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Southerly Design Blog
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A Design Trend I Am Loving Right Now: Chinoiserie
Chinoiserie is a design trend I am loving right now. It loosely embraces and embodies East Asian artistic styles. This was a style of art and design that was actually developed in Europe (…)
![The Timeless Pattern that Never Goes Out of Style: Gingham](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b56f73e702b1a2a022fc6/1708751482202-25FT48U01S5CBTHWL7M7/BLOG+POST+Gingham-01.jpg)
The Timeless Pattern that Never Goes Out of Style: Gingham
Pattern designers keep up with trends in the market, but there are some types of patterns that never go out of style. They have a classic, timelessness and elegance that is useful in textile design (…)
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Mini Valentine’s Day Pattern Collection
My Mini Valentine’s Day Pattern Collection is filled with pink and red hues, florals, hearts, and little love notes. The Mini Pattern Collection features the prints: valentine floral toss, valentine hearts, valentine plaid, and valentine love letters.
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New Pattern: Pink, Yellow, and Orange Zinnias
Zinnias are one of my favorite cut flowers! My new pattern, Pink, Yellow, and Orange Zinnias is the pattern I am using in my new website redesign. This pattern is available in my Spoonflower shop (…)
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Mini Easter Pattern Collection
A mini Easter Pattern Collection featuring spring florals, Easter eggs, and chicks in pastel hues. The Easter Pattern Collection features the prints: spring floral toss, eggs and chicks, spring plaid, and Easter eggs. I love the pastel hues for spring!
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Mini St. Patrick's Day Pattern Collection
A Mini St. Patrick’s Day Pattern Collection featuring a lot of shamrocks, green florals, and rainbows. I love the all the green (…)
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Design Process in Adobe Illustrator: Inspiration to Illustration
I went to a strawberry patch when I was home this past summer and knew I wanted to design a whole pattern collection about the experience (…)
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Mini Halloween Pattern Collection
A mini Halloween Pattern Collection featuring cute ghosts, pumpkins, fall leaves, candy corn and a simple color palette! I added a few more ghosts to the collection (…)