I’m very excited to introduce the newest member of the Pattern Pulp team. I’ll let you in on a little secret- I’ve been trying to get Valerie Gnaedig to contribute for over a year now and she’s finally given in to my badgering!

Gnaedig is a German-born, Brooklyn-based graphic designer with a background in digital, motion, and book design. She’s currently a Senior Designer at Big Spaceship, where she spends her days crafting websites and apps for mobile phones and tablets.

She recently co-designed a series of brass hardware, her first foray into product design; one of the pieces, a set of triangular-headed nails, is now available at select boutique retailers in New York and San Francisco. Valerie spends her free time sprucing up her new apartment; in one recent spree, she re-upholstered two footstools. Her weekly PP [...]

The holidays are around the corner and for those looking to give uniquely wrapped presents, the teams at Chirply and Colour Lovers are eager to provide a solution. Log in to upload patterns for a chance to have your designs printed and sold, or simply vote and/or order to get in on the action.

Premiere Vision is in full swing today and tomorrow at Nord Villepinte  in Paris. Textiles from near and far are on display, revealing a hint of what’s to come. Today we’re featuring the work of Piece of Chic, a youthful Belgium brand with a wide range of styles.

The latest collection incorporates digital themes, abstract geometrics,  asymmetrical photorealism and floral overlaps. Their mood is fun and worth checking out if you’re local.

Most creative professionals and designers encounter trademarks more often than they realize.  Despite this fact, it is surprising that many don’t know what a trademark is or why trademarks are important.  The purpose of this column is to introduce you to trademarks, provide a few tips for how to select and protect your trademarks, and clarify several misconceptions about trademarks that may help you avoid some common mistakes. Let’s get started…

A trademark can be any word, phrase, slogan, name, symbol, logo, design, or combination of those elements that is used to identify and distinguish one’s goods or services.  The most basic description of a trademark is that it is a product’s brand name. A trademark is different than a trade name, which is the name that a business trades under for commercial purposes.  A business’ trademark and trade name can be [...]

Good question!

I haven’t started competing blogs with the same name if that’s what you’re wondering…

So I take a lot of pictures, we all do. I’ve needed a faster, off-the-cuff solution for some time now, a place to store half-baked ideas and imagery in progress.

I’ve always loved Tumblr’s interface and shareability features, so I figured it’s time to experiment outside of WordPress and just use this domain as “Pattern Pulp Lite” or “Pattern Pulp on the Go”, if you will. Feel free to follow along, join the conversation, or post your own pics.

Thanks!

Shayna

So you just graduated and after experiencing the highest high, you’re in the lull of the next step. Rhode Island School of Design is hoping to inspire and direct their most recent alumni with a unique and inspiring package: The Artrepreneur Kit.

The kit includes a number of tools to help artists and designers present their portfolios, take credit card payments and market their work online – for example, a card reader made by Square, Inc. that plugs into a mobile phone and allows users to process credit card payments anywhere. Other goodies include a free trial with Behance’s new online portfolio site Prosite, an Action Journal and a discount with the file transfer site YouSendIt.

“With our Artrepreneur Kit, we are providing new grads with just a few of the online tools and resources that can help launch their [...]

Dwell‘s serving up a little pattern competition for all of you up and coming designers out there! Forwarded along by our good friend, Jaye Davis, it looks like Dwell and Lutron® are teaming up for a crowd-sourced experiment with the opportunity to win a nice deal of press and acclaim.

The Challenge: Create a pattern treatment that will seamlessly move with the treatment up and down, all the while maintaining fabric pleats. Get inspired by raucous mid-century prints, Knoll, Day, Eames- anyone! The grand prize winner’s pattern will become a standard offering in Lutron’s collection of fabrics. For more info, click here.

The Color Association of the US was founded in 1915 and has evolved into an extraordinarily valuable resource for anyone working with color (and long production timelines). Twice yearly, color professionals spanning nearly every industry join forces to forecast color decisions in the realm of brand identity, product, service, communications and spatial environments. Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of joining the team as a guest presenter and I can say without a doubt, it was an educational treat to meet the others, compare notes and nail down palettes. Thanks guys!

It’s hard not to appreciate other sites, services and artists that embrace repetition. Pattern People, a surface design studio founded by designers, Claudia Brown and Jessie Whipple Vickery does just that. Based in Portland, Oregon and London, the creative duo make designs using paint, ink, graphite, and pixels for a range of projects and products – from wrap-around residential murals to perfume and chocolate packaging. The patterns on their site are refreshing, vivid and youthful and range from commercial to experimental.

We’re excited to announce that they’ve just introduced a feature geared towards the DIY design crowd that lets users download free prints. These patterns can be recolored, customized, and rescaled for personal use. The prints include a range of styles from ikat interpretations to florals, conversationals and more. Check out their