Susse Linton
90 // Susse Linton is half Danish, half Scottish and was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, although she now resides in London. Susse trained at the Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Printed Textiles and furthered her studies with a postgraduate research diploma in Textiles at the Winchester School of Art. Susse works as a freelance designer and creates her own brand of products under the label Susse Collection. She finds inspiration in travel and exploring new cultures, countries and cities. She also loves mid- century design and design from the 1960s and 70s, and finds vintage illustrations – whether posters, graphics for packaging, or children’s illustrated books – very inspiring. Susse’s main aim is to create a strong lifestyle brand that works across different areas of surface design, and she would love to design for Marimekko.
Design Heroes: Vera Neumann, Marimekko, Minä Perhonen
Honeycomb
Susse includes a wood grain texture amongst the transparent hexagons that float across this layered design.
Wig Wam
Textured linen makes a neutral ground for these neat rows of triangles. Susse created this design for a Tigerprint competition based on shapes for patterns for stationery. It was chosen as a top-ten design from over a thousand entries.
Pastel Pop Triangles
Susse likes to work initially with hand-drawn or collaged images and then take her design into the digital process to add more textures and play with different opacities to produce a nice colour pallet.
Semicircles
Susse uses a mixture of textures and patterns to add interest to this ‘stacked’ shape design.
Pastel Pop Lines
A design inspired by Washi tapes creates a nice scattered geometric, with interesting shapes where the stripes overlap.