Patterns

This reading from The New Basics helped me think about pattern making. Reading this before diving into pattern making helped a lot. I learned that patterns can be made in various ways. I can repeat, rotate, color, etc. with my icons to make interesting patterns. Patterns don't even necessarily need to be "repeated". The last example in the reading showed a tiled version of a random pattern. At first glance, it seems chaotic but then you realize it is a repeated tile (and plus they put a light white box around the part that is repeated). Nearly all patterns come from three basic forms: isolated (dots), linear (stripes), and criss-crossing/interaction of the two (grids). "Interesting pattern designs often result from a mix of regular and irregular forces as well as abstract and recognizable imagery." Since we are just starting to make patterns, this was a good reading to kick it off with.