PATTERNITY

City Shapes Film: An Animated Audio Visual Exploration for YCN

Commissioned for the YCN awards, our collaboration with animation specialists Plastic Horse brings to life the inspiring patterns, textures and shapes that surround us... Read More

Film, City, Direction, Urban, Everyday Excellence, Geometric

Design in the City: A Pattern Hunting Trip for The School of Life

We were invited by The School of Life to share our insights into finding inspiration in the city. Taking people on a photographic tour through East London, we encouraged... Read More

PATTERNTRIP, PATTERNITY Event, City, Everyday Excellence, Pattern Inspiration, Project

Streetshapes: Hoisery Collection + Installation for Selfridges

Our limited edition hosiery was an extension of our brand philosophy, celebrating the patterns that surround us, everywhere we go. The circles, lines, triangles and... Read More

Hosiery, Surface, Product, Geometric, Collections, Fashion + Beauty

City Explorations on our Barbican Patternitour

Did you know there were plans to tile the whole of the Barbican in white porcelain? Just one of the nuggets shared with the pattern explorers who joined us at the... Read More

City, PATTERNITRIP, Community, Barbican, Nature, Events

Pattern Inspiration to brighten any day!

We encounter pattern in everything we do – from the food we eat to the places we walk through. Thank you for sharing these golden-hued finds with us! We enjoyed... Read More

Yellow, City, Everyday Excellence, #PATTERNITY, Community, Research

Uncovering the Graphic Side to the City

Colour, form and pattern burst out of photographer Fabrizio Raschetti's work. His images capture corners and facades of urban spaces, drawing out the detail and vibrancy... Read More

City Textures

PATTERNIGRAM, Everyday Excellence, Research, Shadow, Tree, City

City Structure

Photography by Daniel Everett Read More

Architecture, Blue, Incidental + Everyday, Web, Triangle, Structure

Finding inspiration in the city

Considering the nature of modern city life, and how inspiration lies around every corner, at the launch of our collaboration with Superga available online at superga.co... Read More

PATTERNIQUOTE, Incidental + Everyday, Everyday, Ritual, Explore Interconnectivity, Everyday Excellence

City Contrast

Grid, Block, Architecture, Incidental + Everyday, Blue, New York

EVERYDAY SIMPLICITY: CELEBRATING CITY TEXTURES FOR SUNSPEL

We teamed up with purveyors of understated luxury clothing Sunspel to celebrate the power of everyday simplicity. Visitors enjoyed a series of hands-on creative... Read More

Bespoke Event, Texture, Hands on Pattern, PATTERNITY Product, Everyday Excellence, Fashion + Beauty

Playing with Reality in Urban Spaces

Artist and photographer @delphineburtin is interested in 'accidents' of sight – when our brain plays tricks on us – and has explored this phenomenon in a series of... Read More

Art + Design, Incidental + Everyday, City, Zigzag, Illusion, Concrete

Navigating Neural Street Connections

Navigation apps and GPS are making our brains lazier, scientists say. Researchers from UCL are exploring the physical changes occurring as we use this modern technology Read More

Brain, Anatomy, City, Systems + Learning, Technology + Innovation, Urban

FINDING FLOW PODCAST: LISTEN AGAIN

Missed the live show? Listen again here We’ve delved into the PATTERNITY archives to weave together an hour-long radio show with Agile City and Clyde Built Radio... Read More

Music, Sound, Resonance, Water, Wave, Flow

IN THE PINK

Incidental + Everyday, Textiles, Pink, Line, Stripe, Layer

A Proposal to Expand Pedestrian Patterns

Exploring a city on foot can be an inspirational source of patterns, as well as promoting a greater understanding of our environment and connection to the places that we... Read More

Society + Culture, Travel, London, Spot, Wellbeing, Behaviour

Primary spots and reflections Community Inspiration

We've gathered some of our favourite #PATTERNITY submissions from around the globe. Starting with a polka pillar thanks to @makenewthingsandthinkaboutthem at... Read More

Everyday Excellence, #PATTERNITY, Circle, Spot, Black, Refelect

Formal Celebration

To mark the centenary of the art and architecture movement that advocated pure abstraction and simple graphic compositions - De Stijl - The Hague turned its city hall... Read More

Art + Design, Architecture, Primary, Grid, Square, De Stijl