Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design

Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design is a practical digital guide for designers, illustrators, and crafters who want to build confidence with surface pattern design. This PDF edition offers instant download and can be read on tablets, desktop, or reading apps.

Written by Khristian A. Howell, the book presents fifty exercises that turn everyday observation into repeatable creative practice. Whether you are starting out or looking for fresh prompts, you can begin immediately after purchase.

Book Overview

Color + Pattern is a hands-on introduction to pattern design from Rockport Publishers. The book moves from gathering inspiration to designing motifs, building repeats, and developing a cohesive collection. It includes exercises using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with contributor examples throughout.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Start an inspiration journal and build a library of visual references.
• Create geometric, doodle, floral, folk, and ethnic motifs.
• Explore straight, half-drop, brick, mirrored, directional, and tossed repeats.
• Use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for digital pattern repeats.
• Develop collections with multicolor, simple, tonal, and high-contrast palettes.
• Create balance with scale, density, style, and color cohesion.

Why This Book Matters

Color + Pattern makes pattern design approachable through short, playful exercises. It connects hand-drawn observation with digital production skills, helping readers see patterns in everyday life. The book was first published by Rockport Publishers in 2015 and remains a useful resource for students and working designers.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This is a digital download, so there is no physical shipping. After purchase, you can access the PDF on compatible devices such as Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile phones, and reading apps. Please confirm that your preferred app supports PDF files before downloading.

FAQ

How soon will I receive the book? This is a digital download. Access is available immediately after purchase.

Will a physical copy be shipped? No. This is a digital PDF edition and no physical item will be mailed.

What devices can I use? The PDF works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading apps.

Download Color + Pattern today and start exploring pattern design through fifty approachable exercises.

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