Pattern Factory shines a light on unconventional contemporary patterns created by cutting edge illustrators and graphic designers and showing how these unique patterns are created, applied to products, and presented in stores. With full-color illustrations throughout, it showcases more than 100 images by artists and designers who create distinct and unique patterns and graphics. It features selected designers and artists who have shown originality in the range of their products as well as in their print designs, and brings an insight into their creative processes with interviews and photos of their working environments. The book will be a useful resource for artists, illustrators, fashion designers/enthusiasts, and graphic designers, and will attract textile and crafts lovers to an under-represented area of popular contemporary visual culture.
Pattern Factory is a colorful showcase of outstanding contemporary patterns by the world's leading artists and designers, including Takashi Murakami, Julian Opie,Keiichi Tanaami, Perks and Mini, So_Me, and many others.In addition to an archive of more than 150 vibrant and distinct patterns, this visually stunning volume includes exclusive interview pages--featuring Mike Mills, Eley Kishimoto,Lizzie Finn, Sousou, and Fabrick/Medicom Toy--which unveil the artists' working processes and sources of inspiration,along with photographs of their studios and factories.
Pattern Factory includes an exciting CD-ROM, with 30 brand new patterns created by the artists exclusively for this book,as well as an Adobe Illustrator file, which allows you to pick and choose varied design elements, and mix and match them to make more than 55 patterns of your very own for tote bags,stickers, wallpaper for your computer, and so much more.
FOREWORD
CHAPTER 1 :ARCHIVES
FILIP PAGOWSKI
TAKASHI MURAKAMI
AYA TAKANO
JULIAN OPIE
YAYOI KUSAMA
JULIE VERHOEVEN
GARY PANTER
KEIICHI TANAAMI
CARSTEN FOCK
KATHRINE DE PLACE BJORN
GIOVANNA CELLINI
HYDE SK
WILL SWEENEY
HIROSHI IGUCHI
TOMOKI KUROKAWA
RUSSELL MAURICE
SO ME
TEN DO TEN
ENAMEL
HENRIK VIBSKOV
GENEVlFVE GAUCKLER
SANNA ANNUKKA
FREDERIQUE DAUBAL
RYUHEI NAKADAI
BLUEMARK
SIMON PARRIS
PETER JENSEN
SUSUMU MUKAI
PERKS AND MINI
FERGADELIC
MARCUS JAMES
SALVIA
NIGEL PEAKE
NAHO OGAWA
ERI KATAYAMA
YUKARI MIYAGI
MURGRAPH
KANAKO SASAKI
DEANNE CHEUK
ZAKEE SHARIFF
SKATETHING
KOH CHIHARA
CHAPTER 2: IDEAS PROCESS + OUTPUT
MIKE MILLS
FABRICK/MEDICOM TOY
SOUSOU
LIZZIE FINN
ELEY KISHIMOTO
CHAPTER 3: PRODUCTS
IN THE KITCHEN
IN THE LIVING ROOM
IN THE BATHROOM
ON THE TOWN
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
HITTHE ROAD
INDEX
ABOUTTHE CD-ROM