Tango Pattern Designs
Tango Designs
Tango Inspiration
The Tango pattern design started as a large abstract canvas, I painted in 2013. I was looking for original curving shapes that could be extracted to use as wallpaper. I drastically reduced the number of colours in a photo of the painting, then recoloured areas in Adobe Illustrator to make the different elements of Tango.
Early Designs
The design alternates a flipped copy with a normal version. By varying the scale and colours created a wide range of unique patterns.
Design Variations
There are now seven distinct sets of patterns within the Tango portfolio. The visuals shown on this page are from the first three designs; starting with A, then getting smaller design B, and finally smallest design C.
See the rest of the Tango 2 pattern collection – designs D to G.
Creating This Website Page
I chose a set of my favourite designs from a total of 251 variations. They are roughly sorted by colour. Rolling your mouse over an image will display its code. Each of the slideshows has a different set-up depending on the screen sized used. Those using a small mobile will be shown a lot less images than those using large desktop screens. Rolling over the images – or clicking on them – shows the code if you would like to discuss this design.
Colour Combinations
For my pattern designs I use a catalogue of numbered, standard colours. When Tango was created there were 19 colours in my swatch library. Colouring the tango element and a second colour for the background. This totals 19 x 19 = 361 different combinations, less 19 for those where the tango element is the same colour as the background which comes to a total of 342 possible colour combinations.
Buying My Designs
Products featuring my pattern designs are available to buy from my shops hosted by Spoonflower and Contrado. As well as fabrics by the metre, they can produce my designs on T-Shirts and on a range of home decor items including; tablecloths, bedding, cushions, wallpaper, cushions and gift wrap paper.
