Illustrated Pattern Design
System 1
A course by Ana Sanfelippo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: System 1
Overview
“Within the compositional variables I show you how when playing with opposites you can reach very different results.”
In this video lesson Ana Sanfelippo addresses the topic: System 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Pattern Design. Learn to tell stories using your own hand-drawn patterns and print them on different surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“System In this lesson, we'll develop the idea of the system and we'll understand how working with constants and variables and experimenting with the extremes in those opposites, we will obtain very diverse results. For example, full and empty, simple and complex, and other examples that we're going to see. We have to understand the idea of the system as a set of pieces that, through constants and variables, will create different instances in which the elements are going to work, separately, in one way, and together, they'll generate a new meaning. In other words, each of the patterns that w...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Pattern Design
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Gouache Painting, Pattern Design, Printing, Traditional illustration

Ana Sanfelippo
A course by Ana Sanfelippo
Ana Sanfelippo is an Argentine illustrator and graphic designer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She went from being a student to a teacher there, where she spent 14 years teaching illustration and typography.
Ana specializes in children's illustration, her main products being books and pattern designs. She collaborates with brands for whom the illustration is applied to the product as the main protagonist, such as Birchbox, La Maraña, Amazónica, and Papelirea.
She started more than ten years ago in the professional field of editorial illustration, where she first started working with patterns to create book covers. Since then, pattern design has become the place of perfect harmony between her two passions: illustration and design.
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