Sunday Showcase features!  here i will be showcasing some of the amazing work from my fellow classmates of the Art & Business of Surface Pattern Design course...

todays designer is the wonderfully talented Schatzi Brown (otherwise known as Tanya Brown).  based in New York she has a background in Surface and Textile Design.

she has a beautiful blog where you can follow her work. i love her pattern story feature, it's like a growing look-book, full of so much inspiration! ...the same with her pinterest collections...gorgeous mini-moodboards of all varieties...i could stare at them all day!

Tanya incorporates so many elements into her designs - hand drawn motifs, painting and digital elements - it gives her a totally unique style. i absolutely love her palettes - just so rich and yummy!

if you want to own some of Tanyas work she has a number of her designs available as iPhone cases, laptop skins, and canvases on society6, and she has prints for sale on etsy:

QUICK LINKS:

W: http://www.schatzibrown.com/ 

B: http://schatzibrown.wordpress.com/

F: http://www.facebook.com/tanya.z.brown

T: https://twitter.com/#!/Schatztibrown

P: http://pinterest.com/schatzibrown/

E: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SchatziBrown

S6: http://society6.com/SchatziBrown/cases