Pattern People's Prints Take Over Portland Design
Jessie Whipple Vickery and Claudia Brown plaster their Northeast Portland workshop with magazine clippings, fashion ads, and fabric print samples. The inspiration feeds Pattern People’s mission: creating prints for wild wallpapers, pillowcases, clothes, iPhone cases, and surfaces of all kinds.
Since 2007, the duo has designed for Estée Lauder, Clinique, and J. Crew. Influence can take many forms—a textured wallpaper for the popular local ice cream parlor Salt & Straw evokes a waffle cone. Their aesthetic? Layered, abstract riots of color and geometry. The challenge? Devising combinations suited to infinity. “The end result needs to repeat,” says Vickery. “Elements need to meet up, side to side and top to bottom, in an aesthetically pleasing manner.”
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1. Take photos of Portland spring flowers.  Image: Courtesy Pattern People |
2. Clip out and arrange select images.  Image: Courtesy Pattern People |
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3. Add background and tweak the color scheme.  Image: Courtesy Pattern People |
4. Build a separate, endlessly repeating geometric pattern.  Image: Courtesy Pattern People |
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5. Overlay the geometric pattern.  Image: Courtesy Pattern People |
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