Urban Design Collection

Urban— Design Collection -Awarded the ICFF Editors Award for Materials and Textiles 2021

The Urban– Design collection is a series of illustrated moments of a rapidly urbanizing city. The prints are inspired by urban design, the built environment and its outcome on our cities. It grew out of a series of walks, conversations with neighbors and studio projects. read more here

Building the collection

Overlapping prints define our process

Over the course of the pandemic I began developing a collection that grew out of our daily walks in our city. The shut down brought us into our city in a new way. Matt and I began walking through different neighborhoods and along the way I was collecting moments that would tell this story. Each print that was developed during this time built off of each other creating a color palette as well as scale of prints and line work. All of the prints that began to develop came from the overlapping of the printed material, mimicking that of an urban environment and the detritus that I was documenting.

overgrown

The collection is printed on 100% cotton canvas as a ubiquitous material, easily accessible and durable. The material plays with the color and application of ink on the fabric.

Break The Grid Print

Break the Grid

Breaking the grid is a study of the urban design of our city. It is a city that was developed as a series of suburbs that all took from from the developer who created them. As you meander through our city, like many others, the grids break, creating tension in the system of movement through and around town. This intentional and unintentional shifting can create a feeling of chaos to some but to others a sense of adventure and unexpected moments. Each neighborhood has a unique character and meandering of roads that come from the intended 20th century grid design.

Green + Red Grids Coming together

Everywhere Linen