Designing for Kids: Create Playful Patterns
Trends in the Kidswear Market
A course by Tati Abaurre , Pattern Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Trends in the Kidswear Market
Overview
“In this lesson, I will provide an introduction to trends, finding trending themes, motifs, and colors to inspire your work and help you create market-ready designs.”
In this video lesson Tati Abaurre addresses the topic: Trends in the Kidswear Market, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing for Kids: Create Playful Patterns. Learn to create a collection of whimsical pattern designs for children's clothing and decor, from the initial sketch to the final mock-up.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Trends in the Kidswear Market In this lesson, I'll give you an introduction to trends to help you find themes, motifs, and colors to inspire your work so that you can create relevant, beautiful, and market-ready designs. When we hear about kids' trends, we think about specific trendy motifs like sloths, unicorns, and llamas, which are motifs we've been seeing everywhere over the last few years. Trends are more than just specific and popular motifs that people like. Trends are like style guides that emerge to address consumer mindset and behavior. Creating designs with trends in mind helps...”
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Course summary for: Designing for Kids: Create Playful Patterns
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Pattern Design, Product Design, Traditional illustration

Tati Abaurre
A course by Tati Abaurre
Tati Abaurre is a Brazilian pattern designer and illustrator. She fell in love with art from a young age and experimented with sketching, painting, writing, and beyond before going on to study architecture. In search of something that fulfilled her more creatively, she took a course on children’s book illustration and fell in love with the medium. Soon after, she immersed herself in the world of pattern design and illustration, sharing her creations on Instagram and dedicating herself to creating patterns full-time.
Since then, Tati has brought her designs to life in the form of kids’ decor, rugs, art prints, wallpaper, greeting cards, clothing, and beyond. She has also designed patterns for Disney, Lilipinso, Figo Fabrics, Up with paper, YOYO Books, and Stormy Knight. In 2021, she also started her own brand of stationery, "By Tati Abaurre".
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