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Natural Existence – Rose Anderson
These mesmerising natural world studies are the work of Bristol based artist Rose Sanderson. Patternbank love her use of colour and mixed media canvases, which can be anything from discarded book...
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Cara Barer – Bluring the Lines Between Objects, Sculpture and Photography
Cara Barer’s work raises questions about the evolution of the book. As Cara puts it “With the discarded books that I have acquired, I am attempting to blur the line between objects, sculpture, and...
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Mandy Pattullo – Jubilee Fever
Patternbank love these embroidered pieces by textile artist and printmaker Mandy Pattullo. Mandy works from her studio in Northumberland and runs some fabulous textile and printmaking workshops. We...
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Karen Horton – Stamp Collecting
An incredible collection of stamps from places such as Uruguay, Gemany, Ireland, Korea, New Zealand, Iran and Brazil has been curated by Karen Horton. We love the colours, textures, type and diverse...
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Mixed Media Botanical Prints – Michael Mew
Patternbank have been tracking Michael Mew’s work for some time now and thought we’d share to those who have not seen his stunning visuals. We love the energy of Mew’s mixed collage paintings, that...
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Beautifully Crafted Logos – BMD Design Studio, Bordeaux
With such a large amount of digitally enhanced work around at the moment, it’s incredibly refreshing to see graphics that have a hand-crafted flavour to them. BMD Designs is a graphic studio based in...
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Mysterious Assemblages – Eva Eun-Sil Han
Layering materials hides the original identity of photographs, transforming them into these mysterious, collaged assemblages. Flashes of colour, from found papers, add depth and contrast in the bold...
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Vintage U.S Airline Baggage Tickets – Vintage Inspiration
Vintage graphics are such a major source of inspiration for new design developments. Patternbank aims to deliver vintage print & graphics for direction and inspiration in layout, colour use and...
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Embroidered Wonderland – Laura Mckellar
Illustrator, photographer and graphic designer Laura Mckellar, has captivated Patternbank with her quirky 50’s style black and white photographs, embellished with colourful appliqué and embriodery....
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Vintage Graphics – Aviation Luggage Labels
Luggage labels are fascinating bits of history from the golden age of travel, roughly the 1900′s to 1960′s. During this time these labels were used by hotels and airlines as advertising and eagerly...
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Vintage American Memo Graphics – Field Notes X Aaron Draplin
Field notes goes vintage in this release of their 14th season limited edition book collection. Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin has been collecting these forgotten memo books for years, “rescuing...
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Elizabeth Lecourt – Les Robes Geographiques
Initially started as a series of sketches in 2002, Elizabeth Lecourt has developed ‘Les Robes Geographques’ into a collection of garments created from folded maps to represent the wearer’s habitat and...
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Première Vision + Indigo – Autumn/Winter 2013/14 – Print Trend Report Preview
[Update] Report now available Première Vision + Indigo – Autumn/Winter 2013/14 – Print Trend Report In this report we give you an early peek of four of our A/W 2013/14 print trends seen at the recent...
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Bases Loaded Series – Brian Lindstrom
The Bases Loaded Series is an exploration of conceptual graphic design and storytelling using American Baseball as the vehicle. The concepts are driven home with the relationship of text and image,...
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Jon Contino – Hand Drawn Lettering and Vintage Typographic Perfection
Patternbank have a major crush on Contino’s work and not surprisingly, he has garnered considerable attention for his unique approach to design utilising hand-drawn lettering and typographic...
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Vintage Beer Labels from Michigan
Brian Stechschulte is a photographer and writer who is totally absorbed in the world of beer as you can clearly see by this fantastic collection of pre 1980′s vintage beer labels from the US State of...
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Valerie Roybal – Vintage Collage
We are loving these collages by Valerie Roybal who currently lives and works in Albuquerque. Her work is primarily inspired by vintage, salvaged, and collected materials which she finds at flea...
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Martin O’Neill – Cut It Out Graphics
Patternbank offer graphic inspiration in the form of Martin O’Neil, with his old school approach to graphic design and illustration. For 15 years O’Neill has been experimenting with image making....
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Vintage Radio Tuning Dial Graphics – Indiana Radios
Antique and vintage graphics are such a wealth of inspiration for layout, typography and colour. The Patternbank team stumbled on these stunning antique radio tuning dial graphics and thought we’d...
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Eugène Séguy – Science and Textiles
Eugène Séguy (1890 – 1985) was a French entomologist who published many portfolios of illustrations and designs from the turn of the century to the 1930s who worked in both the Art Deco and Art...
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