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The Paint By Numbers Guide to Making Elaborate Patterns (+ Twitter Backgrounds)

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The problem with repetitive patterns is that you get lost. I want enlightenment, or at least temporarily illuminating the dark side of intricate, entangled, lines and shapes.

We're talking about patterns here, patterns that are great to look stare at but hard to make. Well, not that hard, actually.

Starting at the end, here is the result, this is what we want, everyone --

And this is what it's made of, where pattern recognition comes into play -- the smallest atomic piece that, once repeated, makes up a whole tiled wall or wallpaper --

Now, let's deconstruct this pattern and analyze it --

The small shapes correspond to #1 while the larger figures are represented as #2.

Elements are turned upside down, rotated, mirrored, morphing into on another and through the boundaries of the boxes.

There is just one rule: The top has to fit seemlessly to the bottom and the left must fit the right -- without mirroring; any mirror effect has to take place within the tile, which doesn't have to be square, obviously.

See what happens in these inaccurately drawn, schematic tiles --

The hard part, and the art part, is to work as accurately as possible. This is important because the desired rapport is a seemless pattern.

Bonus points are awarded for avoiding the swastika pattern, which is way too easily created by rotating elements in an attempt to create visual "harmony." (Lyrois Pattern Law #1: When you think you're done, look for, and remove the swastikas.)

Free Twitter Backgrounds

I'll leave you with some ready-made tiles that you can use as your Twitter background image, just right-click, save-as, and you're done --

As for the second tile, who can tell me something about this one, concerning normalization and pattern recognition?

See also --

• Translating High-Res to Low-Res Graphics
• Lyrois Wallpapers: Electric Shapes

Labels: 2010, art, interior+design, lyrois, making+of, monogram, murals, patterns, print, store+furniture, twitter, wallpaper

Wallpaper: Electric Shapes

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After playing with repetitive shapes on skatedecks, here are the electric patterns again -- they're repetitive, after all --

How it is done: Printed on water-resistant billboard paper or on self-adhesive, non water-resistant standard paper, for outdoor walls, it is possible to produce wallpapers on glossy or matte vinyl.

What you get: Rolls, 2ft wide or sheets, up to 5ft wide.

Please note that the artwork is clean and clear vector data, here is a close-up detail --

See also: Wallpaper: Purple Shapes

Labels: 2009, art, interior+design, lyrois, monogram, murals, patterns, print, store+furniture, vinyl, wallpaper

Styles 2008 [Catalogue]

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Concluding the 2008 roadmap, here is the initial stylebook for the screen, or, if you want to, for printing.

The stylebook, as a PDF-file --

See also the introduction.

Selected works are available as unlimited, as well as limited-edition, high-quality, signed and numbered, prints.

Labels: 2008, 2008ss, art, decals, decoration, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, miniatures, pdf, print, stylebook, tableaux, vinyl, wallpaper

Lyrois Styles 2008: The Year in Review

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Pics and links to all flavors and the refs to the 2008 stylebook (PDF).

1. Tableaux Series: Special Ed. White on White

   

2. Murals Preview

   

3. Wallpaper: Purple Shapes

   

4. The Year of the Rat: Color Me

   

5. Stickers: The Mohawk-Logo

   

6. Tees: The Mohawk-Logo

   

7. LEGO Brick Logos and Icons

   

8. Translating High-Res to Low-Res Graphics --

   

9. Tableaux Series: Purple and Black on White

   

10. European Wall Decals

    

11. Miniature Series: Purple Shadows

    

12. Tableaux: On the Wall

    

13. 3D-Vinyl

    

There you have it, see ya in 2009.

Labels: 2008, 2008ss, art, couture, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lego, lyrois, miniatures, murals, pixel+art, script+logo, silhouette, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper

Wallpaper: Purple Shapes

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As promised, wallpaper, purple on white, water-resistant paper in sheets for spot applications or on a roll, three feet wide. The height of the shapes forming the pattern is app. 1".

Please enjoy the first design from the 2008 menu --

Yes, you can even frame it and get lost in this unique pattern.

See also: Wallpaper: Electric Shapes

Labels: 2008, 2008ss, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, wallpaper

Murals Preview

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A partial view of the design draft for an interior wall.

A mural, 5m × 2m -- part of one, that is. Nothing more specific right now...

Between adding and taking away.

UPDATE: The Silhouettes Mural -- finally incarnated.

Labels: 2008, architecture, art, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, murals, preview, silhouette, wallpaper

Introducing the Lyrois S/S 2008 Stylebook

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A partial menu for the year 2008, with spring and summer hints on design, fashion, and art projects, as well as signposts pointing to other things yet to come, explore, and create.

Lyrois: The Stylebook Spring/Summer 2008.

A printable PDF-file is available. Here are the pics --

1. The colors: Purple × Black × White (× Aluminum × Vinyl...)
2. Exploring space: Wall decals in human sizes and wallpapers featuring miniature patterns. Big-size shapes mounted to the edges of rooms, tiny ones on the planes of small objects.
3. Speed: Urban, Streets, Raw, Asphalt, Concrete, Light, Motion.
4. Fabrics: Purple patterns printed on white and black fleece.
5. Luxury: Temple, Marble, Gloss, Stairs, Circles.
6. Cropped and square: Shapes in purple, white, and black on exquisite, white aluminum. Special editions in white on white.
7. Custom: Corporate art exclusively featuring this year's colorways.
8. Finite art: Signature-colored miniature shapes on black vinyl.
9. Innocence: Plants, Leaves, Nature, Organic, Delicacy, Moderation.
10. Decoration and store furniture: Vinyl decals and 3-dimensionally laser-cut shapes in colored acrylic glass.
11. Excess: Gargoyles, Creatures, Stone, Spirits, Weird, Strange.
12. Tees and limited edition prints: 3-color-graphics and one-of-a-kind shirts featuring the dancer's logo.

Enjoy and consider yourself teased...

Labels: 2008, 2008ss, aluminum, announcement, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper