Showing posts with label mod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mod. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Retro Tables + Chairs for Spoonflower!

This week Spoonflower asked their faithful designers to create a design that features tables and chairs.
Retro Tables + Chairs! ©2014 Patty Rybolt Design. All Rights Reserved.



For this prompt I didn't even have to think…I am just drawn to mid-century modern chairs.

I researched photo's of chairs from that era and sketched about 25 different styles before narrowing the field to the final five. The color palette was chosen next... olive, smokey blue and white. When designing fabric, I like the color story to be as important as the images. The olive color really reminds me of a sofa and the appliances my parents had when I was a kid, and the blue was chosen to bring this retro design into today. The white allows you to see the unique shapes of the chairs and to unify their look. If I had put patterns on all of the chairs, it would have looked too busy.
The next step was to arrange the elements into a pleasing pattern and add a pop of color with the tulip flowers in a vase. Finally the dot pattern was added to give some texture to the piece.

Voting starts on Thursday, September 25rd, 2014. Please Vote!

Thursday, May 30, 2013

'Mod Wallpaper 194'

With the retro vibe being hot right now, 'Mod Wallpaper' was the theme for designers the week of May 23-30. The description of the contest was...'Mod Wallpaper designs influenced by the modernist subculture of the late 1950s and early 1960s'.
My approach was, as always, to do some research on this design movement and try to come up with a direction for this design. Most of what I saw online was fun and funky and displayed varying color schemes. I did lots of sketches in pen and ink, and on my ipad(my favorite app for drawing is Adobe Ideas), and drew them into many patterns and ultimately decided on this one...
This is my 'Mod Wallpaper 194'...


 'ModWallpaper 194' ©2013 Patty Rybolt Designs