Pattern titled “Duo”, by Karel Martens, taken from pattern foundry.com

For my geometric pattern I chose this design by Karel Martens. To me this pattern seems more geometric because of the angularity that is presented. The pattern serves more as a grid in the sense that the basis of the pattern is composed of vertical black and white alternating stripes running down the page. The black and white colors play off each other in a kind of “kick-stand” way (the white diagonal rectangle makes the eye lead down to a reflected black rectangle). The contrasting colors create a complication in determining which color is negative/positive space. Although, It seems that in the vertical stripes set off the opposite color (the black stripe makes the white rectangle pop more). The overall value of the composition is very much middle grounded, because the black and white don’t give the other a hierarchy.

Organic pattern titled “Afriko” by Korner Union taken from pattern foundry.com

For my organic pattern I chose a design by Korner Union. The curvy forms of the trees and the non-angularness of the people made me feel this was more of an organic pattern. This pattern doesn’t really adhere to the principles of spot, stripe, grid in the reading. To me it resembles a painting. The colors are pastel based, Union makes use of bright colors light greens, yellows, and light blues to create focal points to his viewers. A couple of the trees seem to be repeated throughout the overall design, but if you look closely the branches of many of the trees are slightly different than any other on the page – kind of like a snowflake. Some colors like the blues and purples of the peoples shirts interact well with each other because Union has clustered them together. But, those same colors don’t necessarily interact with the greens of the trees as well because of how far they are spaced out.