I’ve seen the pat­terns of Ashely Gold­berg float­ing around my Pin­ter­est over the past cou­ple of days, and with good rea­son. Her pat­terns are really ener­getic and ges­tural, and don’t nec­es­sar­ily feel like what she says they are. Also, I think they are very pretty. What make Ashley’s work suc­cess­ful is in the whirl­wind of ...

I saw Louise Despont’s work in per­son this past win­ter at the Los Ange­les Arts Con­tem­po­rary. Using yel­lowed, antique ledger paper as her ground, her work is a com­plex net­work of pat­terns and sym­met­ri­cal elements. Louise received her BA in Art Semi­otics. Once I knew this fact, her work really seemed to open up fur­ther ...

I know, I know. Peo­ple are tired of win­ter. I get it! But, that still doesn’t stop me from admir­ing knit­ted garments. The work of Annie Lar­son, AKA All Knitwear is super bright, col­or­ful, and fun. She mixes pat­tern and color like a fruit salad as sleeves, legs, arms, etc. all don dif­fer­ent ele­ments and ...

Anna Hig­gie is another artist today whose work focuses on the por­trait. Stark con­trast, frac­tured space, and metic­u­lous mark-making are a few ele­ments present in her work. Anna has worked for a num­ber of dif­fer­ent clients, includ­ing Nordstrom’s, Bloom­ing­dales, and other fashion-based enter­prises. Her illus­tra­tions def­i­nitely illus­trate the essence of a lifestyle, with good look­ing peo­ple ...

The very sweet Brie Har­ri­son got in con­tact with me recently, and I’m so glad she did! I’ve admired her work for a long while and took the oppor­tu­nity to do a ques­tion and answer ses­sion with her. Brie is a print designer and illus­tra­tor based in Suf­folk, Eng­land. You might already be famil­iar with ...

I absolutely adore Amy Kligman’s work. Liv­ing and work­ing in Kansas City, Mis­souri (my home­town!), she paints using inter­est­ing pat­terns and a keen sense of unusual storytelling. A lot of Amy’s work is adorned with pat­tern or some sort of rep­e­ti­tion. I think it’s an inter­est­ing idea that Amy paints every­thing — pat­tern implies exact ...

Micah Lid­berg cre­ates work that instantly gels with me. It’s col­or­ful and a bit out of this world with an empha­sis on scale and pat­tern. I find it visu­ally inter­est­ing and aes­thet­i­cally pleasing. Micah is inspired by nature and this really comes through in nearly all of his work. Even when he’s illus­trat­ing beauty prod­ucts, ...

Rachel Wil­son stud­ied Eng­lish in col­lege. After hav­ing worked in the pub­lish­ing indus­try for awhile, she even­tu­ally returned to her love of mak­ing things. I think that Rachel’s time spent study­ing lit­er­a­ture shines through in her work. Upon view­ing her work, I was instantly reminded of the Art Nou­veau move­ment. Her draw­ings, like that the art ...

Natasha New­ton is an artist and illus­tra­tor liv­ing and work­ing in Suf­folk, Eng­land. Her work is inspired by nature, pat­terns, and ani­mals, fea­tur­ing them all very prominently. Natasha’s work is very del­i­cate, and almost lyri­cal how the fig­ures and ground inter­act each other. There is often such a stark con­trast between them you really pick ...

Jolby is the cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts of Josh Kenyon and Colby Nichols. After meet­ing in design school, they com­bined their sen­si­bil­i­ties to form Jolby. Although started in San Diego, both even­tu­ally went their sep­a­rate ways to Chicago and Port­land. Dis­tance, how­ever, did not squash Jolby — they have still found ways to co-produce and through ...