Emily Tobias

This was one of my favorite assignments… we built on the b&w patterns from last week and launched into color. These are some of my creations.

I love making patterns! I was soooo excited for this assignment! Enjoy my first round of B&W patterns:

I am obsessed with repeating patterns! I have been eagerly awaiting this assignment! so here are some pictures of found patterns I had in the house and of some famous ones from the internet.

1. Bolt 44 is a cool textile website, and it is affordable as well!

2. French Paper is one of my favorite companies ever… they package things so well, and they give away amazing posters and sample books.  This pattern is from one of their sample books.

3. House Industries is a super cool type foundry… this is the front and back cover of one of their type sample books… neat typographic pattern!

4. Ikea sells some amazing textiles… I had this in the house and I threw it on the scanner!

5-7. The next three are some beautiful paper that I bought at Pearl River down in SoHo.

8. Josef Frank is a famous pattern designer… here is one of his

9. I know I have blogged about Marimekko in the past but for me they are the best!

10-11. Lastly, I have two samples of patterns by another famous artist, Stig Lindberg

I am surprised that it has taken me so long to mention my all-time favorite magazine, but I was flipping through some of my Wired magazines yesterday and I noticed this page. I love how the designer created this pattern – using triangles, to produce such an eye-catching page! OK, so I was reading the fine print on the bottom of the page and it says that this design is a video still, even cooler! Plus, it is violet!

Here is a link to Carl DeTorres’ webpage showing the design both in print and ipad form.

I have grown up sailing. In my family we never had a summer house, or belonged to a pool, but we do have a boat. Icefire is a 34-foot Tartan that I have spent countless weekend adventures on. When I saw that designer Marian Bantjes had teamed with Laser to design her own version of the classic sailboat, I had to post the photos.

Here is a link to the post about it on Banjtes’ website.