Feature Friday - Joanne Hawker

Today's Featured Friday Designer is.. Joanne Hawker

I just adore Joanne's use of colour and fantastic illustrations so am honoured to share her work on the blog today! I'll let Joanne do the talking..

Hello!

My name is Joanne Hawker and I live in a little corner of Somerset where I doodle, day dream about adventures in new countries and generally just make pretty things. I graduated from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2010 with a first class honours degree in Graphic Communication.

I have a huge passion for design, illustration and surface pattern. A lot of my work features elements from the natural world as I find it hugely inspiring! Most of my work starts life as a doodle before it is inked up, scanned and then redrawn digitally.

 I have an etsy shop where you can buy various prints of some my illustrations or typographic, some of which can be personalised. In the near future you may see some of my patterns above on a few new things! Fingers crossed!

You can find me all across the web in various nooks and crannies.

Portfolio: www.joannehawker.co.uk

Blog: www.origamichicken.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/joannehawkerdesignandillustration

Twitter: @joannehawker

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/joannehawker

Images copyright Joanne Hawker 2013

Spoonflower & Mollie Makes

This week the Spoonflower weekly contest 'Flights of Fancy' is sponsored by the brilliant UK craft magazine Mollie Makes. The task was to create a bird of flight-related fabric design (repeating) that used a restricted colour palette (grey, light teal, apple green and pale yellow).

Mollie Makes are planning to use the winning fabric in a photo for the cover of Issue 26 of Mollie Makes on sale April 2013, how cool is that? You can vote here!

So without further ado here is my design, Hummingbird Heaven. There are some amazing entries this week so it will be a very tough contest and I would love it if you like my design if you could take a moment to vote for it!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012