Blog | Repper Patterns

Melisande is one of my favourite origami artists. Her work keeps on amazing me and I keep hoping I will have some more time to do some of these amazing tessellations myself.

Via the Origami Tessellations Group on Flickr.

We love this pencil cabinet and the simple pattern all those wooden sticks create. An aww, the work! Great design by Sebastian Errazuriz.

via Design Boom

This is an interesting concept, spam on your wall. And it has pattern goodness!

Spam Ghetto

Our friends at Ponoko have come up with a great new contest to let their community meet the awesomeness of Repper patterns.

The Contest

This month we’re giving away 5 free licenses of the delightful Repper tool, a simple application that lets you create repeating patterns.

With Repper, you can start with any source image, zoom in or out, change the tiling, edit colors on the fly, and export your repeating unit or the entire surface as a raster file. It does not export files in vector format (yet), but you can convert them using a vector editing application like Illustrator.

People have applied their Repper generated patterns to web and graphic designs as well as product design and interiors — and yes, a laser etched banana.

How would you apply a Repper pattern to a Ponoko project?
The top 5 answers will win a free Repper license courtesy of Dutch developers Studio:Ludens.

How to Enter:
Leave a comment below telling us about how you would use a Repper pattern with a project you could make using Ponoko.

Only comments describing projects that could be made with Ponoko’s digital making methods (3D printing & laser cutting) will qualify to win.

Prizes:
5 winners will each receive 1 free license to Repper, a €29 ($39) value.

Deadline:
Contest closes 16 March at 10p.m. PST.
People from the Ponoko and Studio:Ludens team will choose 5 winners total.
Winners will be notified on 17 March 2011 and announced in an update to this contest announcement.

For more information & inspiration:
• RepperPatterns.com
• http://repperpatterns.com/community/

• Ponoko.com
• http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/design-it-yourself

Velux is sharing design proposals for their shades that are both fresh and repetitive (the good kind). Designed by Karim Rashid, you are sure to get some well thought-out patterns. You can vote for your favorite here, if you can read Italian.

We do wonder though: why not let people design their own shades with Repper? Would you like to pattern your own shades or curtains? Let us know and if there is enough interest, we’ll give Velux a call.

via designboom.com

I just love this organic work (ok, it is not a geometric repeating pattern per se, but who cares?) by US-based artist Justine Ashbee. And apparently her artistic weapon of choice is a Sharpie. Kudus!

via Engrave Your Book

Welcome to our blog-based game : “What the Pattern?”.
The premise is simple:

1. Take a look at the pattern
2. Guess the subject of the original image
3. Post your answer in the comments
4. When the right answer is giving by one of the commenters, he/she will win a unique patterned gift.

The right answer has been given by Steed Griffin. Congratulations!

iPad Wallpaper by Stefan

Stefan created a very nice wallpaper for his iPad with Repper.

We’d like to present to you the winners of our pattern design contest!

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iPad Case Sleeve by Gadget Armoure

Cover your iPad with patterns with the lovely cases made by Gadget Armours.