Irina Radtke
34 // Irina Radtke is based in Berlin, Germany. She studied Communication Design at university in Potsdam and Communication Design/ Typographic Design in Berlin. She takes inspiration for her work from nature, surrealism, the Bauhaus, folk art (especially traditional Japanese patterns and African wax prints), found objects and old scientific books. Clients have included the German tableware company Design House. Irina would love to design patterns for the fashion industry, and her dream client would be Custo Barcelona. Her ambition for the future is to become a successful pattern designer, and she is open to licensing and commissions.
Design Heroes: Javier Mariscal, Adrian Johnson, Alexander McQueen
Hexagons 3
This design was featured in Texitura 47, the international pattern-design trend magazine published by Circulo Textil. Hexagons and triangles make star shapes, and the fine stripes change direction.
Boxes 1
Irina created this pattern from tessellated diamond shapes and added a selection of bright colours to the black and white.
Lines
Created using ballpoint pens and Adobe Illustrator, this design features fine horizontal stripes arranged in vertical rows.
Structure 4
In this shifting design of diamonds and squares, bold solid areas are overlaid with a network of thin white lines, which sometimes – but not always – align with the shapes beneath.
Hexagons
This design was created using a potato print and then reworked in Adobe Illustrator for Irina’s portfolio, and to use on Society6.