Oct 30, 2014

Mid Century Design

Inspiration of the week...one of my dear friends bought a house and she showed it to me the other day. 
The house was built in 1959 and you could see it was a gorgeous house by that time. 
Walking inside I felt like time travelling, almost everything was still authentic. Amazing ! 
I do not need to mention I admire the Mid-Century style a lot and got quite excited inside. 
The first thing what caught my eye was a kind of music shelf with doors with beautiful flower designs on it.

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Mid Century Flower Design

Then we walked into the rooms and I saw beautiful wall paper ... I still can not believe this wall paper is on these walls for over 50 years.

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Mid-Century children's wall paper

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Mid-Century wall paper

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Mid-Century wall paper

Happy Thursday !

Oct 23, 2014

Pattern Mix

Fall break is over and after visiting family in Germany and getting some rest I am happy to be back on my desk designing.

During fall break I received a nice email saying some of my patterns are published in the new e-book Pattern Mix by Pattern People. 
It is a great inspiration and features over 100 talented surface designers from all over the world. 
It shows more than 800 print designs on 200 plus pages of colourful patterns. 
As much as I love to hold an actual book, I get used to ebooks I can conveniently store on my iPad which means I almost always have them with me which is great.
You can check out more details about the book over here.

E-book Pattern Mix by Pattern People

One of my designs published in the book.
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Surface Pattern "Abstract 1"  copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2014

Happy Thursday !

Oct 3, 2014

Happy Fall Break !

I feel we just had summer break...it is beautiful in Switzerland right now, fog in the morning and sunshine in the afternoon. 
The leaves are falling and colours are changing. 
I am off for fall break and will be back in three weeks.

Happy Friday !


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Happy Fall Break !