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magic boxJune 23, 2010
Our Spoonflower Fabrics have arrived!
Take a look at our first test with printing patterns on Fabric using the Spoonflower online service. We’re really happy with the results. Tell us what you think!
All patterns have been made with Repper Pro and are based on the illustration “Kaleidoscopic” by Daniel Rossi.
All based on this illustration
Kaleidoscopic by Daniel Rossi
About Repper Pro
Repper Pro turns pattern-making into highly effective play. It offers smart features, packed into a clean interface for an incredibly low price.
Find out more about Repper Pro
About the artist
Daniel Rossi is an Eindhoven-based graphic designer and illustrator. He is originally from Canada. As he describes himself:
I don’t like to tag myself as anything in particular. Better said: I like boxes but not being put into one. This isn’t due to a lack of understanding about what it is I really do, but rather because above all I am lead by intuition. Being a graphic designer, come illustrator, artist who experiments in the tanglible world with furniture and interior spaces, I must rely on not one particular set of skills but many to carry out my work. Blurring the line between art and design is what helps me to achieve this. I believe that to fully explore a concept or idea one must build bridges and not barriers.
Spoonflower
Spoonflower is able to print any design you make with Repper. They have a variety of fabrics, including regular and organic cotton, linen-cotton and even exotics like bamboo-cotton. Prices range from 18 to 32 USD per yard (for metric-minded people: that’s about a square meter), with discount if you are the designer of the pattern.
June 8, 2010
Strijp-S Open Day 2010
Last Sunday (6th of June) Strijp-S opened its construction site soon-to-be creative hotspot for the people from Eindhoven. Strijp-S is already highly populated with creative dare-devils, but most of the time their efforts are hardly visible to the general public. This Open Day was aimed at giving Eindhoven a feel for what wondrous stuff is happening around here.
Little Mountain (the creative environment that studio:ludens is part of) also opened its doors and showed the wide variety of disciplines we have among us, including graphic design, product design, project management and architecture. Here is a short impression of the day. All photos can be found in the Open Day collection on Flickr.
Thanks to all visitors & mountaineers for a great day!
Busy, busy!
Look, it’s the upcoming studio:ludens intern crew! (Lotte & Henri)
With great grandeur, Hans is turning these kids into artists through his rock-painting masterclass
We themed the day “Fruitful” with tons of smoothy goodness
Patricia doing a little tour
Tips & Tricks for Repper Lite
Repper Lite is the best tool for quickly creating patterns for use in graphic design, as website backgrounds or for your social profile. However, there are some less know features of Repper Lite that are worth checking out.
Did you know:
you can go full screen?
Click on the + in the top right corner of the tool and click the ‘go full screen’ button. Press Escape to go back.
you can use your webcam to create funky effects?
Select video in the first menu. You have to allow Flash to use your webcam. Now you can create patterns from your room, face or anything else you can find directly. Want to pause the video? Click the button again.
you can set your twitter background directly?
Create a pattern you like and click the ‘Create Twitter background’ button. Fill in your Twitter username and password (don’t worry, we won’t store anything) and click ‘change now’ to update. It’s that easy!
you can use patterns created by others?
Over 100.000 patterns have been created so far. You can explore these patterns in the gallery.
Take a look at the tag cloud to find something you like. Did you know you can also look for patterns by color?
And the best thing: you can use these patterns in your own (non-commercial) projects for free! So get inspired by the creativity of others.
Enjoy creating patterns with Repper Lite!
June 7, 2010
Interview with Carli Hyland
We’d like to present to you Carli Hyland, one of our most trusted users. She has been amongst our fans from the beginning and according to legend it was for her that Wouter made the first pattern-making experiment that would later turn into the Repper software. Enjoy!
Illustration by Carli Hyland
Tell us a bit about yourself. Are you a creative professional or do you spend your spare time on your own creative projects?
I am a photographer, illustrator and bookmaker, but I also do a bit of tiddling about with some design. I guess I’m a creative professional, I spend the majority of the working week designing and building books, on the weekends I shoot and in the evenings I process my photographs and create new ways of stitching books together. I recently illustrated a children’s book for Canadian writer Frank Streicher, soon to be published!
(more…)June 1, 2010
Sneak preview: simulating patterned textiles
We’ve been playing around lately with applying patterns to fashion photos in graphic software, to see how the fashion folks are using Repper. The below image was made with some Photoshop trickery. We are planning to make you a video tutorial soon how to do this yourself!
Original photo by chwynyn
We think it would be incredibly cool to be able to apply patterns to imagery right in Repper and such a feature is definitely on our wish list for Repper Pro 2.0. Feel free to let us know what you think about this feature, dear Repper users!
May 17, 2010
Repper workshop: wallpaper designs
The 2nd year students from the interior design school HMC explored wallpaper design through our introductory Repper workshops. After a short introduction to Repper and using patterns in Photoshop, they jumped right into the tool and made these wonderful patterns:
You can view more of their creations in our gallery.
We were particularly amazed by the design below by Tara Smit, who simulated a 3D surface. In 1 word: wow!
Repper workshop: design-a-lamp
Two weeks ago we did two workshops with 3rd year interior design students from HMC (Rotterdam) in which they designed a lamp shade in under 3 hours. Quite a challenge, or so we thought, but the students absolutely baffled us with their creative designs!
First they designed a set of patterns with Repper on the computer.
Then it was time to get our hands dirty and started folding, cutting, bending and generally torturing the patterned paper.
Here are some of the great prototypes:
designer – Karin Lammers ⇑
designer – Sanneke Tangel ⇑
We would like to thank all the enthusiastic teachers and students for a very educational and fun day!
p.s. tell us if your design is featured here and we’ll put your name under it!
May 12, 2010
How-to: Print your patterns on fabric
We find patterns everywhere around us. One place where you can’t go without some good ol’ pattern-making is fashion design. So what if you made a lovely pattern and you’d like to get it printed on textile? Meet our friends at Spoonflower!
Spoonflower is able to print any design you make with Repper. They have a variety of fabrics, including regular and organic cotton, linen-cotton and even exotics like bamboo-cotton. Prices range from 18 to 32 USD per yard (for metric-minded people: that’s about a square meter), with discount if you are the designer of the pattern.
Below is one of our own patterns printed on linen, looking pretty good. This test-print was made at the Textile Museum in Tilburg, NL.
We hope you feel inspired to use all those pretty patterns and turn them into haute-couture! Send us a photo with your patterned dress/shirt/pants and we will feature you on our blog.
Be sure to keep an eye on our blog, because there is more info & tips coming up for pattern-making fashion fans.
May 5, 2010
Repper Pro – new version: 1.0.116
An update for all users of Repper Pro is now available.
- We fixed a number of minor bugs.
- When you load an image it now remembers the last folder you had open. Thanks to our user Rivka for the tip!
- We cleaned up the interface a bit. You working with patterns, so you should see as much as possible of them.
This new version is also digitally signed, so it’s clear to you that your installing trusted software. On the installing window, you now see a yellow info icon instead of a red one. Pretty neat 
.
Unfortunately, this means that you might have some trouble upgrading. To install this update, you have to uninstall the previous version first. Keep your serial code ready, as you are required to fill it in one more time. With future updates this should work automatically.
Here’s the link to Repper Pro. Enjoy!
If things are not working as they should or you have ideas, suggestions or praise, drop us a line on our support forum.
April 18, 2010
Repper Pro works in a team
We just implemented a smart new feature that will be included in the first version of Repper Pro: it automatically updates when the input image is changed in another image editor (i.e. Photoshop).
This allows you to quickly make changes to the pattern in real-time using the application that you are used to working with.
This should make the process of making beautiful patterns even easier for you!
Some screen shots of the process in action.
We hope to have some movies for you guys soon showing this and other new features of Repper Pro.
Let us know what you think of this new feature in our support forum. Stay tuned for more updates on this feature unique to Repper and follow us while we finish up the first official release in the coming weeks.
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