The Little White Book Of Surface Pattern Designs

I am part of a great community of Surface Pattern Designers, most of whom are graduates of 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design', and it's just fantastic. There are always likeminded people around to give you advice, share competitions, ideas and help you find your way in the big wide design world!

Recently one of the members of the group had the fantastic idea of creating a visual directory of our work to share with the world and become a reference for people searching for Surface Pattern Designers.

Yesterday the directory, called The Little White Book Of Surface Pattern Designers, went live! See it here.

The directory was curated by Gill Eggleston and features so many talented designers! Do take a look!

 We each created a design featuring our contact details for our page in the directory, below is my design..

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013 // The Little White Book of Surface Pattern Designers

Doodle envelope

Sometimes I just really feel like scribbling away.. I'm working on a very hand drawn collection right now and have been drawing the motifs directly onto the computer using my wacom. So last night I did something rather backwards.. I drew the motifs I had been drawing on the screen, onto paper! A yummy brown paper envelope to be exact, and I was so amazed with the result!

I love the way the sketchy black lines look on the striped brown paper! I'm going to try and work this into a design somehow. It's amazing how something so simple can be so satisfying!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

I love post!

I love receiving things in the post! Particularly surprises but also pretty things that I have bought and then forget are coming!

On Saturday I found this lovely arrival in my letterbox! I bought these lovely kraft heart stickers from Knot & Bow on Etsy and it was so exciting to open them, the envelope was addressed beautifully and sealed with a gold heart sticker, and then inside there was a brown paper bag hand printed with Knot & Bow's logo, again sealed with a gold heart sticker.

It took a while to open as I admired each layer as I went along, and the product did not disappoint, the set of stickers were beautifully designed and packaged inside. Below are a few pictures of the wonderful packaging and stickers.









Now to find some good places to stick my beautiful stickers!