William Morris
(1834-96)
By the mid-1860s, William Morris concentrated on designing wallpaper. His patterns were inspired by the natural world. often opting for darker natural colours. He was a key contributer to the arts and crafts movement which purpose was to bring the outside inside in an industrial time period.
I personally enjoy his work due to the use of hatching and the natural form. the dark colours contrasted with the harsh highlights really pop and I love the vintage feel. Morris would often hand draw his wallpaper stamps and hand print them.
Orla Kiely
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Orla Kiely, (born 1963), is an Irish fashion designer based in London. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars. She is seen as a more contemporary artist due to the nature of her work.
I enjoy how she uses basic shape to create animals, plants etc and choses heavily saturated colours as a type of op art to trick the eye into seeing or not seeing the pattern.
Inspiration for handkerchief design, a more sporadic and modern interpretation to the "print all over" movement.
Source: http://www.cardigansandcravats.com/blog/2015/1/27/draped-in-stars
I particularly like these designs for reasons specified in my process for the handkerchief found here.
Bauhaus
The Bauhaus movement heavily contrasts that of the arts and crafts movement of the 1900s. The movement focused on that of geometry and almost a sense of minimalism. Bauhaus is often seen today in Ikea furniture. Taking the simplistic and minimalist designs we all know the company for.
The school is also renowned for its faculty, which included artists Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers,László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Johannes Itten, architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and designer Marcel Breuer. - Source
I personally love the use of colour and shape to create an eye catching piece with either masses or no meaning. I plan to emulate this style in the making of my pencil case with a Memphis motif.
