Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design

Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design

by Khristian Howell
Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design

Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design

by Khristian Howell

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Overview

Do you have a passion for patterns? The importance and prevalence of both color and pattern in the current design landscape is impossible to deny. Not only is pattern a headliner in the fashion category, but bold pattern is also taking center stage in home decor, paper goods, and accessories like no other time in recent history. It's time to jump onto the scene with Color + Pattern! Masterful pattern designer Khristian A. Howell will fill you with confidence and a fearless use of color and an interest in all things pattern, so you can create your own beautiful art that can be printed on fabrics, paper, and transfers. Fully illustrated with a large and varied range of pattern designs, Color + Pattern highlights leaders in the industry, showcasing how pattern design comes to life when it finds its way onto perfectly paired products. Aside from sharing loads of gorgeous work, Color + Pattern informs readers on the many different kinds of patterns and terminology, exploring found patterns, sharing processes of creating patterns, as well as showing ways to integrate pattern into many facets of real life with 50 exercises. After all color and pattern are meant to be fun, so design, color and repeat!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781627883603
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Publication date: 07/15/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 49 MB
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About the Author

Khristian A. Howell is a color and pattern expert who fuses her eclectic range of styles into bold designs for product and spaces. She loves to play with ideas of hard and soft, light and dark, feminine and masculine to create depth and interest in her designs. It is the mastery of this push + pull that creates ease and balance in the work. Howell delivers color focused, modern work with a touch of romance and edge. Her work has been featured in ELLE DECOR, Real Simple, and HGTV Magazine. She contributes frequently to Better Homes and Gardens and Fox 32 Chicago. Clients include 3M, Land of Nod, and Blend Fabrics.

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