Cool tool

There's a part of me that really enjoys walking through paper and fabric stores and being able to fully appreciate the texture and tactility of the materials. The problem is there aren't very many 'cool' or 'modern' fabrics or paper available to us locally, so much of what we see around us is rather traditionally or even boring.

Both paper and fabric designs are an interesting study of repetition and pattern and while I've never dabbled in the design of either, it does intrigue me. I recently came across Symmetry Works from Artlandia that could make designer repeats a lot easier. Symmetry Works is an Adobe Illustrator plug-in that will take any vector artwork that you've made and apply the necessary transformations to make a repeated pattern.



The download for the plug-in costs $229 US, so it's a bit pricey as something to play around with, but it does intrigue me...