Surface Pattern

Surface pattern

Theme - Urban / Rural Revisited

I decided to do this unit purely digital as that is the media i am most comfortable with and because i am doing another unit all about digital media which will help both units.

To begin this unit as i've not tried repeat pattern design i decided to look at google images, searching for patterns that repeat just to see if any inspire me, i found myself drawn to the images that were a illustrated image repeated to make the repeat pattern. I thought about how i could use the theme in this way and who would like this type of pattern. While still searching i stated to see that most of the patterns i liked were fitting for children as they were simple and colourful.

While looking at different types of patterns on google images i found Jessica Hogarths car pattern.

Jessica Hogarth is a surface pattern designer and illustrator Based in North Yorkshire

This sparked an idea of using silhouette of cars to make a pattern

While looking at Jessica Hogarth's work I tried a similar style of illustrated patterns

I decided to use this one

as a test for making a pillow design and use on the sculpture

After experimenting this way i like the uses of silhouettes and layering them to make a abstracted pattern and thinking about the theme i thought about different elements i could try this technique with that's when i came across this image.

Which gave me a eureka moment to use a city skyscape to try the layering silhouette effect.

After this i thought that i might be getting to carried away with this technique so i back away for this and tried a different approach.

At this point i knew definitely that i was working to the theme of urban revisited as i am more interested in coming up with patterns form urban Environments.

My second idea came to me while thinking on how to use the texture rubbings that i was asked to do at the start of the unit. The idea was to make rubbing with elements of rural environments and make them into patterns to be displayed as a wallpaper or projected in a urban setting.
This is the patterns I came up with displayed as an wall design for buildings

While experimenting with ideas for my contemporary unit in which i was contemplating crating building out of cardboard i came up with the idea the make a pattern out of a birds eye view of a city.

 after this idea i went back to the silhouette idea because i like the result of that and did some more

This one I think works well as from further away you can pick out different shape and I think would work well as a repeat pattern.

and I used this piece as a wallpaper for a living room

While doing my contemporary unit I made a sculpture of a building and I came up with the idea of sticking my patterns onto the sculpture

All in all I enjoyed this unit as an trial for surface pattern and looking at the work I produced and my thought process I believe if i was to do this unit again I would probably do it all different from research to producing the patterns. However I do think my patterns do work as urban patterns even if you can't see the urban-ness about them.