Modern design website Design Milk has been discovering and highlighting “what’s cool and what’s next in architecture, interior design, automotive, fashion, technology + art” since 2006. So I was very honoured when they reached out to ask if I would like to be the Featured Artist for their monthly Designer Desktop Wallpaper for June 2024! Read the feature HERE and get my free downloadable “Akkorokamui” design for your computer, phone or tech device!
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Just released! My "How Does Your Garden Grow?" and "Soft Summer" Fabric Collections (see both below) are now available from Canadian fabric company Mia Presley Designs! Available for Wholesale only. Click the images below to directly link to these new Fabric Collections at Mia Presley Designs! HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? Collection SOFT SUMMER Collection
Read my latest interview with Roberta Wax in the Journal of the Craft Industry Alliance! We talk about my journey to finding surface pattern design (a meandering path to be sure!), my inspirations and some of the "wisdom" that I've gathered over my years in design. You can read the FULL INTERVIEW HERE! Celebrity portraits by Chris Chapman for Deadline, shot during TIFFs 2021 and 2023.
My “Seashells By The Seashore” coastal wallpaper in a Multi (first pic below) and a Blue colourway have been included in the new “Coastal” Collection curated by the team at Happywall and now available in their online Shop. Go have a look at all the dreamy wallpaper options by various fellow designers in the full Collection HERE!
While you're there, I invite you to check out my Happywall Shop which has a large selection of my wallpapers! All Happywall products are produced in and ship from Sweden. Recently I’ve posted print designs with CRABS and SHRIMPS, so when I saw that the current Spoonflower Design Challenge is “Crustacean Core”, I thought, hmm, time for LOBSTERS! Public voting for this Challenge closes next Tuesday May 21, and I’d love your vote for my new “Lobster Dinner” design! You can link to the Voting Page HERE! . FUN FACT: The claws of mature lobsters are different, one is the larger “crusher” claw (this dominant claw can be either left or right) that moves slowly and is used to break up hard food; the other is a smaller “pincher/cutter” claw that moves faster and is used to tear up soft food (they can even catch small fish with it!) I wish I had known this fact before I finished my new “Lobster Dinner” print design because then I would have had fun exaggerating that difference...But I see that the claws did end up being different anyway! And it just so happened that Uppercase Magazine and the website They Draw announced a joint illustration comp (entries closed May 10 2024), so I couldn't resist adapting this repeat pattern into an illustration in the required square format! Have a look at my "Lobster Dinner" entry below and on the They Draw website!
And now for something COMPLETELY different...
Every once in awhile, I really like to “experiment” a bit with my print designs, and this time I was inspired by the Spoonflower Design Challenge theme: “Party Walls”! For this theme, I immediately thought about BALLOONS...This Challenge was for Wallpaper, but I really think my new “Party Balloons” print design also makes for some REALLY FUN bedding and home decor too! What kid (or adult!) wouldn’t want this pillow or sheet set (see below)?! What do you think?! Sorry for the late post, but public voting for the "Party Walls" Challenge closed May 7, but you can vote in the current Challenge HERE! And you can still shop this design in my Spoonflower Shop HERE. This links to the Large-Scale version, but it is also available in a Small-Scale and Medium-Scale version too! The current Spoonflower Design Challenge is “Textured and Tonal Wallpaper”. When I saw “textured” I immediately started thinking about ikat weavings (maybe because I have several beautiful Indonesian ikat textiles hanging in my house, not to mention stacks of batik fabrics, woven silks, Indian block prints, call me obsessed...ANYWAY...). So I created my “Diamond Ikat” to enter in the Challenge. And then it got me motivated to re-fresh my “Spice Islands” Collection in these new Exotic Colours (Hot Pink, Purple, Red, Blue, Dark Teal, Blush Sand)! Now the whole "Spice Islands" Collection is available in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor, and in my Sweden-based Happywall Shop on Wallpaper. Selected designs from this Collection are also available in my Society6 Shop on Bed & Bath, Tech Accessories, Apparel and much more!
. Although I entered the first “Diamond Ikat” colourway in the Spoonflower Challenge, I ended up falling down the colour rabbit hole AGAIN, so you can see it now comes in a BUNCH of different colourways! Public voting for this Challenge closes Tuesday April 23. Sorry for the late notice, but if you're in time you can link to the Voting Page HERE! If you are a licensee or manufacturer who would like to know the latest in upcoming print trends for kidswear, the brand new "Prints & Graphics Sourcing Guide: Kidswear S/S 25" has just been released by WGSN, the world's leading consumer trend forecaster. This Guide includes several of my pattern designs in its identification of the key trends for Spring/Summer 2025 Kidswear!
Please NOTE: You must be a WGSN subscriber to access this Guide. YAY!! I just got the newest Issue #61 of one of my favourite magazines Uppercase Magazine (which I highly recommend, I’ve had a subscription for years and so look forward to receiving each new inspiring issue, and I probably have EVERY book they’ve published, especially love the Encylcopedias of Inspiration!) and was happy to see the story behind my “Anchovies” artwork has been included in the “revisit/review/remix/revise” article! Read the story behind this artwork (see the last pic to read it here!) so you can understand why it was included for this theme! With thanks to Janine of Uppercase Magazine for including my artwork!
My Entry for the Spoonflower "Treat Yourself" Design Challenge: "Tempura Udon" (Of Course!)4/3/2024 The current Spoonflower Design Challenge is “Treat Yourself” and here’s my idea of a special treat! Imagine staring into a big steaming bowl of “Tempura Udon”, especially if you’re sitting in a little noodle ya in Kyoto after a full day of sightseeing and wandering about, on holiday...but I digress...
Public voting for the “Treat Yourself” Challenge opened Thursday March 28 and closes next Tuesday April 9. You can link to the Voting Page HERE! . Eye Roll Note: When I asked my husband what he thought of my new “Tempura Udon” pattern design (I really like it, so I thought he’d say “Cool!” or “Groovy!”), you know what he said? “It looks like it’s in a square bowl”. Yeeees, but it’s a repeat pattern, soooo....🙄 . SHOP This Design! This yummy design is now available in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in several scales. You can SHOP the Medium-Scale HERE, but there is also a Large-Scale and Small-Scale version in my Shop too! If you prefer, my "Tempura Udon" print is also available in my Happywall Shop on FUN Wallpaper too! Ships from Sweden! I DID IT! I managed to finish a new design to enter in the current Spoonflower “A Trip To The Beach” Design Challenge! I spent WAY too long revising my popular “Coastal Stories” Collection with brand new Seaside Colours because I was inspired by this theme, thus I nearly ran out of time to create a NEW design to enter. But I think these little “Shrimps” make a very nice addition to my (now re-coloured and expanded) “Coastal Stories” Collection! Public voting for this Challenge opens today Thursday March 14 and closes on Tuesday March 26. You can link to the Voting Page HERE. I would love your vote for this one just because I love these cute guys, and I bet they’d be tasty too! . See below for more print designs from my "Coastal Stories" Collection and you can check them all out in my Spoonflower Shop HERE. All are available on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in several scales! See below for more pattern designs from my "Coastal Stories" Collection!
The current Spoonflower Design Challenge is “Warm Minimalism”, but does anyone really know what “Warm Minimalism” is? I certainly didn’t, and whenever I searched the term I would get lots of prints with archways and abstract arch shapes. So I thought, hmm, I like archways! Which got me thinking about arched “vomitoria” (plural for “vomitorium”)...
FUN FACT: Vomitoria were passages used in ancient Roman buildings, such as in the famed Coliseum, designed to provide rapid exit for lots of people in a very short amount of time, ie. so they could spew forth, thus comes our word for “vomit”. ...So here is my design for the current Spoonflower “Warm Minimalism” Design Challenge which features a series of arches looking out at a sunny sky with clouds. I was considering calling it “Vomitorium”, but thought maybe that created a bit of a distasteful image (at least for those of you who already knew the etymology), so I decided to call it “Ruins” instead! And it comes in two colourways (see below)! Click the images to see the Large-Scale versions in my Spoonflower Shop (they're also available in a Small- and Medium-Scale version too)! . Public voting for the “Warm Minimalism” Spoonflower Design Challenge closes Tuesday March 12. You can link to the Voting Page HERE. BOING! BOING! BOING! HELLOOO! BOING! BOING! BOING! HELLOOO! BOING! BOING! BOING! HELLOOOO! BOING! BOING! BOING! SPLASHHH!...
. Thanks to everyone who helped me decide which version of my “Froggy Says Hello” repeat print design to enter in the current Spoonflower “Leap Year Frogs” Design Challenge (the repeat version with the cream background in the first pic below)! Voting is now open until Tuesday February 27. I’d love your vote for this one! You can link to the Voting Page HERE! If you'd like to SHOP these cute little guys on Fabric, Wallpaper and Home Decor, click the images below to link to the Medium-Scale versions in my Spoonflower Shop! But NOTE: they are each also available in a Small- and Large-Scale version too! I’ve entered my "Forest Biome Mushrooms" in the current Spoonflower “Forest Biome Wallpaper” Design Challenge! I had thought I’d do it in more typical “mushroom-y” colours, but I guess you can see how that went! Public voting for this Challenge opened Thursday Feb 1 and closes Tuesday February 13. You can link to the Voting Page HERE! . AND if you'd like to see this fun print design on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in my Spoonflower Shop, CLICK HERE (this is the Large-Scale version which I think is best for Wallpaper). It also comes in a Small-Scale and Medium-Scale version too! . AND of course I couldn't resist adding this design to Graphic Tees in my TeePublic Shop! Scroll down to see! AND as I said, I couldn't resist...I had to adapt this design for Graphic Tees (and more) too! Now available in my TeePublic Shop!
Oh My Goodness! LOOK at the Amazing Project from Grace & Folk Using My "Sunrise" Wallpaper!1/24/2024 OH MY GOODNESS…LOOK! 😍😍 Here is a fantastic use of my "Sunrise" Wallpaper purchased from my Spoonflower Shop. So much thanks to the folks at Grace & Folk for choosing my design for this amazing drinks cabinet re-do project. Cocktails, anyone? . For all the details, please read on for all the info as posted by Grace & Folk in their Instagram Post about their project... . "A BEAUTIFUL BUREAU FOR A BEACHSIDE PROPERTY! 💗🌊🏝️🍦🍬💛 Oh my goodness gracious, we are OBSESSED with this babe!!!!! Its giving us 1920s Ice cream parlour vibes and we are HERE for it!!! 💗🌊🏝️🍦🍬💛 Our customer brought us her tired old bureau in need of a facelift and requested Colour, Art Deco and Seaside-y to become her holiday home drinks cabinet and we think we delivered!!!! 🤤👌🏼💗 Initially a challenge, since we’ve always associated Art Deco with Black and Gold…We then found this FABULOUS paper by @unblinkstudio and paired it with customs mix colours using @frenchicpaint‘s “Apple of My Eye” & “Raspberry” as bases! 🍏💗 Et Voila! It’s fresh! Its vibrant! And just what we need in this grim grey weather!!! 💗🌊🏝️🍦🍬💛" All photos are courtesy of Grace & Folk.
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