Black and White Competition 2014

 Over the last month I have been working on this current competition by Tigerprint. The brief was to create a design with only black and white colours.The design would be used for cards, wrapping paper and gift bags.

When I first found out about this competition I was excited as I felt that this was the perfect theme for me. It meant that I could show my talents using my patterns to create beautiful organic creations.

This image on the left was orginally for the colour of love competition that I was going to enter. However I did not feel that it suited the theme enough, so I saved it for this competition particularly. For this design I chose to include as many hearts I could. In a variety of styles. I like the thought that the hearts or 'love' is growing and blooming.

These next three images are variety of some designs. I particularly liked the butterflies they seem a big thing at the moment. I am also enjoying decorating them with my patterns. The flowers were inspired by the effect that I used to get with a Spirograph. The looping petals give the flowers a few ways of looking at the flower, especially if you focus on one petal. I think the mixture of the flowers and butterflies work well together and relate with the shapes.

I particularly like the last image as the contrast of the black background with my designs, make the details more pronounced and eye catching. I think I will try this out with a few more of my designs.

Creating these designs for the competition, was a new challenge for me as my whiplash is still effecting me. I found I could only draw in 10 minute sperts. Where I then needed to rest my neck and arm, as I would be in quite some pain. I tried to push myself as much as I could but found it hard at times and frustrating.


For my future designs I think I will continue exploring with butterflies, as I like the summitry on the wings. I also like the thought of lots choices with a small surface pattern space.


When I submitted my designs I was hopeful of my entries as I thought the subject matter suited me well. However I was unfortunate to not be shortlisted. Which I found disapointing but  I will continue try to more competitions.