Bottle Fame and Brew Glory: Teaching Myself How to Repeat Pattern

One of my biggest enthusiasms lies with pattern design in the creative world of design and illustration and I love to come up with a few things of my own. However, I had never really created a repeat pattern of my own before. - time to set that straight, and what better way to go about it that using one of my biggest influences, Harry Potter!

 

I took down potions that were mentioned in the Harry Potter series and their book-page-number code down and turned them into potion label details. I then tried to embody the potion's use in the bottle shape and label design.
I did all this by pen. Then I scanned the drawings in and arranged them into the best composition, ready to create it into a repeat tile in photoshop.

Winter Wedding Table Cards

I've been having so much fun developing these animal couple characters for each table card. It's been both fun and a challenge to work out how the animals could interact for their size, shape and literally composition space.

 

Once again, the same foliage formation has been carried over from the menu, as it will be displayed on the back of each of these table cards. I therefore wanted a seamless flow from one side of the image to the other. 

Winter Wedding Menu

Continuing with the winter wedding stationary commission I have been illustrating the set menu, which will be displayed on the back of each table card.

 

The winter foliage has been bought through from the invitation in a slightly different arrangement that allowed for more cursive typography and filling out the space with the menu text. 

Winter Wedding

I am currently working on another wedding stationary commission for a couple planning their winter wedding. It's a really sweet theme and colour palette to work with. So far I have been playing around with their wedding invitations (A6 double sided)

Things are starting to get Festive over here!

In the build up to Christmas... yes it's still only October, but you've got to be prepared, no!?

I've been working on some Christmas themed repeat pattern designs for CygnetINK using a max of two christmas decorations in each. 

I've also uploaded them in my society6 store!

A few items in the society6 range for these festive prints!...

BohoTemple

A friend of mine is currently starting up her own handmade venue decoration business after creating the most beautiful and creativity filled weddings for herself, and she kindly asked me if I could possibly design her business card and logo.

As the company name states, a bit theme of the company and designs aesthetics is boho, and so I researched into ethnic and asian patterns which I could then create an influenced and accumulative pattern piece which sat nicely behind her logo. 

I decided to stick to a fairly small colour palette and worked with those rich and vibrant orange's, fuchsia's and maroon's which are often so evident in the patterns I was influenced by and were used in her own wedding decorations. 

We discussed the logo having themes of love and that boho element, and so I looked at using the motif of two elephants to be a couple, and then the hearts that circle them also work as foliage. 

A logo that also incorporates her website around the logo in a similar manner to the heart-foliage. These logo's could then be transferable for use as stickers and stamps for products.

MinaLima, Harry Potter Sweet Packaging Design

A competition to participate in either the redesign of an already written about sweet from the world of Harry Potter, or design packing for your own magical sweet. 

I created my own 'Portkey Popping Candy' which would essentially jump you around the room as you ate it, each time it crackled. The emphasis was upon the packing design however, and so I used the designs MinaLima previously used in the films and I was influenced by the 'Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes' collection.

I wanted a bold and dynamic pattern with a clear aesthetic, and stuck to a minimal colour palette, thinking that perhaps there would be different coloured Portkey Popping Candy and then the colour of the packaging would reflect that.

I also made my own mock-up of the packaging which I thought would be interesting to have in a sachet style packaging with a flap lid, tied by ribbon, slightly like a wallet.