Melanie Mikecz
70 // Melanie Mikecz is originally from Wisconsin, USA, but currently resides in San Francisco. Melanie studied at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Art and worked full-time for a few years as a graphic designer, which helped her learn to use the computer as a tool for creating art. Her inspirations are geometry textbooks, kaleidoscopes, tangrams and her own doodles. Clients have included Papyrus, Chronicle Books and Gap. Melanie would love to design something large- scale like wallpaper, and her future ambition is to break into the children’s book arena.
Design Heroes: Paul Klee, Sonia Delaunay, Marc Chagall
Trapezoid Love
This design, created using a digital mixed-media technique, creates the illusion that hexagon shapes have a fold in the centre and are protruding forwards.
Nine Circles
Circles appear to be divided into segments. Harmony is achieved by keeping the centres in each row aligned.
Sixteen Hexagons
Hand-drawn hexagons are divided into sections and filled with various textured colours. Melanie uses a variety of painted materials to build up her artwork, but the final result is always digital.
Red, Red Rhombus
Chevrons have been turned on the diagonal for this design, which creates an interplay with the viewer’s eyes to create a three-dimensional effect.
Be a Gem
Here Melanie captures the vibrancy of jewels with these colourful facets, which echo the cuts made by jewellers.