Founded in 2015, Jade offers an eye-catching range of hand-drawn designs that celebrate the fascinating plants and animals living on our planet. By celebrating the shapes, forms, patterns, textures, and colors prevalent in our natural environment, she hopes to restore our affinity with nature.

“I hand draw all my designs, which creates quite a personal feel to my designs,” she relays the creative process in an interview with Jung Katz. “I then apply color (which is generally quite bold) and edit these hand-drawn images digitally using photoshop.” According to Jade, she enjoys combining hand drawings with digital design, to create her eye-popping repeated patterns. “My work is quite detailed and I generally use a pencil to create my patterns, however, I do enjoy combining pencil and paint, as I feel these two mediums create quite unique pattern designs,” she explains.

Inspired by plants, foliage, flowers, animals, she’s also fond of geometric prints and also designs that are inspired by natural textures. Fashion is another huge inspiration for Jade, as she loves keeping up to date with styles from the runway and current fashion trends. 

Her luxury design collections are available on wallpaper, textiles, upholstery fabrics, furniture, cushions, ceramic tiles, and flooring, with all products printed and made in the UK. Here are some of our favorites:

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The former child actress received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Art Studies from the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. But it was only after she worked with potter and designer Jonathan Adler that Zaremba realized her true love was interior design.

“My focus in art school was textiles, but I’ve always been a paper person,” she shared with the Urban Outfitters blog. “So as I was learning surface design and weaving I was also creating sculptures and installations out of cut paper. I went on to work for Jonathan Adler who is a master of interiors. The unique and storied objects he creates continue to inspire me. Wallpaper seemed like a melding of my life experiences, I want to make things that enliven a space, that provide creative energy and inspiration for its inhabitants.”

Zaremba now works from her two studios in Austin, TX and Washington, DC. “An idea for a pattern can really pop up out of nowhere or sometimes it’s in a museum looking at works of art or it might come out of playful experimentation in my studio,” she went on to say. “You can’t force the creative process so I always have multiple things in the works. Some designs take longer than others and some are formed in a momentary sketch.”

Prepare to fall in love.

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Each of Lauren’s designs are drawn by hand and transferred to a rubber or linoleum block. The design is carved into the block and the block is inked and printed by hand. Then it is scanned and edited on a computer in her home studio. 

“I do keep a number of different sketchbooks but they are often very rough ideas for the finished pieces,” she says, talking about her creative process with the Fishink blog. “Sometimes they are ideas or themes. Sometimes sketches giving a general guide for composition. Imagining an idea as a relief print has become fairly fluent for me in the last year of concentrated practice. Sketchbooks for me are also a great way to remember and revisit thematic material which was completed earlier in my development and needs another go.”

Talking about her connection with nature, she said that “being connected is an overarching motivation for me as a person as well as in my work. It is easy to see how disconnected one can become with the technology available, but without respecting and acknowledging the incredible natural world it would be a much less rewarding life to live.”

When she isn’t printmaking in her studio, she enjoys taking walks to watch birds or simply enjoy nature. But she also loves spending time with her husband, son, and two cats. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.

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“I had always adored patterns,” she shared with Ballpit Magazine, explaining that she had been sewing her own clothes from an early age, and was obsessed with wallpaper. “I decided to take a creative sabbatical in Berlin, to give myself the time to play around and see what happened,” she recalled. “A few months later I returned to Toronto with a portfolio of patterns and a fire in my heart. Now, I create patterns and illustrations and license them out for all sorts of different products, like bedding, rugs, pillows, aprons, floor tiles, stationery, fabric and so much more. That’s one of the things I love most about what I do — I never know what new kind of product collaboration is around the corner.”

Describing her wors as “fresh, whimsical, organic yet graphic, graceful and modern, with a nod to days gone by”, her patterns are often floral or based on nature, a celebration of the strange and beautiful world we live in. “Sometimes my work is incredibly minimal and simple, other times, quite complex,” she relays. “I like to bury little hidden treasures in my work, little details that you only notice when you’ve taken time to really look at them.”

“Art has the potential to really move people, and therefore, I find art is full of hope,” she says. “And on a far more superficial level, art just brings beauty to the everyday… and I feel we need that now more than ever.”

Her work, driven by what she calls “the desire to leave something beautiful behind”, is printed on a varied assortment of products from decor to paper to fabric to bedding. Check out some of her intricate patterns in the gallery below.

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Founded in 2015, Jade offers an eye-catching range of hand-drawn designs that celebrate the fascinating plants and animals living on our planet. By celebrating the shapes, forms, patterns, textures, and colors prevalent in our natural environment, she hopes to restore our affinity with nature.

“I hand draw all my designs, which creates quite a personal feel to my designs,” she relays the creative process in an interview with Jung Katz. “I then apply color (which is generally quite bold) and edit these hand-drawn images digitally using photoshop.” According to Jade, she enjoys combining hand drawings with digital design, to create her eye-popping repeated patterns. “My work is quite detailed and I generally use a pencil to create my patterns, however, I do enjoy combining pencil and paint, as I feel these two mediums create quite unique pattern designs,” she explains.

Inspired by plants, foliage, flowers, animals, she’s also fond of geometric prints and also designs that are inspired by natural textures. Fashion is another huge inspiration for Jade, as she loves keeping up to date with styles from the runway and current fashion trends. 

Her luxury design collections are available on wallpaper, textiles, upholstery fabrics, furniture, cushions, ceramic tiles, and flooring, with all products printed and made in the UK. Here are some of our favorites:

The post We Sense a Pattern with Charlotte Jade’s Designs appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The former child actress received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Art Studies from the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. But it was only after she worked with potter and designer Jonathan Adler that Zaremba realized her true love was interior design.

“My focus in art school was textiles, but I’ve always been a paper person,” she shared with the Urban Outfitters blog. “So as I was learning surface design and weaving I was also creating sculptures and installations out of cut paper. I went on to work for Jonathan Adler who is a master of interiors. The unique and storied objects he creates continue to inspire me. Wallpaper seemed like a melding of my life experiences, I want to make things that enliven a space, that provide creative energy and inspiration for its inhabitants.”

Zaremba now works from her two studios in Austin, TX and Washington, DC. “An idea for a pattern can really pop up out of nowhere or sometimes it’s in a museum looking at works of art or it might come out of playful experimentation in my studio,” she went on to say. “You can’t force the creative process so I always have multiple things in the works. Some designs take longer than others and some are formed in a momentary sketch.”

Prepare to fall in love.

The post From Basic to Artistic: These Wallpapers Will Elevate Your House appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Each of Lauren’s designs are drawn by hand and transferred to a rubber or linoleum block. The design is carved into the block and the block is inked and printed by hand. Then it is scanned and edited on a computer in her home studio. 

“I do keep a number of different sketchbooks but they are often very rough ideas for the finished pieces,” she says, talking about her creative process with the Fishink blog. “Sometimes they are ideas or themes. Sometimes sketches giving a general guide for composition. Imagining an idea as a relief print has become fairly fluent for me in the last year of concentrated practice. Sketchbooks for me are also a great way to remember and revisit thematic material which was completed earlier in my development and needs another go.”

Talking about her connection with nature, she said that “being connected is an overarching motivation for me as a person as well as in my work. It is easy to see how disconnected one can become with the technology available, but without respecting and acknowledging the incredible natural world it would be a much less rewarding life to live.”

When she isn’t printmaking in her studio, she enjoys taking walks to watch birds or simply enjoy nature. But she also loves spending time with her husband, son, and two cats. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Printmaker Makes Wonderful Designs That are Inspired by Nature appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I had always adored patterns,” she shared with Ballpit Magazine, explaining that she had been sewing her own clothes from an early age, and was obsessed with wallpaper. “I decided to take a creative sabbatical in Berlin, to give myself the time to play around and see what happened,” she recalled. “A few months later I returned to Toronto with a portfolio of patterns and a fire in my heart. Now, I create patterns and illustrations and license them out for all sorts of different products, like bedding, rugs, pillows, aprons, floor tiles, stationery, fabric and so much more. That’s one of the things I love most about what I do — I never know what new kind of product collaboration is around the corner.”

Describing her wors as “fresh, whimsical, organic yet graphic, graceful and modern, with a nod to days gone by”, her patterns are often floral or based on nature, a celebration of the strange and beautiful world we live in. “Sometimes my work is incredibly minimal and simple, other times, quite complex,” she relays. “I like to bury little hidden treasures in my work, little details that you only notice when you’ve taken time to really look at them.”

“Art has the potential to really move people, and therefore, I find art is full of hope,” she says. “And on a far more superficial level, art just brings beauty to the everyday… and I feel we need that now more than ever.”

Her work, driven by what she calls “the desire to leave something beautiful behind”, is printed on a varied assortment of products from decor to paper to fabric to bedding. Check out some of her intricate patterns in the gallery below.

The post Elizabeth Olwen Covers the World Around Her in Patterns appeared first on PlayJunkie.