Pattern Factory shines a light on unconventional contemporary patterns created by cutting edge illustrators and graphic designers and showing how these unique patterns are created, applied to products, and presented in stores. With full-color illustrations throughout, it showcases more than 100 images by artists and designers who create distinct and unique patterns and graphics. It features selected designers and artists who have shown originality in the range of their products as well as in their print designs, and brings an insight into their creative processes with interviews and photos of their working environments. The book will be a useful resource for artists, illustrators, fashion designers/enthusiasts, and graphic designers, and will attract textile and crafts lovers to an under-represented area of popular contemporary visual culture.

Pattern Factory is a colorful showcase of outstanding contemporary patterns by the world's leading artists and designers, including Takashi Murakami, Julian Opie,Keiichi Tanaami, Perks and Mini, So_Me, and many others.In addition to an archive of more than 150 vibrant and distinct patterns, this visually stunning volume includes exclusive interview pages--featuring Mike Mills, Eley Kishimoto,Lizzie Finn, Sousou, and Fabrick/Medicom Toy--which unveil the artists' working processes and sources of inspiration,along with photographs of their studios and factories.

Pattern Factory includes an exciting CD-ROM, with 30 brand new patterns created by the artists exclusively for this book,as well as an Adobe Illustrator file, which allows you to pick and choose varied design elements, and mix and match them to make more than 55 patterns of your very own for tote bags,stickers, wallpaper for your computer, and so much more.

FOREWORD

CHAPTER 1 :ARCHIVES

FILIP PAGOWSKI

TAKASHI MURAKAMI

AYA TAKANO

JULIAN OPIE

YAYOI KUSAMA

JULIE VERHOEVEN

GARY PANTER

KEIICHI TANAAMI

CARSTEN FOCK

KATHRINE DE PLACE BJORN

GIOVANNA CELLINI

HYDE SK

WILL SWEENEY

HIROSHI IGUCHI

TOMOKI KUROKAWA

RUSSELL MAURICE

SO ME

TEN DO TEN

ENAMEL

HENRIK VIBSKOV

GENEVlFVE GAUCKLER

SANNA ANNUKKA

FREDERIQUE DAUBAL

RYUHEI NAKADAI

BLUEMARK

SIMON PARRIS

PETER JENSEN

SUSUMU MUKAI

PERKS AND MINI

FERGADELIC

MARCUS JAMES

SALVIA

NIGEL PEAKE

NAHO OGAWA

ERI KATAYAMA

YUKARI MIYAGI

MURGRAPH

KANAKO SASAKI

DEANNE CHEUK

ZAKEE SHARIFF

SKATETHING

KOH CHIHARA

CHAPTER 2: IDEAS PROCESS + OUTPUT

MIKE MILLS

FABRICK/MEDICOM TOY

SOUSOU

LIZZIE FINN

ELEY KISHIMOTO

CHAPTER 3: PRODUCTS

IN THE KITCHEN

IN THE LIVING ROOM

IN THE BATHROOM

ON THE TOWN

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

HITTHE ROAD

INDEX

ABOUTTHE CD-ROM