2D Surface Design

Step 1: Find and document examples of surface design IRL.

1. Geometric, scale pattern no. 9 (Meller 203); 2. Geometric, tile pattern no. 3 (Meller 240); 3. Geometric, tile pattern no. 2 (Meller 240); 
4. Geometric, triangles no. 2 (Meller 241); 5. Art movements and period styles, supergraphics no. 3 (Meller 44); 6. Fruit (or pomegranate) wallpaper (Morris 76); 7. Zebra wallpaper (Crosland 360); 8. Design for silk, Liberty & Co. (Lyons 70); 9. Tablecloth.

10. Sidewalk at University of Manitoba; 11. Holiday Inn elevator door in Winnipeg; 12. Starbucks merchandise at University of Manitoba; 
13. Green and white tea towel; 14. Shirt in closet; 15. Handkerchief; 16. Cover of Jasmine tea tin; 17. Side of Kleenex box; 18. Inside of cereal bowl.

Step 2: Use basic 2D tools to create my own surface design sample in Rhino.

1. polyline > single point > move > polyline 

2. mirror 

3. rotate > trim > mirror 

4. mirror > retrace shapes > copy > paste > move 

5. cell (construction geometry) > create layers 2, 3, 4 > hatch 

6. copy + paste layers 2, 3, 4 > array x/y 

Works Cited

Crosland, Neisha. Neisha Crosland: life of a pattern, edited by Donald Sturrock, Merrell, 2016.
Lyons, Harry. Christopher Dresser: textiles. ACC Art Books, 2018.
Meller, Susan. Textile designs: two hundred years of European and American patterns for printed fabrics organized by motif, style, color, and layout. Abrams, 1991.
Morris, William. William Morris by himself: designs and writings, edited by Gillian Naylor, Little, Brown and Company, 1996.