UnBlink Studio by Jackie Tahara: Print and Pattern Design and Illustration

And They Call It "Puppy Love"! My Entry For NEXT Week's Spoonflower "Funny Valentine" Design Challenge! Happy Thanksgiving!

11/23/2022

My "Puppy Love" pattern design is my entry for NEXT week's Spoonflower "Funny Valentine" Design Challenge! Maybe it's more "cute" than "funny", but I kinda think the guy with the glasses and tall head is pretty funny! You can link to the Voting Page HERE, and Public Voting for this Challenge opens next Thursday DEC 1 (I had thought voting started this week, but there's a break for Thanksgiving!) Don't worry, I'll remind you next week! Happy Thanksgiving!

My Entry for This Week's Spoonflower "Playmats" Design Challenge! Kawaii!

4/25/2019

Fresh off my Top Ten placement in last week's design challenge, I've decided to enter my "City Kids" design (a bit revised) in this week's Spoonflower "Playmats" Design Challenge! How fun would this be on a child's floor?! Even better, there are several kawaii co-ordinating repeat patterns to go with this in my Spoonflower Shop as well (I'm thinking duvets and wallpaper!?) Check out all the fantastic designs on the Voting Page (voting ends April 30 at 3:00 EDT)!

Pool Party Patterns!

10/28/2018

I designed my "Floating World" and "Pool Rings" pattern designs with both this week's colour palette challenge in The Colour Gang and this week's Pool Party people brief in Folio Focus 2018 in mind. Luckily the colour palette and theme worked for both! I wanted to give the feeling of dreamily floating in warm water...winter's not even here and I'm looking forward to summer!

Fun Farmyard Characters for Today!

10/9/2018

This week's brief in Folio Focus 2018 was to create some fun farmyard characters...So here is my "FAMILY FARM" collection of pattern designs featuring affectionate roosters, hens and cute little chicks! I can see these guys on some fun kitchen linens, stationery or childrens wear! Contact me if you would like to license these designs!
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Unicorns for Today!

9/5/2018

Working with some new colour palettes I created while doing a creative exercise in the Colour Gang yesterday, I created this new UNICORN design with a couple of coordinates! This mini-collection is available to license!

The Beginnings of a New Collection I Am Calling "Little Grunt Sculpin" Collection

6/3/2018

Just wanted to share the beginnings of a new collection I am calling "Little Grunt Sculpin". Grunt sculpins are one of my favourite fishes, they are super funny and cute! I suggest checking them out on Youtube. They are sometimes called "bizarre" and "ridiculous" and don't really swim but rather scoot along the sea bottom!

New Colours, New Patterns! One Week Until Blueprint Show 1 and Surtex in NYC! Unbelievable!

5/10/2018

I always love how re-vising pattern designs with new on-trend colours really makes such a difference and gives a pattern collection new life! Here is my "Be My Valentine" Collection with gorgeous new soft colours. These designs are available to license! And one week today until Blueprint Show 1 starts in NYC, followed by Surtex on May 20-22! Looking forward to feasting my eyes at both shows! Please join me there if you can!

My New "Happy Skies and Friendly Rides" Collection! Perfect for Kids (and Maybe Some Adults Too!)

3/10/2018

Thought I would give you another "sneak peek" of what I've been working on. This super fun collection features cute and friendly vehicles zooming along on their merry ways, looking forward to travelling adventures! I conceived of this collection for children, but I think I would love to have these pillows too! These new patterns and many, many more will be showing with Nerida Hansen Print & Textiles at BOTH Surtex and Blueprint Show 1 in May in NYC. Come see!

My "Friendly Bear" Design Won an Honourable Mention in the Corgi Sock Design Competition!

2/22/2018

How fun is this? My "Friendly Bear" sock design won an "honourable mention" in the Corgi Sock Design Competition! Corgi is a UK company established in 1892 that supplies luxury socks to the Royal Family! Check out the announcement of the winners on the Corgi Socks Blog!

New "Flying High" Pattern! Come See Many More of My New Patterns at Surtex 2018 in NYC!

2/11/2018

Having a grand time designing new surface patterns for Surtex 2018! Come see me at Booth 2524 at the Javits Centre NYC, May 20-22 2018! This pattern will be developed into a new collection...stay tuned!

Another Sneak Peek for Surtex 2018 in May!

2/2/2018

Just wanted to post another sneak peek of the surface patterns I've been designing to get ready for Surtex 2018 in NYC in May! Here are some cute and fresh patterns in a brand new collection I've been working on! Let me know what you think!

Round-Up of New Patterns I Designed during Folio Focus Autumn 2017!

11/21/2017

Just thought I would post this round-up of some of the new patterns and placement prints that I designed during the super fun 10-week Folio Focus course! Can't wait to do the course again in 2018!

Week 9 of Folio Focus already! This week's brief was "People"!

11/2/2017

Already into Week 9 of Folio Focus! This week's brief was People, and although the brief was for a self-portrait, somehow these people morphed into Valentine's day patterns! Let me know what you think as this is still a WIP! I guess it could be me, since I have glasses exactly like hers!

Just in time for Halloween! Finished Characters Week 8 for Folio Focus!

10/26/2017

Week 8's brief for Folio Focus was to design Halloween characters! So here is a placement pattern design for party plates and some coordinating repeat patterns!

Week 4 was Ceramics Week in my MATS Home Decor course! Here is my final submission...

9/2/2017

Although this week was all about lettering, I really had fun designing patterns for my ceramics collection! Onwards next week for designing for wood products!

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