Surface pattern ideas

 

Surface pattern research 

The general idea of a surface pattern design if creating artwork that is not in repeat. I wanted to take the illustrstion route and also incorporate photography. Which is a little different from other surface pattern ideas. 

This is some of the things I found about surface patterns during my research 

When it comes to designing for products that don’t often repeat, like art on journals or mugs, you may be considered an Illustrator. An illustration usually explains or tells some sort of story, so when the art’s main function is to make something pretty, it’s really more in the Surface Pattern Design realm.

Surface Design (without the pattern part) can be a good catch-all for how to describe designing for mass-manufactured products that are both patterned and engineered designs