research selected artist works and analyze

Artists/influences: 

Select 2 designers or and 2 pattern styles from the lists below:

Select 1 work by each (for a total of 4). Include the image in your journal. 

For designers, describe the design principles you observe in the example. Pay attention to instances of dominance and emphasis and harmony and variety, repetition, structure, rhythm, texture, color.

For cultural traditions, summarize distinctive style characteristics of the tradition.

What did you learn about pattern design that you utilized in your approach to this project?

Surface designers & illustrators:

Julia Rothman

Owen Jones

Judy Reed Silver

Guilherme Marconi

Ann Baddely Keister

Charly Palmer

William Morris

Anni Albers

Yayoi Kusama

Cultural traditions: focus on traditional work, not contemporary or digital.

Japanese pattern and mon,

Maori pattern and ornament,

Celtic pattern and ornament,

African pattern and ornament,

Kwakiutl pattern and ornament,

Navajo pattern and ornament.