Competition Entries

I entered Tigerprint's October competition 'Christmas Pattern' to create a repeat design for Christmas themed wrapping paper. I used my Christmas colour palette and motifs from my 'Home' project, and was also inspired by old paper prints and collographs I found while tidying. The leaves and dots' colours lent themselves to the festive theme and had interesting texture, so I scanned them to use on Photoshop. Entering was good technical practice as I hadn't used repeat recently and it will be needed for my wallpaper designs. I was happy with the designs which are bold but not too busy, appropriate for Christmas and commercial.

I observed winning entries after the competition closed, and they were more involved in terms of drawing and use of motifs. This was surprising; usually commercial designs are simple. They also liked use of figures in one design as it was unusual. In comparison my designs look generic; next time I might inject more character and spend more time drawing.

Patternity ran a photography competition as they needed images of interesting pattern to be featured in their upcoming book. I submitted a mixture of old and new photographs and tried to convey different colours, textures and moods in my selection.