Xmas Brief Update

For my Xmas brief i have decided to focus on patterns. I have wanted to look into how to make patterns for a while now, and as Lorenzo said, I should choose something I'm interested in but don't know a lot about so i can learn something new. I have started researching into patterns on the internet and websites that keep coming up all mention 'The 17 wallpaper pattern groups' they seem pretty simple to understand but are explained in really confusing mathematical ways and strange diagrams. Once I've created my own pattern for each of the 17 patterns ill upload what i think are the best. The brief is about the best/worst and i would like to focus on the best patterns but i don't know in relation to what or how to judge what is the best or what makes a pattern the best....anyway...

Ive been exploring Spirograph designs that I've always been interested in and below are examples of illustrator patterns I've created that have been inspired by Spirograph. I also have examples in my sketchbook from an actual Spirograph toy but for the patterns below i have taken various shapes such as triangles, squares, circles and variations of pentagons, hexagons, heptagons etc etc....




As i am also interested in typography and my new favourite font is times new roman, i thought i would try and create spirograph inspired patterns using this font.



(the reason they are a light cyan colour is because when i started experimenting with the Spirograph patterns i did them on graph paper and that was the colour of the lines on that. I thought it looked interesting and i kept the colour when i took them into illustrator!)