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Rosie Maddocks

  © Rosie Maddocks

  Winning entry for Christmas surface pattern and icon design.

© Rosie Maddocks

Rosie was the winner of our recent competition for Christmas surface pattern & icon design with the allover print featuring lots of cute gingerbread men and other baking objects. 

"I love baking myself, and thought it would be nice to have a fun Christmas design which features lots of little gingerbread shapes and cakes etc. I tried to incorporate lots of different elements to make it more interesting. I thought the colour palette would work well for my idea too".

Name: Rosie Maddocks

Blog link:  http://rosiemaddocks.blogspot.com/

Website link: just working on getting a website at the moment

University: Manchester Metropolitan University

Course: BA (hons) Textiles

Current Occupation: Freelance textiles/ surface pattern designer

What three to five words would you use to describe your work?

fun, quirky, naive

What are the inspirations/ influences for your design work?

Everything inspires me, I live in quite a rural spot, so I love the changing seasons. I love to draw trees, flowers and birds. I love looking round shops, reading magazines and books for children, these things help me a lot in designing for Children.

What was your first job and how did you know you wanted to work in design?

My first real design job was for a company called Mafatlal designing fashion prints.

I have always loved drawing, and my aunt is a textile designer, I used to look at her work and think 'I want to do that!'

 

Which design blogs, books or designers etc can you not live without?

I look at the Print Pattern blog a lot. I love the work of Jill Macdonald and Amy Schimler. I love the beautiful colour and painterly style of Tricia Guild. I go to the library a lot and love looking at beautifully illustrated children's books.

The future, what are your next plans?

At the moment I have been working part-time to fit in with my young children, but I'm gradually beginning to work more. I want to just carry on doing more design work for Bedding, stationery kitchenware etc. I'd like to design a range of prints and cards and perhaps sell them online. I'd love to illustrate a children's book. As long as I'm drawing I'm happy!!!

 

What mediums do you work with?

I work digitally most of the time. Although, I've just bought a lino-cutting set, and I'm going to have a go at some printing!  

What is your favourite medium?

I work with illustrator and photoshop, and I'm quite comfortable working digitally now.

Make sure you check out Rosie's blog to find out more about her work.

 

Mother's Day Classic Design - 1 week remaining

 There is now one week remaining for you to submit your designs for the Mother's Day Classic competition.

Deadline: Midnight (GMT) Thursday 2nd December 2010.

Good luck!

Liverpool Design Festival

If your in Liverpool this week then check out the Design Festival which is hosting an array of events which you can find out more about here.

Dale Simpson

© Dale Simpson

Dale is a freelance illustrator based in the beautiful land that is Scotland. Dale's work covers a wide range of areas including greeting card design, license, publishing and editorial.

The Christmas stocking illustration above was recently crowned runner up in our Christmas surface pattern and icon design competition which was Dale's first Tigerprint competition.

Check out Dale's website and blog to find out more.

Mae

Copyright © Mae Pty Ltd

Copyright © Mae Pty Ltd

Australian "Mae is the lovechild of Peta, Bec and Emily. Brought together by a mutual love of sweet, whimsical designs and the desire to create a working life that complimented their personal lives".

Mae’s delightful fabric wall stickers are designed with children in mind and even more brilliantly they are more than happy to be moved around - and scrunched up, smoothed out and rearranged again and again. Even if you don't have children you will find yourself looking at these delightful wall stickers and planning where they can live in your home.

As well as these beautiful fabric wall stickers Mae will soon be launching there very own wrapping paper which we are sure will be as equally divine and a must have! (You can now download a selection for Christmas for free to wrap up beautifully this years gifts).

Check out the website for many more beautiful illustrations and also the blog which as well as featuring Mae updates also very kindly shares there latest finds.

 

Enjoy!

 

Christmas Surface Pattern & Icon Design Competition - Results

  By RosieM

Apologies for the delay in announcing the results for the recent Christmas surface pattern and icon design competition but the wait is finally over.

 

The judges have selected the entry above by RosieM as the overall winner.

This fun and nostalgic design captures a sense of ‘home’ and the spirit of Christmas. It is very commercial and on trend for Christmas 2011 and presents a cute, fun and quirky design.

Congratulations RosieM.

 

The runners up are as follows:

  By Dale

  Dale’s entry is bright but with a clever use of a classic Christmas colour palette which is   complimented by the lovely painterly style. The overall design has a very fun feel about it and fits the criteria of been a very Christmassy and commercial design with a broad appeal.

Great work Dale.

  By Emily Marie Cox

  Emily’s design offers a refreshing style for a bauble wrap with the nice introduction of branches to give the design a setting. A lovely nostalgic feel to this design with an interesting colour palette.

Well-done Emily.

  By Liz Smith

This snowflake design is a beautiful and intricate design, which captures the delicate and hand drawn quality. The design is very commercial and on trend for Christmas 2011.

Well-done Liz.

  By Lizzyh

Lizzyh has used a nice technique here to capture a Scandinavian knit effect. The colour palette used is beautiful and there is a nice choice of imagery used.

Great design.

 

There were lots of great designs that have clearly taken into consideration the Marks & Spencer customer and the Christmas trends. There are lots of fresh and unique styles covering a wide range of disciplines.

 

Thank you to everyone that took part and don’t forget to check out our latest competition, Classic Mother’s Day.

 

Enjoy your weekend!

New Competition: Mother's Day Classic Design

  

The latest competition has just been launched and it is to design a classic Mother's Day card for Spring 2012.

Why not check out the full brief now here.

Thank you to everyone who entered the Christmas surface pattern and icon design competition which is now closed for entries. Judging will shortly commence and the results announced next week.

Good luck!!

Last day for Christmas Surface Pattern and Icon Design Competition

There is now only one day remaining for you to enter the Christmas Surface Pattern and Icon Design Competition which will close for entries today (Wednesday 3rd November) at midnight (GMT).

You can check out the brief here to see what you have to do to be in with a chance of winning £200 plus the chance to see your card in print. In addition you can see all the entries so far here.

Thank you to everyone who has entered so far and good luck!