Responsive- Feathr Wallpaper Design

I have decided I want to make a wallpaper based on my experience in Thiland in the summer and more specifically the grand palace in Bangkok, Thailand. I really admire the details within the tiles so I am thinking of making a tiled oriental style wallpaper. 

Above are some close up details of the tiles of the palace

I added some images into Adobe kuler to get some colour paletes 

Looking at shapes from the images of the tiles I started to draw and design my own tile on illustrator

I linked up a test pattern to upload to see how it would look

I was accidentally working in CMYK and the colours changed when I uploaded so I changed to RGB

I liked this pattern however I felt as if it was too white

I went back to looking at my primary images of the palace

I decided to add more colour, I was going to put my design in a square so I change the colour of each tile

Above is the first final tile I made

I then changed the colour of the tiles so the wallpaper would make a pattern when on the wall 

To make the tiles look less flat I added a grainy texture 

http://www.feathr.com/wallpaper/thailand-tiles/

Here is my final wallpaper uploaded onto feathr, I am happy with the final outcome, I think I have developed my drawing skills on illustrator a lot with this brief, I am much more confident using the pen tool. 

Responsive- Feathr Additional Research

I know I want to base my wallpaper on Thailand and more specifically the grand palace in Bangkok, but I want to look at some other designers wallpaper to get an idea of what makes a good wallpaper/ pattern.

Orla Kiely

Orla Kiely is an Irish fashion designer based in London. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars.

Orla Kiely has a very icon pattern design, simple flowers in very muted colours, they are busy but not over powering patterns. They are quite retro and are created with simple vector shapes. 

Laura Ashley

Above are two of Laura Ashleys iconic patterns, I like the colours used they are very girly and would suit a bedroom well.

Cath Kidston 

Cath Kidston does very iconic floral patterns that work well as wallpapers. They also have some wallpaper designs that tell a story like the two above the rodeo and the safari prints. 

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen

I like some of Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's wallpapers as they are quite oriental, I also like how detailed they are, I don't really like his used of colour that much however the wallpaper would suit a variety of different rooms. 

Amy Butler

Here are some of Amy Butlers designs, big, bright and bold floral designs. I love her use of colour, I want my wallpaper to include a lot of colour and be bold. 

Responsive- Wallpaper Research and Ideas

For this wallpaper brief the wallpaper must tell a story and be unique. For it to tell a story I think I want to make it more personal to me yet still be decretive. In the summer I went traveling so I decided to have a look through my photos to get some ideas for wallpaper.

Thailand, elephants outside the Grand Palace and the view from the train traveling through Thailand 

Lumpini Park Thailand 

Grand Palace Thailand

The detail on one of the temples in the Grand Palace 

The view from a shopping centre in Bangkok

Natural Waterfall in Thailand

Thailand

Tree's in Grand Palace Thailand 

Sunset in Fiji 

one tiny island just off beachcomber island, Fiji

Fiji

Venice Beach LA 

The view of the sky scrapers image taken from the top of the rock 

Grand Palace 

I had some great experiences while traveling and saw some amazing things, I would like to transfer my experience into a decretive wallpaper. I was thinking of having separate ones for each place that I admired, I think I want to make one on Thailand and the grand palace.

On bored panda I noticed some amazing mosque ceilings

http://www.boredpanda.com/mosque-ceilings/#post0