Color and Pattern 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design

by Howell, Khristian A.

• ISBN13: 9781631590412
• ISBN10: 1631590413
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-15
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers

Summary

Explore patterns, an art form that touches every consumer and shows how to make it work in real life with 50 exercises.

Author Biography

Khristian A. Howell is a color and pattern expert who fuses her eclectic range of styles into bold designs for product and spaces. She loves to play with ideas of hard and soft, light and dark, feminine and masculine to create depth and interest in her designs. It is the mastery of this push + pull that creates ease and balance in the work. Her work has been featured in ELLE DECOR, Real Simple, and HGTV Magazine. She contributes frequently to Better Homes and Gardens and Fox 32 Chicago. 

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
The Impact of Pattern Design
Glossary
>Gathering Inspiration
1. Start an inspiration journal
2. Inspiration Hunt: Study a bouquet of flowers
3. Take a walk with your sketchbook or camera
4. Inspiration Hunt: Shoot or sketch 10 patterns in nature5. Inspiration Hunt: Shoot or sketch 10 different types of foliage
6. Inspiration Hunt: Take a trip just for inspirationfeaturing Jessica Swift7. Inspiration Hunt: Go “shopping” for samples
8. Visit a museum, art gallery, or festival
9. Inspiration Hunt: Shoot or sketch 10 architectural patterns
10. Create an inspiration boardfeaturing Mary Beth Freet11. Start a Pinterest account12. Gather color inspiration
Exploring Motifs
13. Create geometric motifs
14. Play with doodle motifsfeaturing Rachael Taylor15. Sketch floral motifs
16. Reinvent folk motifs
17. Explore ethnic motifs
18. Design a foulard
19. Play with children’s motifsfeaturing Abi Hall20. Create conversational motifs featuring Arrolynn Weiderhold21. Add texture to motifs
22. Convert hand-drawn motifs to digitalfeaturing Jenean MorrisonDesigning Repeats
23. Create a repeat by handfeaturing Leah Duncan24. Create a repeat with Adobe Illustrator featuring Michelle Fifis of Pattern Observer25. Design a brick repeat
26. Design a mirrored repeat
27. Experiment with directional motifsfeaturing Rashida Coleman28. Experiment with tossed motifs
29. Design a small-scale print
30. Design a large-scale print
31. Create a dense printfeaturing Elizabeth Olwen32. Create an open print
33. Add depth and layers to a pattern
34. Add texture to a pattern
35. Create a repeat by handfeaturing Leah Duncan36. Create a repeat with Adobe Illustrator featuring Michelle Fifis of Pattern Observer37. Create a repeat with Adobe Photoshop featuring Stephanie CorfeeDeveloping a Collection
38. Study successful collectionsfeaturing Sisters Gulassa39. Craft a story for your collection
40. Use images to tell the story
41. Choose multiple palettes
42. Develop the collection
43. Explore a multicolor palette
44. Explore a simple palette
45. Explore a tonal palette
46. Explore a high-contrast palette
47. Create balance with scale and density
48. Create cohesion with stylefeaturing Ana Davis49. Create cohesion with color
50. Create an eclectic collectionfeaturing Ampersand StudioContributors
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Resources
Index