Cover Competition

Purple always gives people a feeling of mystery and nobility, and so does the purple tulip. Its flower language is “endless love, no regrets in this life,” symbolizing warm and lasting feelings, whether for lovers or friends. Therefore, I hope that this layered ocean of purple tulips can bring endless and tolerant love to everyone.

For clients who want to create a timeless look, Emanate is for them. The color palette consists of classical blues paired with ageless golden yellows. To create a visual harmony that will brighten any space, Emanate takes inspiration from shimmering golden lights on the backdrop of a night sky, providing a place where time and color are limitless.

My inspiration was the quaking aspen trees I saw when I visited Utah. I thought the way they climb the sides of mountains was so beautiful. The quaking aspen is actually a colony of biological cloned trees sharing a root system. These clones can stretch for miles, creating their own forests. I wanted to capture the way they crowd together, outnumbering all others in the forest.

This design was inspired by the work of Yayoi Kusama and her concept of “self-obliteration.” This is the idea of forgetting your identity and becoming one with the universe. I wanted to create a pattern that created the sense of being lost in a field of flowers and becoming one with that environment.

The inspiration for my print comes from the idea of tassels. While sometimes considered to be a small detail, tassels have the power to spruce up any home furnishing (pillows, blankets, curtains, chairs, etc). What fascinates me most about tassels, however, is the large quantity of individual threads it takes to create such a unique texture along with the physical explosion that comes from it. That is what I wanted to emphasize in my design: a soft and comforting firework.

This abstracted mountain print was part of a larger collection focused on the Japanese ideal of yin and yang. The collection entitled “Saints and Sinners” was split into two sections. These sections drew inspiration from symbolic elements within Japanese culture that represent both the positive and negative sides of life. This print in particular drew from the idea of the perfect circle, the balanced mountain, and the peaceful zen garden. The geometric lines represent the repetitive act of meditation much like that of a zen garden. The circles and mountain – like motifs demonstrate the balance that one can achieve through the process. The goal with this print was to take the identifiable Japanese motifs and translate them into a modern repeated pattern, to take the old and make it new.

I wanted to emulate artist Moe Brooker’s style by evoking a feeling of joy through color and movement. I used bright colors and quick brush-strokes to create a design with high energy that radiates a feeling of positivity.

This pattern was inspired by the feathered beauties that flew around my childhood home. While all the other kids had dogs and cats running around their homes, I had Australian cockatiels flying around. These birds hold a close place in my heart and will always be a symbol of comfort, happiness, and home.

This is a contemporary Aztec pattern inspired from the techno music. It is a euphoric themed print for a high energy environment.

This design was inspired by the beautiful movement of seaweed that’s created by the currents underwater. The elegant leafy collum builds up the fabric creating depth and space while the colors loosely interpret the reds and purple tones that can be found in certain aquatic plants.

This design was inspired by the weather patterns and mapping in everyday society. It represents humanity, nature, and community within it. This pattern is composed of a singular unit made from couching on a long arm quilting machine. By building up layers and layers, I was able to make my own textile through different dyed yarns. This is a story about everyday life and what we are granted with on a daily basis.

Jane Eyre

Ever since reading the book, Jane Eyre, I’ve been inspired by Charlotte Bronte’s novel. Every flower used in the design is mentioned within the book, and the birds are a reference to Jane as she often calls herself a bird of sort.

Bubble Leaves

The inspiration for this repeat pattern comes from learning to let the nuances of nature and the process of creating to show through in a design. I created mono-prints by rolling ink onto various sprigs and leaves and pressing them to paper, and one set stood out with the organic yet defined shapes. I then scanned in the image, inverted and filled the color and began rearranging the sprig to showcase the natural beauty of the mono-print that would not have been reached solely by drawing. The assignment for my screen-printing

class was to utilize only two colors for the design, so I also played around with stretching the values and dimension with a half-tone effect of two different sizes for both a shadow and lattice-work structural grid. The unit for repeat was printed out onto transparency paper and transferred

to my two 23″ x 36″ screens. I screen-printed the design by hand onto 4 yards of cotton poplin with 3.5×11 units with an additional colorway on 4 yards in reverse values of a light green and aqua.

Inspired by a handmade paper yarn Japanese Shifu Kimono, I noticed writing from the original paper was visible on the surface of the cloth. Thinking about this idea of hidden stories woven into fabric, I created a series that explored the transition of time and story telling through hand-dyed color gradations and complex, layered surfaces. In this sample I cut long orange yarn floats and used these tails to stuff the triangular pockets.

Although parts of the story have been hidden within the fabric, evidence of their existence is visible through the orange edges on the triangles.

Major: B.F.A. Fibers

This pattern design developed out of an interest in my environment, specifically the variety of visual information found on the exteriors of houses in Savannah, Georgia. Each home with an individual set of colors, quirks, and textures collaborate to convey an independent personality. When viewed as a community of homes, however, they nestle seamlessly together.

My focus was to capture these qualities by pulling elements from a mixture of the house exteriors and reimagine their interaction through a repeat pattern. These characteristics were then overlapped to evoke a similar experience of walking through the neighborhood streets of Savannah, Georgia.

Graffiti
The work is inspired from Australian aboriginal and graffiti art. It is a combination of the spontaneous line work of graffiti, and the patient and thought through process of painting with dots, as seen in aboriginal artworks. The colors are mainly drawn from aboriginal inspirations, but the shapes themselves represent the knotted futures of graffiti letters on walls. Together the two very different styles create an untraditional and visually intriguing pattern. Graffiti is a symbol of differences coming together and the melting pot of culture in today’s society.

Graffiti
The work is inspired from Australian aboriginal and graffiti art. It is a combination of the spontaneous line work of graffiti, and the patient and thought through process of painting with dots, as seen in aboriginal artworks. The colors are mainly drawn from aboriginal inspirations, but the shapes themselves represent the knotted futures of graffiti letters on walls. Together the two very different styles create an untraditional and visually intriguing pattern. Graffiti is a symbol of differences coming together and the melting pot of culture in today’s society.

Fibers Major