I’d love to share some of my work with you today. I’m about to debut my patterns at the New York Surtex (surface pattern/textile) show on May 18-20. It would be wonderful to see my patterns turn into practical applications. That’s how I want to share my art. Perhaps they could be made into wallpaper, wall decals, bedding, you name it. It should be an interesting show (I’m a little nervous). If you’re coming please stop by my booth to say hello (booth 1010). Before I show you some stunning ways to add color to your home without the arduous task of taping and painting your walls, here are some of my own patterns for you to see. For more of my work please visit my site.

Samantha Hahn Patterns

Pneumatic Knockout:

Fireflies:

Botany 101:

And now for some great companies that sell beautiful wallpaper, and decals ready for you to brighten your decor without paint!


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Since launching the pattern maker four months ago, more than 85,000 patterns have been colored and shared on the site. We’ve been adding more pattern styles as fast as we can and now have 69 different pattern styles for you coloring pleasure. Here are some of the recently added pattern styles and an update for browsing similar designs.

Pattern By: Pattern Head [www.patternhead.com]

Pattern By: designfruit [www.designfruit.com]

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You all are just way to talented! Choosing 3 winners from the 1,500 entries was an incredibly difficult task. It actually took more than a few hours to look at all the entries. (You can view all the contest entries here: Photo Color Inspiration with LuckyOliver) So many were creative, interesting and works of art themselves… but in the end we only have enough prizes for 3 winners and here they are:

1st Prize 8GB iPod Touch or $300 via US check or PayPal 50 LuckyOliver tokens

2nd Prize iPod Shuffle or $79 via US check or PayPal 50 LuckyOliver tokens

3rd Prize iTunes Gift Card or $25 via US check or PayPal 25 LuckyOliver tokens

Honorable Entries

Getting 3 from 1,500 was nearly impossible. Along the way we kept trimming the list of palettes we loved down to a smaller number and the palettes below stayed with us for most of the way. Even though they didn’t win, we wanted to share a little extra love with these palettes.

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v3 launched with a major new section… Patterns. We knew that you loved finding great colors and arranging them in color palettes… so we guessed that you might want something to do with those palettes (Seeing as you’ve already created more than 3,400 different patterns in 2 days, I think we guessed right). We launched with just a couple dozen patterns to color but hope to add hundreds more over time. Create a Pattern or Browse the Patterns that have already been added.

Use Our Patterns

Desktop Wallpaper, Website Background, Virb Profile, Myspace Layout, Etc… All of our patterns can be freely downloaded or used, but a link back to COLOURlovers is always greatly appreciated and please no commercial use or selling of our patterns. Not sure if how you want to use the pattern is commercial? Let us know how you want to use it.

Share Your Patterns

If you are the creator of a seamless pattern, Let us know and we’ll happily add it to the site. The patterns need to be able to tile, be 5 colors or less with no gradients and preferably in .svg format. Tell us how you want to be credited and we’ll add your link.

Some Pattern Color Inspiration and Examples:

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