Print & Pattern: Nature

by Bowie Style

The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern blog, Print & Nature celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs of leaves, insects, grasses, butterflies, and trees. Product areas covered include stationery, cards and giftwrap, fabrics, wallpaper, rugs, ceramics, homewares, gadget skins, and more.

Documenting the work of the best designers in the field, the book is an invaluable source of reference and inspiration for surface designers, designer-makers and craftspeople, graphic designers, illustrators, and textile designers.

Genres: Art

304 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2017

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

While depictions of nature in design is far from new, their stylistic expressions are endless. British illustrator Marie Perkins—aka Bowie Style—has shared hundreds of images on her popular Print & Pattern blog, while continuing to celebrate illustration talents into an enduring and invaluable print resource. Following two general collections, she devoted her next books to themes of Geometric, Kid and now, Nature. Beautiful surface designs and patterns including graphic representations of leaves, flowers, insects, rocks, butterflies and trees are all found in this colourful 300-page collection from over 100 international imagemakers.

Each artist feature covers a selection of key projects, illustrator bio, client list and details on personal motivations, aspirations or inspirations. Supporting captions explain the techniques and graphic effects behind each creator’s work process or preferences. While a quick flip through the book may initially feel like a page out of Pinterest or an IKEA catalog, the nuances of texture, line, pattern and color each play a big role in distinguishing the endless possibilities of how many beautiful facets of nature can be expressed visually.

Whether traditional illustration executed by hand with pencil, ink or brush, digital illustration created via computer or tablet, or a combination of both media, the current state of illustration for commercial applications is very alive and very well, as proven by another successful Bowie Style collection.

[F. P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've had this book for years, and it's such a great book to flip through, with so much talent and beautiful art inside.

I really like the inclusion of personal details about the artists beside the images they've created; the way the details are written, it really brings home to me how many artists are working on their art out there (and have worked on their art over humanity's history), and how emotional they are about their work.

[Amy in the Desert · Rating 5 out of 5]

so many inspiring patterns and pattern makers! Love looking through this colorful and fun book