Over the past few months, Pattern Pulp has noticed more and more artists taking the sustainable highroad.  If you’re a creative person, the spark’s not going anywhere but recent material and budget restraints have forced designers to reinterpret their concepts and retool their executions.  Jo Meesters, a Dutch product designer with an eye for sophistication, is a master at breathing life into used materials. Green Oasis is an initiative that was brought about in an effort to incorporate greenery into public urban spaces.  Reworking 34 discarded wooden beams and 16 leftover blankets, another Meesters project entitled, Odds and Ends, is based on the idea of woven rejuvenation.  If these prototypes ever go mass, they’d be a seamless fit in Anthropologie’s home goods department.

Combining fabrication with jet cutting technology, Meesters’s approach to the traditional tabletop is quite stunning [...]

Most of us are too impatient to let ideas evolve overtime without overwatering them.  Christie Wright of Brooklyn, NY, embraces the idea of storytelling as a strategy for designing. “Building by Leaving,” one of her latest creative endeavours, embraces the idea of growth through location and experience.  Sewing rungs together from various fabric swatches, her ladder grows over time, accumulating new colors, shapes, and patterns.  In an effort to understand growth, escapism and personal history, Wright’s creation is reminicient of a modern day Rapunzel.

Julia Rothman is one of the most talented and original pattern designers in today’s marketplace.  I had the pleasure of catching up with her at “Design by the Book,” a collaborative event hosted by The New York Public Library and Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge.  Rothman has a the ability to beautify ordinary objects, using her unique style of illustration and layout to create whimsical repeats.  Her work has been featured in countless publications and dons home goods of every variety.  Check out our Q+A for a glimpse into her daily routine.

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PP: What websites do you generally start your day with-do you have a daily routine for news/blog/information consumption?

JR: Design Sponge, Print&Pattern, Poppytalk, Oh Joy!, The Post Family, Grain Edit always start my day. And the NYTimes for news of [...]