Good morning everyone & happy Monday! One of the many great things about living in Leeds… the beautifully designed shop windows! Every season there is new set of inspiring displays to gawp at & around […]

This week has been wonderful, I LOVE Paris! I feel truly blessed that I traveled to Paris for work! I’ll be sharing some trend snippets & show research on the blog over the next coming […]

Hello everyone! For a little change, today I want to share with you this amazing video. It’s called Ride of Passage and it was created by The Animation Workshop, an animation school in Denmark. Directed […]

Happy ‘Wedding Wednesday’ everyone! Today I wanted to share with you all a selection of gorgeous wedding stationery designed by the lovely Katy Clemmans. Katy is one of our many talented e-course students. We really […]

Since we launched the e-course we have been blown away by the fantastic group submissions. We feel very blessed to have such a talented group & supportive online community. I keep spotting the class sharing […]

Morning! Happy Monday 🙂 I’m delighted to announce that I have now been hired as Creative Design Assistant for Rachael Taylor Designs! I can’t wait to get stuck in after I graduate! 🙂 For today I am featuring […]

Happy Friday everyone! With Valentine’s Day fast approaching I thought I’d showcase another lovely selection of design work from our many surface pattern e-course students. These particular pieces are from the Tigerprint design competition called […]

Hello, hello! Birdy & Me is the fantastic work of Australian illustrator, Kelly Smith. She focuses on portrait and fashion illustration and such inspiration makes for some very stylish yet soft and beautiful work. As […]

Apologies that the ‘Wedding Wednesday’ theme has been postponed for a little while. It’s been rather hectic at the #surfacepatternecourse HQ & with licensing & running my own label it’s all gone a bit mad! […]

For those of you that regularly follow my work, you will already know that I’m obsessed with the colour Orange! I’m known for my quirky brights & Orange has always been a key accent colour […]

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I wanted to share with you some beautiful finds from Abi (one of my recent work placements) I sent Abi out to do a little research & comp shopping whilst she […]

Happy Monday lovely bloggers! I have some amazing illustration for you today from the very talented Alanna Cavanagh (amazing name!) The Canadian based printmaker and surface designer has a very fluid and hand-drawn style that transfers […]

Happy Friday! Here are some lovely words & quotes that have inspired me lately. All found via the lovely website that is pinterest.