Surface Design Scavenger Hunt

This week I searched my house for inspiration for my next project. I have always really liked Mandela patterns, so I have some examples of that based on my decorating preferences. My favourite pattern of the ones below is the ceramic tile. My mom got it in Greece and I love its detail and radial pattern.

This pillow has a lot of flower and organic shapes that I would like to pull into my own pattern. I also like how the dots guide your eyes around the pattern.

The floor in the lego building is something I would consider using to separate much smaller Mandela or flower-like patterns, to give my whole pattern a tiled effect. The flowers and dots are more inspiration within the Mandela pattern.

The calendar and scrapbook above have colour palettes I like, as well as more examples of radial patterning.

This is the tile I mentioned at the start of the post. It looks very active, which I find to be very visually interesting. I also really like the colours of this tile.

This shower curtain has a Mandela I really like as well. This one is much more geometric than the other Mandelas. I think that I would like to incorporate a mixture of geometric and organic elements.

I like the compass as a potential use for a centre of the pattern. That could be one option of making it less abstract. The tape just has some colourful geometric patterns I appreciate, especially the top role because of the active space between the circles.

These two pieces of origami used patterned paper, and have a nice radial pattern as a whole. One thing I might incorporate from these is having bigger shapes with smaller patterns within them.

Here is my first page of sketches where I was just taking apart some of the pieces of patterns I like, so I can put them together on the next page.

Here are my pattern options, I might mix and match some of the different pieces, but I am leaning towards the top pattern. I also need to decide if I want to make them individually and place them onto the tiles you can see on the right, or have one radial pattern and just add onto it. I'm excited to move into Rhino and finalize the design!

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