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This is a my final post on Christmas designs for 2016. (Although I do have something different to share tomorrow for P&Ps final post.) But for now we round off this current holiday season with a last look at some fab festive designs. We begin with The Art File where this colourful Christmas Tree pattern on cards and wrap was one of my absolute faves this year. Below : Two gorgeous

Manuela Lima is a designer based in Rio de Janeiro. Manuela has experience working with illustrations, for various types of destinations including stationery, cards, prints for clothes and furnishings. She is in the last year of architecture school, then intends to work with illustration and turn her passion fir interior decoration and incorporate it into her work. Manuela likes to mix with

Jennifer Nelson Artists have taken on three terrific new designers to add to their agency. This first is Kelly Angelovic. Kelly specialises in surface pattern design, lettering, and illustration. She studied Graphic Design in Seattle and is now based in Colarado. Next we have Rae Ritchie who started her career creating designing accessories for women and children. But a love of pattern, print

Graphic designer Lonneke de Roos is the owner of a creative studio named KIND OF STYLE  based in Den Bosch in The Netherlands. Lonneke has created a range of patterns which she sells as fabrics on Spoonflower, and on products such as phone cases and cards at Society6. Her portfolio is also available for licensing and she is open to commissions. Find out more or get in touch via her website KIND

I am so pleased to have another mega talented designer joining the P&P 'Designers for Hire' Directory this week. Carolyn Suzuki is based in Los Angeles where she loves to draw and paint. She has a real zest for life which she hopes comes over in her colourful, exuberant and sometimes whimsical work. Carolyn has owned a successful greeting card business for the past five years, selling her wares

These super cute illustrations are all the work of designer Karen Thaco. Karen is originally from Texas, but has lived in Mexico since childhood. Now curiosity has brought her back in Texas she is working as a freelance designer with a passion for graphics and children's design. Karen loves designing patterns, cards, paper, postcards, educational materials and gifts. She is always ready to work

The Print & Pattern Designers for Hire Directory has a new artist to introduce this week. Hollie Holden is predominantly a childrenswear designer, having previously worked at JoJo Maman Bebe as Senior Designer for 3 years and as a childrens nightwear & underwear print designer for a UK based supplier for a number of years prior to that. Hollie now lives in Vancouver, Canada working as a

Shannon Hays is a graphic designer and illustrator based in New Hampshire, USA. She is endlessly inspired by children, animals and nature and happily spends her days drawing cute characters and creating whimsical patterns. A past recipient of Print & Pattern’s Scholarship to the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, Shannon currently has collaborations with Design House Greetings, Great

It is that time of year again and the 2017 Print & Pattern/ Make it in Design Scholarship is now launching. You could win an online design course worth over £1280. Are you an emerging designer ready to make it big in the surface pattern design world? This is an incredible opportunity to win a design scholarship that will help you on your way! Sponsored by Print & Pattern, the Make it in

 UK based artist Rachael Taylor has recently updated her portfolio to include lots of new designs, some of which I am lucky enough to be able to showcase here, Rachael is open to new licensing opportunities and design commissions and can be found online here.

Sonja Reyle is a designer based in Germany. She studied textile design at the UDK in Berlin and went on to run her own silk screen studio for many years. Sonja has just recently gone back to freelance design and last year sold a few of her pattern designs to the German fabric company, Westfalenstoffe. Here are some examples of Sonja's pattern design and you can see more or get in touch via her

Today's P&P posts focus on strong graphics - starting with the work of Sydney based artist Kate Banazi. Originally from London Kate studied at the prestigious art school 'Central St. Martins'. She creates striking screen printed works and collages featuring geometric shapes and lines that give an optical illusion of depth. In 2016, Kate was one of twelve artists, designers and architects

Kat Uno is an illustrator based in Hawaii. After working for about 6 years as a graphic designer for a government agency Kat decided to strike out on her own in 2015. She is currently represented by the Astound Agency and has been illustrating books for going on 2 years. Although her agency work is her bread and butter, Kat also really loves designing cute characters and patterns. You can find

Feena Brooks is a London based surface pattern designer who originally trained in Fine Art and has 16 years experience as an artist/designer/illustrator. Over the last year Feena has been focusing on designing patterns and building her surface pattern design portfolio. She completed Module 1&2 of the ABSPD courses, and won a place on their Ultimate Portfolio builder course through their

Our second designer today is London based Jason Ansell who worked in Fashion for 15 years creating womenswear for the high end and high street. But for the last 2 years Jason has been busy redirecting himself towards his love of illustration. He has taken MATS (Make Art That Sells) classes and has been busy building up a portfolio. Here are some lovely examples that show Jason's style and he is

Stephani Stilwell is a US based designer who studied for a BFA in Illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Steph works as a freelancer and creates illustrations for editorial to narrative, hand-lettering and food illustration. But her true passion is for pattern design. She likes to inject jokes and humour into her work and previous clients have included American Greetings. 

Designer Emily Emerson specialises in whimsical design and illustration for children. Emily has created a new pattern collection for licensing on fabrics, stationery etc. called 'Dream Circus'. In lovely soft colours it features friendly animals that any young child or baby would love. Anyone interested in the designs can contact Emily via her website here.

Kirsten Sevig is an artist /designer/ illustrator/ pattern painter based in Minneapolis, MN where she works in a stripey studio that she has dubbed the 'Striped Pear Studio'. Kirsten loves creating patterns and products and has recently designed and produced a couple of notecard sets for her new Striped Pear Studio brand. Featuring her lovely hand painted patterns they are now available in her

Today we are lucky enough to see some brand new artwork from artist Jennifer Orkin Lewis. They form part of a collection of fresh work that uses dark backgrounds, and can be seen on Jennifer's Instagram page August Wren where she shares all of her sketchbook paintings. She is represented by Jennifer Nelson Artists and these works and more will be available for licensing. In September Jennifer

Another studio showing at Blueprint in New York are Pomelo and Pomelo who will be there with 17 other fantastic studios for the 3 day show (8th-10th August). Abby Zweiful and Sarah Watson have been creating loads of new seasonal art to showcase at the 4th Blueprint this August. It is not all baubles and pine cones, there will also be plenty of geometrics. florals. and unique illustrations

After seeing a Jenn Ski newsletter recently I realised it had been a while since I had posted what she has been up to lately. Jenn has long been an expert and champion of mid century pattern and some of her latest work is bold, colourful and as you would expect beautifully retro in feel. Jenn sells her artworks on Etsy and is represented for licensing by Lilla Rogers where her clients have

Helene-Marie Gilmour is a freelance Designer and Illustrator from the UK. After working in the design industry for over fifteen years Helene-Marie decided to go it alone two years ago and says she has never looked back! Alongside her freelance work, Helene-Marie has also been developing her own collection of  patterns for textiles which will hopefully extend into other products in the future.

Courtney-Beth Keller of One Little Print Shop has designed some brand new florals and is sharing them with us today. They created after Courtney's first Surtex showing with the Finch & Foxglove art collective. All were all first-timers who seemed to get a good response at the show and came away with lots of contacts and interest. Courtney is still very new to the licensing world and anyone

These designs are the work of Emily Kelley an illustrator from Pennsylvania, USA who works under the name Land & She. Emily's work is inspired by a wandering spirit and the environment. She uses a lot of hand drawn patterns in her work which brings a personal and handmade element into each piece. Emily hopes to inspire people who view her work to "Adventure to new places and have an

Bianca Pozzi is a designer from Brazil. Bianca graduated in Fashion Design and worked as an in-house textile designer for a couple of years. She now works as a Freelance Illustrator and Surface Pattern Designer creating prints for fabrics, stationery etc. She loves to work with gouache and watercolours and believes in drawing everyday to practice and evolve her style. Bianca welcomes