Since 2000 I've been designing christmas characters for paperchase, mainly for christmas cards but occasionally used across roll wrap (and one year made into all sorts of merchandise). Each year it's a new challenge, same old santa et al, but how to be different and contemporary each year poses a challenge, last year though I discovered printpattern.blogspot.com. This excellent blog by Bowie Style shows passionate dedication to her chosen topic, print and pattern. Updated to the point where it's hard to keep up, it's not all my cup of tea there's such a variety on show, but I always find much to inspire if your into contemporary design and if you're thinking of designing for the likes of paperchase etc then a visit here could be a good starting point, oh and trawl through the archives it's worth it ( and she featured me too April 2008 thanks Bowie style !)
