During the past months I have created several new designs for birthday cards. This time, I mainly played around with the shape(s) that I randomly distribute over the card. In one of the designs, the basic shape is a beer bottle, in typical beer bottle colors. For another design, I started experimenting with the use of letters instead of shapes; but still with randomized locations, colors, rotations and sizes.
Personal greeting cards
Following-up on several of last years’ designs, I continued making more personalized greeting cards. First, I made one for my mother’s 70th birthday, based on butterfly-like shapes. Another one is based on the facade of the former US embassy in The Hague, for a good friend who is into architecture.
Bi-directional patterns
Inspired by the restaurent wall decoration of the Marriott hotel in Villahermosa, I started playing around with patterns that look the same in both the horizontal and vertical directions of the design. These bi-directional patterns can be made using various base shapes, such as diamonds, pentagons and squares. For the colors, I used my all-time favourit purple, and also tried another color scheme using yellow and turquoise.