Our feature textile artist is Amy Hillyard who is a 2012 printed textiles graduate from the University of East London. She is very passionate and highly creative artist where she produces high quality original designs. She uses a combination of hand drawn images, photography and Adobe Photoshop to recreate contemporary and colorful designs for the fashion and textiles industry.

She has won a few design competitions which were also featured on Fashion Vignette. Her most recent winning was with BetaFashion's August competition and inspiration "Heaven's Door" for her scarf design "sugar skulls" which will be available to purchase on Topshop.com and Betafashion.com. She was also named one of the four winners for the May competition and inspiration "Inception". 

Amy's other accomplishments include having several designs chosen to be represented by JRC Imports and has shown her designs at Indigo Premiere Vision Paris. She has a selection of designs in Pattern People’s e-book, Repeat After Me.

To learn more about Amy and to view her work, go here.

Our featured Artist/Illustrator is Anne Quadflieg who lives  in Hamburgs Sternschanze, Germany.  I love how she incorporates an organic twist to some of her work with the use of elements from nature and dimensions to her illustrations. She is quite talented illustrating in different mediums and styles which gives her the satisfaction to continue to offer more than just one specific illustration style. Many of her inspirations are from strolling over fleamarkets and old books. 

I was thrilled to have Monica Pedersen share her work with us because we love how she pulls her concepts, designs and illustrations together... Monica who is from Norway is a multi-talented Designer in fashion illustration, graphic and fashion design.  She has recently finished her studies at the Esmod Fashion School in Oslo, Norway after having the courage to follow her dream and to study Fashion Design. Her big focus at Esmod was Fashion Illustration. Monica's background also includes studying Media Design (focusing on Graphic Design) at the University of Agder and at COFA Sydney and after that she worked as a Colourist Assistant and later as a News Graphicer at NRK.

She is currently freelancing in both professions and still currently lives in Oslo with her fiance. She is big on being inspired by nature, and she usually ends up with concepts related to nature in some way which she feels comes naturally when you live in Norway.   

A must is to view her additional work on her blog  monicaskolearbeid.blogspot.com and you can also view/purchase her work etsy.com/shop/monicapedersen.

Alessia Landi is originally from Florence, Italy living in Gent, Belgium is our featured illustrator.  She is a Scientist but has a deep love for fashion and art.  She spends her free time either drawing or photographing and she can't spend a day without doing so. Alessia has been impressively featured by The Man Repeller, 7 For all Mankind, the fashion magazine Glam*it, and Grazia.it to name a few. Go here to view her press information.

Visit her portfolio website alessialandi.com and visit her blog the-reddot.com.

Freshly graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, Rachel Clore is a budding textile designer. Her most recent works have been inspired by her experiences while living and studying traditional tie and dye techniques in India.

Read more about Rachel’s prints and journey through India at rachelclore.com.

Meet talented illustrator, Alice Wilson who is a 20 yr old English student studying literature at Trinity College Dublin but her real love lies in art, specifically portrature. She has a fascination in people, characters and the story behind them. She lived in Paris for a year giving her the oppurtunity to see some of the world's most talented artists an obviously draw some wonderful people! She is happiest when drawing/painting using a variety of mediums: ink, pencil, watercolour and oil as well as mixing up textures. She has had no training but through her blog has increased publicity and therefore increased commissions!

Take a look at her portfolio/blog aliceauxpaysenchantes.blogspot.co.uk and do ask for commissions by emailing wilson.a2@hotmail.com.

We are thrilled to feature and announce a collaboration with Windsor & Sparrow, a low profile, high concept creative agency who works with a variety of talented artists, designers and individuals to turn concepts and ideas into projects and products.  They recently launch their company's project, the Gallery of Fashion Art which is an online gallery for the works of selected featured fashion illustrators.  In collaboration with Fashion Vignette, they will provide illustrations, portraits, illustrate on top of photographs, draw from the runway and many more...

Check out their websites, galleryoffashionart.com , their blog galleryoffashionart.com/blog
and shop, shopgofa.com

We are thrilled to re-feature and announce a collaboration with Jen Gassiraro our newest contributor who is based in the Dallas, Texas area.   She is an amazing and talented designer who by day is a Textile/Graphic Designer for a leading retailer in the U.S.  To fullfill her need to create outside of her work and her high energy to paint and illustrate, she creates beautiful art that she sells to the public. 


We can't wait to share all the beautiful inspirational visuals she will create for us, so stay tuned.... In the meantime, you'll need to visit and follow her inspirational and beautiful sites below as she shares so many great visuals to inspire us!


ART www.jengassiraro.com   
BLOG/inspiration www.jengassiraro.blogspot.com  
PIN/inspiration pinterest.com/jngassiraro

© 2012 by JEN GASSIRARO - all rights reserved.   Layout may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission.

Our featured talented designer is Elysia Yeoh Wei Shin ,  who is 22 years old and is from Penang, Malaysia. She is a multi language speaker ( Mandarin, English , Cantonese , Malay and a bit of Japanese) She currently graduated from the De Montfort University, UK with a degree in BA Fashion Design. She has a high interest in pattern cutting and garment making however also enjoy illustration work and a bit of design work.

Mariam Barska is a seasoned Fashion Designer and we are thrilled to feature her today. Her fashion career began in 1993 after attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Here are some of her amazing designs worn by some of the most famous celebrities and as featured by the press and editorials when she did runway for over 5 years.  You can view many of her runway shows on Style.com under Herve Leger by Max Azria where she did her first show through resort 2012.


She is currently consulting as a Design Director/Creative Director for some companies and freelancing at this time. Visit her website mariambarska.com and view her professional profile on Linkedin here. 

K A T E  L Y N C H  is a recent graduate specializing in Digital Printed Textiles from the Buckinghamshire New University, located in the UK. She has a passion for all things design: textiles, fashion, interiors and illustration. If she is designing, she is happiest and she uses many different techniques to create her designs such as pencil drawing, painting and photoshop.

Throughout her time at the university she has had the priviledge to work on a two week placement at Baxter Fawcett Design Studio, and be involved in two live briefs from Marson Fabrics and Stylesight.


Her collection below consists of many three-dimensional designs by the use of created 3d shapes from an animation program along with a couple of her fashion illustrations.


She has a wonderful talent and a great eye, check out her blog lynchkate.blogspot.com and her website, katel.moonfruit.com. She is currently also available for hire at this time as well. 

STYLESIGHT FEATURE     The two vibrant spotty materials (right of the title and bottom left are Kate Lynch's work as featured on Stylesight. To view her feature on her blog, go here. © 2012 by KATE LYNCH. All rights reserved.No part of these images may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission.

Today's feature, a Contemporary Fashion Design collection BETTE LIPTON designed by the talented designer Bethany Clarke. She was actually recommended and introduced by another designer - I love the great design community of designers supporting one another.  Bethany is a graduate from the University of Northampton from the UK, and took interest in 2D and 3D design. The majority of her designs features bold and vibrant colors and using weave techniques with materials such as cotton, wool and lamp nappa leather. For her collection, she took inspirational photographs,  turned them to sketches then finally taking them to patterns and exquisite details into the final designs.

She is currently interning for the designer brand "JOVEEBA" based in Sydney, Australia to gain more industry experience and hopes to continue her studies for her master's degree.

You can check out her blog here and also her feature on Tell Us Fashion Magazine, here.

Featured artist is Surface Pattern Designer and Illustrator Kat Spencer. Her featured work are some of my favorite ones, so colorful, bold and beautifully done. I also love how she applies her prints on sketch line drawings so you can view her intended application. Her work is distinctive with her unique approach of modernising traditional cultural motifs.  The media she uses to create her designs starts with photography,  pen and ink illustrations taken from nature. She then applies a combination of hand crafting techniques, using inks, beads and stitch work.


Kat is also very skilled in advanced CAD techniques using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. 


To learn more about Kat and to view more of her work, visit her website here. 

© 2012 by KAT SPENCER. All rights reserved.No part of these images may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission.

Featured Surface Textile Designer is Michelle Taufiq who is based in Manchester, UK and is a recent graduate from Leeds College of Art. Her work experience includes working at Monsoon and various textile studios, giving her the knowledge and understanding how important it is to be innovative in the textile industry.

Michelle has a unique illustrative style while combining strong geometric designs. Her technique and style is to often paint back into her designs or works back into them with screen printing after being digitally printed so each individual print becomes unique. She also is very experienced in the use of Photoshop and Illustrator and uses a variety of special print processes.

You can view her portfolio here and also contact her for freelance work.