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

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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.

Daniel Rossi’s portfolio

Kaleidoscopic by Daniel Rossi

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.

Spoonflower online printing service

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!

reindeer girl illustration by Carli Hyland

I am a bit of a drifter, I’ve moved about 16 times over the last four years across four countries, I’m dirt poor but I love that I’ve been able to travel to some many places!

How does Repper Pro help you in your creative projects?

Other than providing hours of uninterrupted entertainment…I use Repper mainly as a tool to create design features in my work. I’ve used it on funding and project applications, online backgrounds as well as backgrounds to some illustrations. Now that I have the ability to print hi-res I’ll be using it to create end papers for my books so that clients can potentially create their own patterns from their own photographs, giving them the possibility to further customise their albums.

Patterns as book end paper

What online and offline services do you use to turn your creative ideas into reality?

I love kuler! I think it’s a fantastic tool when you need some colour inspiration. For inspiration ‘out of the screen’ I look towards found objects (I am an avid collector of shopping lists found on the ground) and junk that I pick up around the many op shops in Newcastle. Generally I try to find the most resourceful way to produce an idea such as a large paper sculpture I recently made from old worn out books.

Paper mobile sculpture by Carli Hyland

What features would you like to see in the upcoming versions of Repper Pro?

I can’t wait to be able to make my own fabrics, my grandma was an awesome sewer for her five children and each time I go home to visit the farm I raid her cupboards which are filled to the brim with gorgeous vintage patterns!

We want to create design tools that can be used by as many people as possible. Do you think everybody has the ability to be a designer?

If you think about design as a consideration of the aesthetic and functional aspects of an object then I think it is possible for everyone to have the ability to be a designer, think of the Sunday roast! I think there are also a lot of ‘rules’ to design which makes it intimidating for people to break into. But with tools like Repper Pro I think it’s possible to create something that is visually appealing and unique and maybe that makes you a designer or maybe not but in the end you’ve created something specific to your own taste that you’ll enjoy.

Photo by Carli Hyland

Is there anything else that you would like to share?

I think Repper Pro opens up a whole new workflow for artists and makes a really wonderful bridge between art and design. Tools such as these open up so many possibilities to such a broad audience, I love that it can be used to simply play and enjoy as well as functioning as a professional tool.

Where on the web can we find you?

You can take a look at my portfolio and my blog.

We’d like to thank Carli for taking the time to share this with us. We wish her good luck with her own projects and we will certainly take her tips into consideration for improving our software.

illustration by Carli Hyland

illustration by Carli Hyland

Would you like to share your experiences in the world of (pattern) design with us? Drop us a line and we’ll do an interview with you (if you’re interesting enough )

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.