Spontaneous sketches became textile patterns

18 Aug, 2011 | Sofia Hulting | 0 Comments

Beckmans College of Design and IKEA create textiles together.

The collaboration began with a two-day workshop held by illustrator and graphic designer Laurie Rosenwald for 22 students. The theme of the workshop was "How to make deliberate mistakes". Paint, markers, pencils, ink, paper cut-outs and similar tools were used during the first day to create hundreds of chance sketches in black and white. Each sketch was photographed and filed in a digital archive by IKEA's product developer for textiles. During the second day of the workshop, the students found out that the sketches were going to be used in an up-coming textile collection for IKEA and they began to design patterns out of the digital sketches. Everything was then handed over to IKEA's product developer who worked for 3-4 weeks to convert the result into finished textiles. Now there is a collection of six fabrics, one bed set and one shower curtain for sale in 38 IKEA department stores around the world.

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