Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design
Presentation
A course by Marta Afonso , Textile Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this class, I will talk to you about my personal and professional path and tell you what I have been doing since I met manual fabric printing up to the present day.”
In this video lesson Marta Afonso addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design. Discover manual stamping techniques that bring fabrics to life and create an original digital collection of patterns.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hi, welcome to my course. In this lesson, I'll talk about my personal and professional journey. I'm Marta, I'm a textile designer and illustrator, and the person behind Karaka, a creative studio I founded in 2015, in which I focus on hand printing techniques on fabric, and in pattern development. My interest in arts and crafts started at an early age. When I was a child, I loved what my grandmother created, sewing, embroidering and knitting. I still have pieces she made that remind me of the significance of having something handmade with love. But I realized that I was more int...”
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Course summary for: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Fashion Design, Pattern Design, Printing, Textile Printing, Traditional illustration

Marta Afonso
A course by Marta Afonso
From an early age, Portuguese designer Marta Afonso was inspired by her grandmother's mastery of thread and needle and grew up fascinated by the textile world and its creative possibilities.
In 2015, Marta decided to combine her background in pattern/dressmaking and lino/woodcutting with her professional experience in graphic design to create Atelier Karaka, a studio specializing in manual fabric stamping, pattern design, and illustration.
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