Surface Pattern Designer. Illustrator. Trend Researcher. Professor.
WELCOME TO MY PROJECT LIBRARY
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Prototypes.
While teaching my students, I am always inspired to do the assignments I give them myself. This was learning how to do product Mock Up Prototypes in Photoshop. I had too much fun with this, bringing my original surface designs to light, mixing product elements from a vintage past.
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Trend Bible Originals.
Such a pleasure to work with this northern based “on the pulse” UK trend agency. Assigned to the original artwork projects, I was set to the task to take their forward thinking trend boards and bring them to light. The team themselves are masters at what they do, and a delight to collaborate with!
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Manduka.
The relationship collaborating with Manduka Yoga on their surface art has been a brilliant one for me. They challenge me, and give me great freedom to design. I love the vertical orientation of the Yogitoes towels and its’ large format, giving me a long dimension to create on. Often organic, often geo organic, and often fills me with a cosmic calm while designing.
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Hand Dyed.
There are few things I love more than dying fabric. There’s always a little mystery and adrenaline rush when you’re untying elastics to reveal your work. No matter how geometric, it always takes organic forms, and bleeds in inspiring ways. See below some of my original hand dyes, and some of the products that have been created from them.
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Illustrations.
Meet Razuberi. Meet the Lorianna Team. Meet my inner characters. Executed by pencil and pen, then alcohol based markers. Custom work by request.
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Geometrics.
This collection was inspired by blending a photgraph of a stretched panty hose installation at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris with the backdrop drape at the Screen Actors Guild awards. Illustrations drawn in Photoshop.
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textured.
This entire collection was developed from one photograph taken in Paris during the lavish bloom of lilac season when the passing air catches you with a smile and informs one of the warmer days to come. Illustrations drawn in Photoshop.
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Ripzone Clothing
Creating the surface pattern artwork for Ripzone Canada always brings me such joy. Their design team is beyond pleasant and their artwork inspiration is filled with pop and charisma. Plus, I get to design for various categories of the family which is cohesive, and really fun (especially for the toddlers! :)
How it all Started
Born and raised in the reliable work ethic of the American midwest, my passion for prints and design started young.
Swooning over wallpaper, I was obsessed with finding the repeat in every pattern I saw. I grew up in the fabulously bright 80’s, in a house that was decorated in the 70’s with a lingering hint of 60’s subdued sophistication.
Take some mustard yellow, olive green, and deep red orange… mix it with a dose of fluorescent and classic rainbow and you will have found me there, smiling and swallowing up the sun of my childhood and my earliest exposures to color.
After a college education and a thrilling five years in the film industry, I finally turned my hand towards the passion that had always been calling my name, repetitive surface pattern design.
With a Photoshop and Illustrator book in hand, I trained myself in going from brush to file to printed execution.
After graceful experiences in Chicago, Los Angeles, and more than a decade in NYC, Europe was calling my name.
With over 15 years of professional design experience behind me, I landed in Paris back in 2011 with a burning intuition to just live and design.
In 2020, I was thrilled to add Professor to my list of ongoing experiences.
So here I am, nestled in the street art filled neighborhood of Menilmontant. Now, a citizen of this great country, and resting confident with an intermediate command of the French language.
I remain at your service to collaborate, think, and create.
Locally and globally.
