Spots & Stripes & Scales, Oh My!

We do love our animal prints.  Leopard, tiger, cheetah, giraffe, peacock, cow, snakeskin, alligator, zebra, it doesn’t matter.  I’ve always wondered why some patterns make it into textiles and others don’t.  At first, when people wore animal skins, it made sense.  A person would wear leopard fur, so leopard print cotton was a natural extension of that.  But I sincerely doubt anyone wore peacock feathers woven into fabric, so that’s a bit more random.

Other animal texture/patterns I would love to see in textiles:

Feather striations

Butterfly wing

Sharkskin

Turtle shell

Calico

…Suggestions?

Simplicity

I missed you guys, out here on the webspace.  What have I been thinking about the last couple of months, you ask?  Simplicity.  In graphics I’ve been doing all that is humanly possible to simplify the visual.  Design is all about messaging, and the more basic the message, the clearer it is.  Because really, who wants to suffer through visual bullshit?

I was thinking of writing more, but I think stopping here kind of makes my point.