Meet the Designer – Amanda Bloma
Meet our latest featured artist in The Designer Project…the ultra-talented Amanda Bloma from Bloma Studios – with her textile collection ‘Retro Memories’!
She has put together the most wonderful blog post, diving deep into her creative process and inspirations for creating these amazing designs. Keep on reading to find out more!
Amanda Bloma
Hello there everyone! I am beyond excited to be part of the designer project!! Can’t wait to tell you about my collection but first a little bit about my self! I’m Amanda and I run Bloma Studios! I live on the Sunshine Coast, Australia but I am originally for cold Sweden (no wonder I ended up moving to the “Sunshine” Coast hehe) I work as a freelance pattern designer and I love making fun and colorful patterns inspired by the 60s and mixing it with modern elements.
Collection Moodboard
I knew straight away when digital fabrics reached out to be a part of the designer project that I wanted to make a super fun retro collection using primary colourways mixed with modern elements! So fi rst thing I did was to go on pinterest and make a moodboard and colour palette for my collection!
The Drawings and the start of the collection coming to life!
Once I did my moodboard and I had a clear design direction and vision for my collection it was time to start drawing! I start of all my patterns by drawing them using pen and paper and then I bring them into Adobe illustrator to work on them in there!
After making all the drawings I bring them into illustrator and that’s when they all come to life! I like working in one single document for my collections which could look a bit messy but this way I can see all the patterns together and play around with colourways and composition of each pattern while having an overview of them all together!
the final collection!!
Then I picked out my favourite two colourways of each pattern and put them together in a document to showcase my collection Retro Memories!
Mockups “sixties memories” in brown
My favourite pattern of this whole collection is called “sixties memories” and I think you can see why! This has been such a fun project and I can’t wait to see what you create with these designs! If you want to ask
me any questions or would just like to say hello you can fi nd me at @blomastudios on Instagram!
Much Love, Amanda from Bloma Studios.
Retro Memories takes you to back to the flower power era of the 60s and mixing it with elements from the tropics and the ocean! Get ready for a collection full of colors, retro flowers and abstract elements infl uenced by the 60s era and travels to tropical destinations.
