Julia Kostreva is a California-based designer who creates beautiful products in her studio in San Francisco. (I previously featured her work as one of my favourite calendars of 2014, see it here).
She sells her home goods and accessories on her online shop and this summer they include black and white wanderlust posters as well as more colourful iPhone covers (my favourite is the ‘Stay Foolish’ poster!). For these she uses a mixture of hand painting, patterns and photography to create simple yet uplifting designs. She says:
My designs are one part joy, one part exploration, one part craft. I draw stories from textures found in nature, vintage patterns, and colour combinations from world travels.
A lot of my pattern designs are created by hand through painting with sumi ink. Then I scan the artwork into the computer and go through a design phase where I construct the artwork into a pattern, bring in colours, make repeats. Everything starts black and white, and eventually turns into something colourful.
You can check out her shop here. She also has ace Pinterest boards.
Bottom six images: Jennifer Chong, rest courtesy Julia Kostreva
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