FayeBrownDesigns.com is live

My new website is live and kicking! This website focuses on my print work from branding - surface pattern - wedding invitations. New projects will be added regularly. I owe a massive thanks to my husband Simon Brown who built the site for me. I think I might have been an awkward customer... Trip to the local indian restaurant might be in order to say thank you! 

Hope you all like the website and the work. Please get in touch with any commissions or licensing enquires. 

If you are interested in my animation work please head on over to www.fayebrown.co.uk. 

Surface Pattern spotlight

Almost a year ago I enrolled on an online course called The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design ran by entrepreneur Beth Nicholls and the fabulous designer Rachael Taylor. The course was broken down into 3 modules - Designing your way, Creating your professional identity and Monetising your designs. Having spent 10 years working in design and animation I initially wondered how useful I would find all the modules but I soon realised the world of television and motion graphics is quite different to Surface Pattern Design! I knew Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator pretty well but the course included technical tutorials specifically for setting up repeating patterns, preparing your designs for production and quite a few other tips and tricks I had no idea about. The tutorials were also very clear for complete beginners. 

As you may have guessed, I can't recommend this course highly enough for anyone wanting to get into Surface Pattern. Along the way we shared our progress with fellow students in a private flickr group, entered live competitions and read many interviews from inspiring designers and studios. Everyone took it at their own pace, fitting it around full time jobs, new babies, family life and even traveling! 

So as I launch my brand new website www.fayebrowndesigns.com and this brand new blog it seems fitting to kick off with some gorgeous work from graduates and new friends from the course...

Above - BB Feathers

Mel Smith Designs

Above - Floral Bloom

Natalie Alexander

Just in time for Christmas, Katy Clemmans' Christmas range. All hand sketched then digitally coloured. Available to buy from Folksy.

Katy Clemmans

Above - Yellow Circles

Jolene Heckman

Above - Super Seahorses

 Veena Solanki of ‘Veenart Style’

a big hello!

Welcome to my brand new blog launched at the same time as my website www.fayebrowndesigns.com
Having spent 10 years working in animation and after the birth of my child I decided it was time to embrace my other passion of print design, branding and surface pattern. This blog will keep you up to date with my latest work along with profiling other designers and lots of inspiration found far and wide.