First wallpaper commission

First wallpaper commission, Moderate Studio journal, 2013

My first wallpaper commission, designed, printed and installed at the 3 Wise Monkeys in Todmorden, and the first wallpaper of many. The pattern is the interlocking geometry I keep coming back to, printed up in a few colourways, deep reds and oranges, blues and yellows, and hung on the walls of the venue. It is still up there.

This was the first time the flat printed pattern went onto a wall as proper wallpaper, at room scale, rather than staying a single sheet. Getting a repeat to line up across a whole wall is a different discipline to printing one poster, and this Todmorden job was where I worked that out. The leftover roll went on to a second life later, out on the street as the board on the Vera memorial.

First wallpaper commission, Moderate Studio journal, 2013
First wallpaper commission, Moderate Studio journal, 2013

See also Remembering Vera.

Part of The Pattern Works.