Couldn’t resist a temptation to tweak patterns on mockups when it’s so easy to do with SymmetryWorks LP.
Most of the source patterns are taken straight from the Artlandia Glossary and are included in a free bonus pack (in a vector format, of course) available with a purchase of SymmetryWorks.
Here, inspired in part by a wonderful collection of 1000 dresses by Fitzgerald and Taylor, we ran through a few of such ideas. Pattern applications are endless, but there are never too many ideas when it comes to brainstorming new uses for your patterns. For a pattern to run through the body of a page, you can add this class to the body tag (the background-size property is optional and needed only if you want to scale the pattern):Ĭontinue reading Where Do Patterns Go? Part 2: Patterns for Your Webpage → The tile is exactly what you need for your page CSS (or the HTML style attribute).įor instance, to re-create the first pattern from a shared set, like “SymmetryMill Blending Modes,” get its tile image and upload it to your website or link directly to the tile. To that end, for every shared pattern set, Pattern Central gives you a direct link to a pattern tile. But if you are in hurry, there’s a wealth of patterns on Pattern Central that you can deploy right away, either as is or tweaked to suit your needs. As a pattern designer, you will probably want to make your patterns yourself, and all the Artlandia tools, SymmetryWorks, SymmetryShop, and SymmetryMill, will let you do that. Patterns add flavor to your webpage, making it unique and unforgettable.
Learn how to make guilloché patterns yourself » Continue reading Where Do Patterns Go? Part 3: Secure Printing → Thin-line guilloché patterns created in Adobe Illustrator with Artlandia SymmetryWorks. As luck would have it, while researching materials for this post, we’ve gotten reacquainted with Jaeson Caulley, a long-time Artlandia user, who is also a designer, an expert in secure printing, and Vice President of DSS Plastics Group, a leader in manufacturing secure plastic cards.Īccording to Jaeson, over the past ten years, the market in building secure plastic cards has shifted from standard guilloché patterns to fine-line patterns, as the look is fresher and friendlier to photos, names, addresses, and all other kinds of variable data on the card.įor the new polycarbonate ID cards (“unbreakable glass”), which have laser-engraved variable data, fine-line patterns are also a must because the material simply won’t bond if large swaths of fill colors are used, whereas thin lines off the edge of the card allow the material to adhere to the next layer.