Farmidable

View our complete gallery of free pattern tiles for your desktop.

Julia Rothman is an illustrator and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. She’s got some amazing pattern work. Spending a bit of time on her site is well worth it. Julia also behind the blog, Book By Its Cover, where she shares books she likes and has collected over the years, sketches of her work and selections from the sketchbooks of other artists. You could spend hours looking at it all.

Here’s an update on this pattern we’ve got in the works…

Sorry it took so long to get this one out. My Mac was out of service for four and a half days. This illustratated pattern came right out of the Farmidable sketchbook and is a tribute to Indian artist Nandalal Bose. The download file contains three versions, an orange, a red (which is pink) and a not for cowards yellow. Hope you enjoy. Click here to download it in our gallery.

If you’re ever in the Design District of San Diego check out Igloo. The Chalkboard Skateboard is great, and the shop keeper will tell you all about the Design District, where to get good eats and where to see great art, design and illustration, which is what Farmidable is all about.

Also, we’ll be releasing a new pattern on Monday. Make sure you check back!

As promised, we’ve released a new pattern today! Pine Boughs is available in the gallery, so click on over and download it. You’re guaranteed to find peace and serenity amongst these idyllically drooping boughs of pine! It may be noted that this is a somewhat belated entry in the line of Farmidable patterns inspired in some way by Japanese wood block prints and samurai therein.

This is another prelim for Building Boxes. We’re poised to be releasing two new desktop wallpaper patterns in our gallery over the next two weeks. The first hopefully on Monday, 4/21, and the next pattern on Monday 4/28. Maybe we’ll make that a pattern. In the meantime we’ve got some great posts in the works and will do our best to post every day.

So we’ve got another new illustrated pattern coming up the pipeline called Pine Boughs. It’s gonna be a good one so check back for updates and to see what else is comming.

Uppercase has a great series of books featuring pattern styles from regions of the world like Scandinavia and Japan as well as patterns from the modern movement and nature.

Spring is here! Thought we would take a moment to revisit a few of our patterns that are fit for the season. Check them out and others in our gallery.

Chalk one up for our first comment contest winner! This chalkboard pattern is sure to bang the dust out of your erasers. Custom created for Abbey of Aesthetic Outburst, and How Now Design, the patten comes in black and green. Download it in our pattern gallery. You can also see the development of this pattern on our comment contest page.

To all those who commented on our site and didn’t win thank you and don’t you worry. You’ll be entered into round two. We’ll be drawing a new winner shortly, so comment on some posts and get your own custom pattern

If you’re looking for a great site for and about fonts check out Hoefler & Frere-Jones. The site has a simple nice design and a lot of type to look at. Looking at fonts when they are presented well is a lot of fun. I think this calls for a pattern based on type! I’m sure we can muster something up.