About Steve and The Lake House Studio

Steve Duncan is an award-winning Artist. His Lake House Studio specializes in vintage-style design and illustration. Currently Steve is an illustrator developing stationary lines for Carta Bella Paper Company. Along with his work at Carta Bella he accepts freelance projects. His past client list includes Disney Consumer Products, Universal Studios Parks, Williams-Sonoma, Scholastic Books, Inc., Gerber Chidrenswear, October Afternoon, Basic Grey, ModifyInk, and many more. He has served as Art Director at FingerPrints of California and Rebel Entertainment Arts and Licensing, and Creative Director at Suzy's Zoo and Agenda 9.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

On Patterns

One of my favorite things to design are patterns. I find patterns both entertaining to design and creatively challenging. Repeat patterns are the most difficult, having to match seams so that the pattern will repeat infinitely. I create all my patterns in Adobe Illustrator CS.


Here are a few of my most treasured patterns that I have created.


Chrysler Building - Art Deco Pattern featuring images of the Chrysler Building
This is my favorite pattern that I've ever created. It was for a project that was never produced.



Christmas Wonderland - Carta Bella Paper
This is my second favorite pattern that I have created. It looks as though it's a woodcut image.



The Great Outdoors- Carta Bella Paper
I created this Art Deco inspired design of retro fireflies for the line The Great Outdoors.



Country Kitchen  - Carta Bella Paper
I love this pattern. It reminds me of times spent in my Aunt Cleo's country kitchen when I was a child.


Daisies - Carta Bela Paper
I love the simplicity and retro feel of this pattern.



Cowboy Country - Carta Bella Paper
When I received this project I was energized by my memories of the wallpaper that my parents had put up in my bedroom as a child.



Baggage - Carta Bella Paper
I'm a huge cruise enthusiast and it was so much fun researching all of the ephemera that I used to inspire the design of this paper.



Are We There Yet? - Carta Bella  Paper
I felt like I was quilting when I created this pattern. I borrowed images from other designs that I had created for this line and used them in a checkered pattern.



Cartopia - Carta Bella Paper 
It was fun to work mainly with fonts and icons to create this fun pattern.


The next four patterns are from
Space Academy - Carta Bella Paper 










Here are several patterns that I designed for Metropolitan Girl - Carta Bella Paper
It's a retro-inspired fashion line for women of all ages.








Here are a few patterns that I created for Basic Grey. They are more contemporary in design than I normally do.












And lastly, some Christmas patterns  that I had a lot of fun creating for Carta Bella Paper.




























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