Influences

As I was creating the patterns that have been featured in my sketchbook and in previous posts I thought about were the inspiration comes from. I've always loved patterns and have been drawing them for years in the back of my school note books. Also, my parents used to buy me pattern colouring books when I was younger simular to the example given below.
Later influences came from geometric design which is something most people would first be exposed to in maths when you learn about shapes and tessellation. These patterns are very pleasing to the eye. Also, from Islamic Art which uses patterns instead of imagery.
The most resent piece of design that contributes to my influences is the art of Blackwork - used in embroidery.
I've used blackwork before to create images through sewing (see above)

Numbers

Stepping away from patterns for a moment I wanted to address the issue of the numbers themselves. In doing research by looking through magazines, newspapers and books I found that numbers tend to be left alone in a boring typeface whilst text has a much bigger range of choice to look at. One place were I found numbers being displayed in a more interesting manor was in the Joe Brown catalogue - which I've spoken about in my sketchbook.

I wanted to show the variety of ways that numbers can be displayed - so I went through all the typefaces that are on my computer and came up with this sheet -
The page is overwhelming to look at, but it's just to demonstrate the variety. This is something I could consider exploring further if I think that the patterns are not the way to go.

Another Pattern

One last pattern that I chose to develop digitally - it works much in the same way as the previous one and I would probably use the same ideas with it. To keep it black and white with a colour code would be used as the background.