HAPPY NEW YEAR / new website

Happy New Year to all of you! Hope you had a great end of the year, are you ready for 2014? 
2013 has been good to me, but it was also very hectic and busy at times, especially the last couple of months. I would love to slow things down a bit and at the same time making more exciting trips! I have plans to travel a lot this year and hopefully I'll be able to fit this in my schedule :) 

My new website launched last month and I'm very happy that I have an online space now which represents my work in a good way. I've been working on a few cool projects as well and hopefully I can show you some of these works soon. You can visit my website here >

Also I've been thinking a lot of where I want to take my business the coming year, and what goals I want to reach. It's good to think big, right? I do not have a specific plan yet, but I do have a few simple directives written down: 
/ work more efficient, making daily and monthly lists AND stick to it. (this is really hard for me as I'm working on different jobs during the week)
/ start a monthly newsletter
/ using this blog more as an online sketchbook, sharing concepts, ideas and inspirational visuals.
/ get back in the weekend-pattern-collection habit, because it's just so fun and simple to do!
/ maybe integrate my blog and tumblr in my website, so everything is in one place. 
/ I have so many ideas in my head of new collections, prints, personal projects and so on, and this year I really want to focus to try to work on all those ideas and not just think about them...
/ I would love to collaborate more with other brands/designers, just because it's fun to go outside your own bubble and get inspired by others.

I would love to hear your resolutions!

VISUAL JOURNAL / lately

Once in a while I take my camera out and go on a walk. I take pictures of whatever gets my attention when I see a beautiful color, shape or pattern. These are my biggest source of inspiration when I start designing patterns. There's so much beauty to find when taking a closer look! I update my tumblr regularly, you can visit my visual journal if you like!

COLOR / pastel and grey

One of my pictures turned into a nice color group, might use these colors for a pattern collection. 

JOURNAL / august

Here's what happened on Instagram last month:

// A great publication about our product design 'drop' lamp in the Dutch Interior Magazine VTWonen. Very happy with that :) 

// A lot of drawing at home

// Taking pictures in the streets, to update my Visual Journal.

// Coffee and notebooks, can't make to-do-lists without a decent cappuccino. 

> You can follow me here

DIARY / plants at home

One thing I like about summer is to grow a herbal garden inside, I don't have a garden and my balcony is way to windy (I live next to the sea) to grow plants. But I do have a sunny window which is just fine to keep some nice herbs fresh and tasty.

DIARY / new in

 Did some shopping this week, it's all about print and pattern, right?