This week I have been really impressed by Yuko Michishita’s lovely design for Liberty, which has been printed onto a collection of tshirts and bags (read an interview with her). She has really been able to utilise her pattern drawing skills in the design and I love how the owls, the British references and the images of the Liberty building all merge into a 60s-esque, art nouveau inspired circle. Yuko was in my year at Brighton, and I have one of her screenprints on my wall which shows the same awareness of space and use of intense pattern. I do like all of Yuko’s work, (a lot of massive, hugely impressive pen or pencil drawings of mysterious scenes) but this almost symmetrical Liberty design makes me want to make a 3D version….
