PATTERNITY

Ou r hands-on workshop brings to life the inspirational patterns in our urban environment. Through working with simple shapes and printing techniques old and new, we e... Read More

Events, Hands on Pattern, Geometric, Architecture, Print, Everyday Excellence

Design in the City: A Pattern Hunting Trip for The School of Life

We were invited by The School of Life to share our insights into finding inspiration in the city. Taking people on a photographic tour through East London, we encouraged... Read More

PATTERNTRIP, PATTERNITY Event, City, Everyday Excellence, Pattern Inspiration, Project

Superstripe Videoscape: A Film in Collaboration With Plastic Horse

This was our second collaborative film project with animation studio Plastic Horse, reworking PATTERNITY photography taken from our everyday urban streets. We encouraged... Read More

Film, PATTERNITY Film, Project, Stripe, PATTERN POWER

City Shapes Film: An Animated Audio Visual Exploration for YCN

Commissioned for the YCN awards, our collaboration with animation specialists Plastic Horse brings to life the inspiring patterns, textures and shapes that surround us... Read More

Film, City, Direction, Urban, Everyday Excellence, Geometric

Streetshapes: Hoisery Collection + Installation for Selfridges

Our limited edition hosiery was an extension of our brand philosophy, celebrating the patterns that surround us, everywhere we go. The circles, lines, triangles and... Read More

Hosiery, Surface, Product, Geometric, Collections, Fashion + Beauty

Blue-Green inspiration from nature and the everyday

Thanks to our global pattern explorers for uncovering textures and forms in unexpected places - proving inspiration is everywhere! @benjiekat visited the Zoo in New... Read More

Everyday Excellence, Urban, Incidental + Everyday, Blue, Green, America

Playing with Reality in Urban Spaces

Artist and photographer @delphineburtin is interested in 'accidents' of sight – when our brain plays tricks on us – and has explored this phenomenon in a series of... Read More

Art + Design, Incidental + Everyday, City, Zigzag, Illusion, Concrete

Exploring Urban regeneration through pattern and play

A special project has seen artist Gui create a bold basketball court that reflects the dynamic nature of the game. In the Italian city of Alessandria, the Sicilian... Read More

Play, Sport, Art + Design, Installation, Basketball, Geometric

Look up London!

We just returned from an awe inspiring site recce for our Wellcome Trust Project. We will be filling these big beautiful windows soon… Read More

Science + Nature, Art + Design, Urban, Pavement, Translucent, Window

Fantastic Fred: Design for Wellbeing

Our co-founder Anna spoke with Fred Butler at a special dinner Now Gallery to celebrate Fred's new immersive installation show ‘Harmonics in Space’. Together they... Read More

Community, Systems + Learning, Wellbeing, Multicolour, Polygon, Geometric

Uncovering the Graphic Side to the City

Colour, form and pattern burst out of photographer Fabrizio Raschetti's work. His images capture corners and facades of urban spaces, drawing out the detail and vibrancy... Read More

Positive Patterns: Beneath the surface of our pattern design

As humans, we are naturally pattern-seeking creatures – we are genetically conditioned to recognise and find meaning in pattern. The more we look, the more we see the... Read More

Positive Patterns, John Lewis, Process, Everyday Excellence, Wellbeing, Pattern Inspiration

Carpark Cat

Greetings from a feline friend on our way into the studio… Read More

Community, Incidental + Everyday, Line, Stripe, Grey, Urban

A playful investigation of colour and form

Tekla Evelina Severin created a series of photos with joyful colours and urban patterns. Shadows create bold shapes as part of look book story for Bright Volumes , in... Read More

Everyday Excellence, Yellow, Block Colour, Fashion + Beauty, Fashion Photography, Red

Interacting with dynamic Arizonian Architecture

Arcosanti was built in the seventies to demonstrate how urban conditions could be improved while minimizing the destructive impact on the earth. Fashion photographers... Read More

Pattern Exploration, Art + Design, Architecture, Circle, Geometric, Shadow

Navigating Neural Street Connections

Navigation apps and GPS are making our brains lazier, scientists say. Researchers from UCL are exploring the physical changes occurring as we use this modern technology Read More

Brain, Anatomy, City, Systems + Learning, Technology + Innovation, Urban

Tarmac Folds

Grey, Drip, Fold, City, Tarmac, Incidental + Everyday

City Explorations on our Barbican Patternitour

Did you know there were plans to tile the whole of the Barbican in white porcelain? Just one of the nuggets shared with the pattern explorers who joined us at the... Read More

City, PATTERNITRIP, Community, Barbican, Nature, Events

Monumental Blocks

The shapes of the city are often translated into printed and surface elements of fashion garments, such as our Chinti + Parker collaboration, Conscious Cloth meets... Read More

Fashion + Beauty, Behaviour, Grey, Geometric, Research, City

Watermark

Edward Burtynsky’s photography provides us with a bird’s eye view of environmental destruction. Images of urban mines, shrinking rivers and mass consumerism all draw our... Read More

Incidental + Everyday, Landscape, Water, Patterns of Awareness, Pattern Exploration, Research

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