BLUEPRINT Pomelo & Pomelo will be showcasing loads of new, brightly colored prints and illustrations at this year’s Blue Print show. Expect to see delightfully fun artwork for holiday, spring and summer using a variety of techniques like watercolor and digital painting. The artists behind Pomelo & Pomelo all have unique art backgrounds and

surface design market.With over 15 years of experience Purplethum is known for an innovative and creative aesthetic. The collection covers a wide range of categories, including Active, Swim, Home, Tabletop, Holiday, and Conversationals. Art is available for both outright purchase and licensing. Services such as Repeats, Re-coloring and Custom Designs are also available. Clients can take advantage of many years of both sell-side and buy-side experience. Rachel Enders is a Boston-based Art Director, but in her free time, she creates modern illustrations, many of which are largely inspired by her love of history and her pre-revolutionary farmhouse, The Hixson Homestead. This will be her first time exhibiting at a trade show, and she is excited to be offering the licensing world my bold, energetic designs. Her patterns tend to be based on organic subjects, such as flowers and fruit. She has also been trying her hand at fun geo patterns and abstract shapes with bright colors.

signs for homeware, giftware, greeting cards and stationery. Inspiration is gathered and shared within the group, with trends in the markets also followed at trade shows and stores in the UK, Europe and the USA. Revel Designs is run by Cindy Willingham. From her home studio in Maine, Cindy creates art that is deeply personal, a thoughtful, easy blend of color and simplicity that is both fresh and comforting. Her work dangles between the traditional and digital worlds, illuminating the soft pieces of life.Things like local food grown in gardens or harvested in the nearby sea, or the wildlife in her backyard, from deer to peonies, are presented with gentle whimsy for revelling

many years of experience creating artwork for products such as home decor, paper, gift and apparel. A select group of clients include Pier 1, Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, Hallmark, Camelot Fabrics and many more. Prints of Orange was founded in 2013 by Stefan Jans, a textile designer with over 20 years in the field. As CEO and Creative Director, his studio, artists and team strive to design, produce and sell the most exclusive patterns in the industry.The design studio is based in Connecticut and represents multiple textile designers from around the world.The team creates and delivers original, fresh and trend driven, hand painted and digital designs for the Fashion, Interior, Accessories and Paper Goods markets to clients globally. Purplethum is a Harlem-based studio creating on-trend, high-quality prints and graphics for the

The Rafale artists have created some great new themed collections of artwork together especially for launch at the Blueprint show this May, and are really looking forward to sharing them with their customers in New York. Their unique group of artists, designers and illustrators was founded in 1992, and is based in the United Kingdom. They create and develop surface de-

in the magic of the every day. Inspired by the gifts that each day brings, Cindy delights in creating stand alone illustrations, beautiful patterns, and diverse collections. Creation Robert Vernet is one of the leading and most prestigious studios in the world. Based in beautiful Lyon, France, this global studio brings

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