Surface Designs

What is a surface design?
It is an ornamental enhancement to any surface to enhance it's visual appearance.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been paying more attention to the different surface designs that surround us.

Things such as:

The layout of these bricks, each in their own unique pattern. Yet all of them geometric (due to the nature of bricks being typically rectangular, or square)




Or some of these designs that were on the floor. Using two different colours/types of wood for a visual effect. Or perhaps the carpet I see everyday, and take it's odd designs for granted.




I do a fair amount of work with fabric, in which surface design is a very important part of some processes. The use of dying, stitches (such as embroidery and cross stitch), as well as printing, to create a design on the surface of these fabrics.



    


And of course, the ornamental carvings that have been done on wood for many years.



With some of these designs in mind, I decided to create some of my own 2D surface designs using Rhino3D

This one was inspired by some of the lines, and patterns on some of the fabric surface designs, and the carvings on the wooden door.






I based this one on some of the brickwork designs.



For this one I played with numerous circles, and the hatching and colouring of different layers.
 

For this last one I also played around with using one shape, and seeing what sort of pattern I could make with just the one shape, in this case I used numerous pentagons, and just two or three different colours.

 


I think I like the last two the most, they have an interesting, floral look to them.

Which one do you like the most?