Bethan Janine
09 // Bethan Janine was born in Sheffield, UK, and studied Fashion Design at Birmingham City University. After working in London for five years as a womenswear print designer, Bethan returned to her Sheffield roots and now divides her time between working for a local design studio and freelancing for a range of global clients, designing for home, fashion, stationery, editorial and packaging. She is passionate about nature and all things flora and fauna, and also finds inspiration in Scandinavian design, Japanese kimonos, botanical drawings and children’s book illustrations. In the future, Bethan would like to work on her own range of cards and gift wrap, to illustrate for children’s books, and to design for Paperchase or Anthropologie.
Design Heroes: Charley Harper, Sanna Annukka (see pages 248–51), Liberty of London
Arrows Ditsy
Drawings of arrows evolved into this pretty ditsy pattern.
Spots & Stripes
Bethan combines mark making and a bold colour palette in this stripe design, hand drawn and painted then repeated and coloured digitally in Adobe Illustrator as a personal project.
Floral Geometry
Linear plant sketches and simple geometric shapes in place of leaves give this design an organic yet stylized look. The work was hand drawn then digitally repeated and coloured in Illustrator as a personal project.
Triangles
Bethan mixes simple paper cut shapes and hand-drawn motifs to create a fun geometric pattern. Part of a personal project for the 365 Patterns challenge.