Oil Inspirationist :: Harold Hollingsworth

Seattle oil evokateur, Harold Hollingsworth, captures a swirling Retro style in his unique paintings. These large-scale canvases capture movement and depth while encompassing fragments of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s design styles.

Geometric :: Pattern Fonts

Containing 100 geometric pattern fonts for Mac and Windows, Geometric is a book which gives designers a mountain of resource material. The book comes with a CD containing the 100 pattern fonts – the most extensive pattern font collection available…

Pixelated Pop

Artist & designer Cristian Zuzunaga, a Barcelona-born artist & designer, captures sheer imagination in his pixelated fabric prints, clothing designs and architecural influenced pixel-pop prints.

Everything Old Is New

Created in-house, the new Antropologie Home Catalog features a clever retro-scrapbook look. As evidenced by current trends of design and marketing today, the use of retro-colors and fabric patterns seem right at home on this home catalog site.

Felted Objects At Cooper-Hewitt

from March 6 – September 7, 2009, the Cooper-Hewitt features the “Fashion Felt” exhibition containing incredible & beautiful felted objects from a traditional yurt (a trellis-frame tent covered with thick, humble felts made from raw sheep’s wool) to felted rocks…

Shepard Fairey In Japanese

I have a passion for, and am intrigued by, textile designs. Their repetitive nature of creation is so similar to techniques found in web background images. Shepard Fairey has an interesting selection of prints based on fabric patterns, including this…

Pattern Minutia

Whoda thunkit? Someone has developed more creative patterns for use on the inside of “security envelopes.” I live for this stuff!