Mary Beth Freet
www.pinklightdesign.com/artist/mary-beth-freet
68 // Mary Beth Freet is originally from a small town in Washington State, USA, but is now based in Seattle, where she studied for a BFA in Visual Communications at the University of Washington. Besides doing her own design work, Mary Beth is also the agent and creative director of Pink Light Studio, where she represents herself and a number of talented designers from around the world. Mary Beth works with clients to license her artists’ designs on all types of products. Currently, her designers’ work can be seen in the USA, Europe, South America and Australia, and they are now moving into the Russian market. Mary Beth’s main design inspirations are nature and animals. She loves developing whimsical florals and characters that are modern and unique. Her designs have been sold in Target, Papyrus and the Apple Store, amongst others. Her dream project would be to design for little girls’ bedrooms, creating the bedding, rugs, wall decor, wallpaper and upholstery and bringing it all together. Mary Beth has many ambitions for the future, including plans to develop her own product line over the next few years.
Design Heroes: Jonathan Adler, Kate Spade, Tricia Guild
Line Art Gallery Floral
The coloured stamens of these flowers look very dramatic with their fragmented shapes bursting from the centres of each bloom.
Line Art Gallery
Line Art Gallery Dance Rounded rectangular outlines of PL913 differing widths are layered over each other to build up a lively and colourful print with a retro feel.
Line Art Gallery City
A colourful array of lines criss-cross and weave around each other in this striking design.
Line Art Gallery Bursts
Kaleidoscopic starbursts are kept in order by an arrangement of neat squares.
Line Art Gallery Stripes
This stylish print features columns of short horizontal stripes that are deliberately misaligned in order to show the division between each row.