Cutting Edge Patterns and Textures

Description

Over 250 pattern designs at your fingertips

Have you ever run your hand along a piece of wallpaper, looking for the slightest alteration in the pattern? Spent just a little too much time staring at a jigsaw puzzle, searching out the missing piece?

People are irresistibly drawn to patterns. And many graphic designers are irresistibly drawn to creating patterns. Cutting-Edge Patterns and Textures features over 250 of their results, collected from 83 designers, artists, and graphic design studios from around the globe. Some are simple, monochromatic designs; others are intricate, colourful explosions. Together they represent the latest trends in graphic pattern design.

Enjoy the hypnotic quality of the featured patterns. Use them as inspiration for your own pattern designs. Or print and manipulate them for your reference or use with the enclosed CD-ROM.

CONTENTS:

* Introduction...........................6
* The Patterns.........................8
* About the contributors........306
* Index................................334