Wonky Spirals Pattern Design
Fun Pattern Brief
A lot of my pattern designs have been carefully crafted, this pattern design is totally different. I started out with the brief to myself to keep it rough and fun.
Assembling the Parts
There are nine different wonky spirals. Each one is a very rough white spiral shape made with straight lines – not curves. Then on top I added a wobbly pattern of rough crisscross lines. As if someone had badly embroidered across the white spaces.
Colouring the Pattern
To keep with the fun vibe I chose bright orange and blue as background colours. Further colour variations were added later.
Defining the Pattern Repeat
The design uses nine variations, so to make the pattern repeat simple I created a 3 x 3 grid, then moved them around until they worked together.
Testing The Pattern Repeat
These full-screen versions use actual pattern repeats, set to repeat and scaled using my CSS style sheet. This is the ideal way to test if a pattern repeat works.
Alternative Versions
I just couldn’t resist tidying up the design so there are alternative designs shown in the small swatches above. Which do you prefer?
Alternative Colourways
I experimented with other colour combinations. My favourites were still orange and blue, but there are some others I tried – shown above. The rejected ones include a rather nice teal colour, it just was too conservative.
