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“Bright” is for summer
When the rest of the world is moving into the winter, we are here in Australia getting ready for a sweltering season, that is sizzling in colours and bursting with summer prints.
Did you spook or get spooked?
Leading on from last week’s post on Halloween (did you spook or get spooked?) Dia de Muertos is forming the base of our inspiration for creation this weekend. The Mexican Day of the Dead festival which celebrates the life of…
The Witching Hour Draws Near
Next week is Halloween people. Time to get your print scare on. Now Australia has only in recent years, embraced the whole October 31st party vibe, that is more traditionally seen as an American festival of all things spooky. And…
Photoshoot
We are kicking off this week with images from our scarf photo-shoot in which we tried to capture an amazing scarfs that were designed by fashion students from St George TAFE for our “Local Produce” woman’s scarf SS14 competition. Here…
Local Produce
Earlier this year Digital Fabrics took forward a competition for the students at ST George TAFE to design a scarf inspired by the theme ‘local produce’ students had to research what this meant to them and interpret it into a…
Get Up High to Look Down Low
This week we’re going up sky high to get a bird’s eye view of some great ideas to feed into the repeating pattern melting pot of textile design. And having seen a few on the runway shots from New York…
Floral for Spring
The Spring 2014 RTW Fashion shows have commenced with New York first to start showing the talented designers latest collections. One trend so far that has been featured in almost all the collections is Floral’s, in the words of Miranda…
Optical Illusions
Carrying on from our last blog post, we are still looking at the impact of texture in prints. Today we are inspired by the Swedish label ACNE Studios. When you think ACNE Studios, you think classic shapes, beautiful fabrics and…
Get A Little Touchy Feely
If the digital printing form on textiles where it’s possible to render fine detail and subtleties in colour, adding texture to your design can enhance your print, lifting it beyond the end product into a realm of its own. There…
Read Between The Lines
Big and bold combinations (L-R) Etro, Dolce & Gabbana, Paul & Joe Its always around in some capacity, from season to season there’ll be a stripe or two, a polka dot and even a check. But recently it seems the…
Faux Nature
At Digital Fabrics we love Flowers and anything Flora or Flora inspired. This weeks Flora inspiration comes from Isabelle Menin a Belgian photographer. Isabelle Menin began her artist career focusing on painting, after several exhibitions, she decided to quit painting…
Novelty Prints
Novelty prints seem to always be in fashion, they appear in various forms from being a bold placement image or an all over print. We have a few Novelty prints in our Design Library for purchase, if you are looking…