Limited Edition Kleenex Box Design Contest

Today I'm sharing with you my design for the Kleenex box design contest. Kleenex teamed up with design expert Kelly Hoppen MBE and invited artists and designers to create fashionable, unique and innovative box designs for the chance to see them on-shelf as one of three boxes available to buy in the Autumn/Winter design refresh.

Kelly Hoppen shared key interior trends for the season and I focused my design around royal purples, reds and oranges with an on-trend IKAT design. (seen below)

Now I need your help, if you like my design PLEASE vote for it! I would love to see my design on-shelf! You can vote here. Thank you in advance!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Tigerprint - Male Pattern Competition Entries

I recently worked on entries for the latest Tigerprint competition, Male Pattern. The brief was to design a contemporary print pattern for a male recipient that could be used across a range of products such as gift bags, wrapping paper, stationery products and greetings cards. Male design tends to be very tricky and not something I do often so I wanted to challenge myself.

I chose an urban theme working with city skylines and a colour palette that works for men of different ages. 

 Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Tigerprint Lovely Days Competition

Today I am sharing with you a few new designs I worked on recently for the Tigerprint 'Lovely Days' competition

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

New design - Ideal Homes Wallpapered Competition

Today I am sharing a new design I created recently for the Ideal Homes Wallpapered Competition.

As the print is designed for wallpaper it works best at a large scale where you can see all the detail and texture

I'm really pleased with this design and would love to actually have it as wallpaper! I hope to have it available as wallpaper (perhaps through Spoonflower) in the future!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Buttercup China Competition

Another day.. another competition! This time I have submitted a design for the Buttercup China competition. The winner will have their design printed on Buttercup China mugs, so the brief was to create something that would sell well on mugs around the country. I designed a bright floral piece with coordinating purple handle.

If you like my design please give it a little like on Facebook here!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Tigerprint Spots and Stripes contest

Well hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed the blog hop! Weren't everyone's designs fantastic? If you haven't checked out the blog hop yet, you can visit it, here!

Just a quick post today to share with you some new designs I made for the latest Tigerprint contest; Spots and Stripes. The brief was to make surface patterns with a fresh takes on spots and stripes using SS14 colours.

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Tigerprint Hand Drawn Typography Competition

I recently submitted some designs into the Tigerprint Hand Drawn Typography Competition

I hand drew the type and illustrations and then scanned them in and developed them in Illustrator.

Below are my 5 entries each using a different phrase, colour palette and style. I had so much fun working on this project, I don't often hand draw pieces with a pen on paper and this particular style of typography and illustrations is something I used to do a lot when I was at college.

It felt like getting back to my roots and I have now drawn even more pieces which I hope to develop and share soon! I may even sell the designs as prints if people would like to buy them!

You can see the designs on the Tigerprint website here.. 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Black & White Floral

Today I am sharing with you a design I did a few weeks back for the Tigerprint Black & White print competition.

Image copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Spoonflower 2013 Tea Towel Calendars

You can currently vote in this weeks Spoonflower contest '2013 Tea Towel Calendars'

I just voted and here are my choices. There are some really fantastic entries this year! 12 whole pages infact!

Designers (left to right, top to bottom) 1. Outside Flowers by Melisza, 2. Succulent 2013 Tea Towel Calendar by EmilyAnn, 3. 2013 Flowery Tea Towel Calendar by doris&fred, 4. A foxy delight by JLW Illustration, 5. 2013 Calendar by Amel24, 6. Tea towel by holly_akkerman, 7. kokeshina 2013 by made_in_shina, 8. 2013 wildflowers tea towel by cjldesigns, 9. 2013 pretty tree calendar by sonny&bee, 10. tea party essentials 2013 calendar by muymajobv, 11. flowers calendar by la_nonna_aida, 12. kind thoughts tea towel calendar by licoricelove, 13. home blue by stacyiesthsu, 14. Seasons 2013 tea towel calendar by addilou, 15. 2013 retro calendar by ottomanbrim.