Each month, we add a new group of patterns to our licensable library, so there is always something new to find. This month, we’re excited to introduce the Swatch Collection. This collection has thirteen different patterns, each with its own colorline. All geometric in nature, these patterns are modern with unexpected traditional touches. The Inspiration […]
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During the pandemic, I discovered (and instantly binged) The Great Pottery Throwdown on MAX. In the throes of uncertainty (pun intended), it was the kind of relaxing television I found soothing. Nice people making stuff in a beautiful setting. What’s not to love? I’ve always loved pottery and appreciate the skill involved in making it. […]
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Winter is my favorite time of year to spend in the studio working out new ideas. If I’m lucky, it’s also a time to travel and find inspiration beyond the studio walls. This winter, Team Design Pool had the opportunity to travel to two very different places. I spent a snowy weekend bundled up at the […]
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Our new Vintage Tiles collection is an homage to classic tile patterns. Kristen designed this collection to give interior designers an option to have the look of tile in spaces where they couldn’t install the real thing, whether because of budget restraints or cleaning requirements. Kristen created the illusion of authentic tile pieces by designing […]
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New in the Design Pool library, The Quilt Collection, designed by Kristen Dettoni. Kristen has always had a fascination with quilts. “The quilts I grew up surrounded by always had a lot of personal meaning. They held a special place in my heart, made by people who loved me.” Kristen wanted to create a collection […]
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This December, we added a new collection of designs sure to jazz up any room: The Zecchino Collection. This group of thirteen patterns adds sparkle to a room without the abrasion issues or added expense of actual sequins. This collection was inspired by Kristen’s enthusiasm for Italian history and hand embellishments. Additionally, she is always […]
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Since our recent big update to the Design Pool website, we’ve been adding many new patterns to the licensable and mapping libraries. We’ve also added new material options as more printers sign up to license our patterns. If it’s been a while since you’ve poked around the website, now is a good time to check […]
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Introducing the Wicker Good Collection, which we know you will think is wicked creative. The name is an homage to Boston, and especially to the place I grew up, the South Shore. It’s a place where Boston accents are thick and everything better than good is wicked good. Why wicker? I designed this collection because […]
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One of the most popular collections in the Design Pool licensable library is The Cryptology Collection. This collection debuted at NeoCon 2021. There it won a HiP Award from Interior Design Magazine and was named a #MetropolisLikes from Metropolis. It was inspired by Elizebeth Smith Friedman and the many women codebreakers from WWI and WWII. […]
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The Ikat Collection, designed entirely by Kristen Dettoni, is new in the Design Pool licensable library. This new collection is inspired by the resist dye technique known as ikat and the beautiful textiles it produces. But first, what is ikat? To describe ikat in the simplest of terms, it’s a resist dye technique. However, unlike […]
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Who doesn’t love a farmers market? I don’t think I know anyone! While living in Providence, Rhode Island, I visited the Hope Street Farmers Market on Saturday mornings to buy fresh produce, flowers, and seafood. (And, of course, pet other people’s dogs.) I loved supporting the local farms and small businesses and buying what was […]
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The Swallowtail Farm collection consists of fourteen different patterns, all featuring plants and flowers. The original concept for this collection was to create patterns for healthcare interiors with a deeper meaning. We wanted the patterns in this collection to be more than just pretty florals. We wanted the florals to have a message of healing, […]
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When Lauren Pignatello was a young adult, she was living on her own in New York City, waiting tables. Without health insurance, she started looking for alternative ways to stay healthy and treat sicknesses. She slowly began seeking out little shops in her neighborhood, looking for dried herbs and talking to people about making her […]
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Our new Swallowtail Farm Collection was inspired by the medicinal properties of herbs and plants and the natural beauty of Swallowtail Farm and Creamery in Whitefield, Maine. The collection highlights six different medicinal plants. Our hope is that it brings an extra layer of meaning to healthcare interiors by highlighting these plants in materials. When […]
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The patterns in the Swallowtail Farm Collection each feature a different plant known for its medicinal properties. We thought that by designing patterns that feature medicinal plants, maybe we could bring some of their magic into healthcare interiors. We collaborated with Lauren Pignatello from Swallowtail Farm and Creamery to meet the plants and learn more […]
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This June at NeoCon 2023, Design Pool is launching the new Swallowtail Farm Collection. The inspiration for this collection was to bring the healing power of medicinal herbs and plants into healthcare interiors through beautiful color and pattern. Ultimately, we want to foster an atmosphere of happiness, health, and wellness in healthcare facilities. Being outdoors […]
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You’re invited to check out the newest feature of the Design Pool website, our new mapping library for interior designers to use in 3D modeling. The inspiration for this feature came from talking to designers at NeoCon and BDNY. Through those conversations, we learned it is difficult to find patterns in seamless repeat to use […]
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The word cornucopia comes from two Latin words: Cornu, meaning horn, and Copia, abundance. How did a horn come to symbolize abundance? It comes from a Greek myth. Amalthea, the name of the goat which fed Zeus as a baby, broke off. In its breaking, it was endowed with the power to be filled with […]
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Fall has arrived, and it seems like everyone is putting the beach chairs away and getting back into the work groove. If it’s been a while since you last looked through our pattern libraries, you’re in for a treat. Over the past couple of months, we’ve added a lot of new patterns to our licensable […]
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Are you registered to view our proprietary library? If not, you might want to sign up today to view our new Natura Collection. In this collection, we want to bring the outdoors inside, particularly into healthcare interiors. There has been a lot of research into the physical and mental health benefits of nature. Today, interior […]
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In the spring of 2022, I went on a creative trip to the Netherlands with a group of women led by Lauren Pignatello of Swallowtail Farms. While this was technically a vacation, life as a creative entrepreneur means that even my vacations usually influence my work. Planning for inspiration, I made sure to pack my […]
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The Museum of Printing “is dedicated to preserving the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment, and printing craftsmanship.” I visited this museum this spring with Color Karma’s Shoshana Burgett and quickly realized I could have spent hours getting lost in this museum. Located in Haverhill, Massachusetts, this museum has small exhibits and extensive special […]
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At NeoCon 2021, Design Pool unveiled The Cryptology Collection. Even though it was our first time exhibiting at NeoCon, this collection made an impression. Two groups in the collection were named Interior Design Magazine HiP Award honorees and our Knowledge is Power group was a HiP Award winner. Metropolis Magazine named the Radio Waves group […]
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The Design Pool Proprietary Library continues to expand with more patterns and new designers, A few weeks ago we added the Swatch Collection, and this week we added String Art, In this collection, there are six different patterns, each with its own colorline. String Art Collection The String Art Collection was named after the genre […]
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We created the Invisible Threads collection out of an urge to bring embroidered textiles into interiors where they can’t usually be. It may sound strange that a type of fabric can’t be used in a room, but materials used in interiors need to pass different tests to be deemed serviceable in different kinds of interiors. […]
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Our new Invisible Threads collection makes its debut at NeoCon 2022. However, Design Pool followers can get a peek at the collection early! The collection consists of ten original patterns, all designed by Kristen Dettoni. The collection was inspired by a Chinese proverb that reads, “An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, […]
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People who don’t work with textiles are usually surprised to learn that the inspiration for the computer was actually a loom. Invented in Lyon, France, by Joseph Marie Jacquard, the machine Jacquard developed used horizontally placed needles to sense the presence or absence of holes in a card. This told the loom whether to raise […]
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In 1965, Anni Albers was already thinking about how humans were losing touch with materiality. In her essay Tactile Sensibility (found in her book On Weaving), she writes, “Our materials come to us already ground and chipped and crushed and powdered and mixed and sliced, so that only the finale in the long sequence of […]
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This month in the Design Pool Proprietary Library we’re introducing a new group of patterns, the Swatch Collection. In this collection, there are sixteen different patterns, each with its own colorline. All geometric in nature, these patterns are modern with unexpected traditional touches. The Inspiration for the Swatch Collection. At any given moment in time, […]
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“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.” Chinese Proverb Who are the invisible threads running through your life, stretching and tangling, but never breaking? Who are the people whose paths have crossed yours and provided […]
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This International Women’s Day, I’m thinking of the women who inspire my work. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, by Jason Fagone, I first learned about Elizebeth Smith Friedman. She and her husband invented the modern science of cryptology and used it to crack enemy codes during both world wars. Elizebeth was a true trailblazer. […]
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I think lots of creative people will probably agree about how fun the journey is from inspiration to finished product. I love running my own business because inspiration from my personal life often finds its way into new patterns in the Design Pool library. For example, a book I read about codebreaking turned into The […]
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This month we are excited to introduce R&R, a collection of health and wellness-inspired patterns for healthcare interiors. This is the latest group of patterns in the award-winning Cryptology Collections. Using our innovative technique of designing with coded messages, we created beautiful designs with hidden messages about health and wellness. When we created The Cryptology Collections, […]
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This fall at NeoCon 2021, Design Pool is introducing The Cryptology Collection, a collection of twenty original pattern designs inspired by code, the hidden messages they communicate, and the women codebreakers of World War II. Designed by Kristen Dettoni, The Cryptology Collection is part of Design Pool’s digital library, the only pattern library created exclusively […]
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When designing the patterns in The Cryptology Collections, Kristen used a unique technique she developed exclusively for this collection. Her initial inspiration was to pay homage to the women codebreakers whose work went unrecognized in their lifetime. What better way to do this, than with codes. Kristen created a collection of patterns, each containing a […]
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This fall at NeoCon 2021, Design Pool is introducing The Cryptology Collection, a collection of twenty original pattern designs inspired by code, the hidden messages they communicate, and the women codebreakers of World War II. Designed by Kristen Dettoni, The Cryptology Collection is part of Design Pool’s digital library, the only pattern library created exclusively […]
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When we read this book by Jason Fagone about Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s work codebreaking, we were quickly bitten by the cryptology bug. Months later, that inspiration manifested into The Cryptology Collections, a collection of pattern designs inspired by code. What about you? Do you want to give codebreaking a shot? Before you get started, let’s […]
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When designing the patterns in The Cryptology Collection, Kristen used a unique technique she developed exclusively for this collection. Her initial inspiration was to pay homage to the women codebreakers whose work went unrecognized in their lifetime. What better way to do this, than with codes. Kristen created a collection of patterns, each containing a […]
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This fall at NeoCon 2021, Design Pool is introducing The Cryptology Collection, a collection of twenty original pattern designs inspired by code, the hidden messages they communicate, and the women codebreakers of World War II. Designed by Kristen Dettoni, The Cryptology Collection is part of Design Pool’s digital library, the only pattern library created exclusively […]
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Elizebeth Smith Friedman is an American hero whose work is largely unknown to most people. Yet, when we learned about her work as a codebreaker and cryptanalyst, she became the inspiration for The Cryptology Collections. Thankfully, in recent years, people are finally telling her story. Elizebeth is the subject of Jason Fagone’s book, The Woman […]
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When designing the patterns in The Cryptology Collection, Kristen used a unique technique she developed exclusively for this collection. Her initial inspiration was to pay homage to the women codebreakers whose work went unrecognized in their lifetime. What better way to do this, than with codes. Kristen wanted to create a collection of patterns, each […]
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This fall at NeoCon 2021, Design Pool is introducing The Cryptology Collection, a collection of twenty original pattern designs. This collection is inspired by code, the hidden messages they communicate, and the women codebreakers of World War II. Designed by Kristen Dettoni, The Cryptology Collection is part of Design Pool’s digital library, the only pattern […]
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Design Pool LLC. is excited to introduce The Cryptology Collections at NeoCon 2021 in Chicago this fall. This collection of twenty original pattern designs is inspired by code, the hidden messages they communicate, and the women codebreakers of World War II. Designed by Kristen Dettoni, The Cryptology Collections is part of Design Pool’s digital […]
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At Design Pool, we understand that licensing designs isn’t always the best solution for every business. For those customers, we’ve put together a special collection of proprietary designs. Every design in this collection is individually priced and available for purchase. With this collection, you pay a flat fee upon purchase with no royalty structure. This […]
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Our collection of proprietary designs has been growing, thanks to recent collaborations with independent designers such as Rebecca Pry. Rebecca is a talented illustrator and designer whose bright, bold, energetic patterns we can’t get enough of. Rebecca’s Design Pool collection is currently for sale in our Proprietary Library. You can gain access to that library […]
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This month, we are excited to announce the release of our new Design Pool Terrazzo Collection. This collection of 9 patterns includes 3 allover textures and 6 patterns created using the textures as design elements in tile looks. All patterns work well on their own and also coordinate perfectly when used together in a residential […]
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At Design Pool we offer a range of solutions for your design needs, including an exciting collection of proprietary designs. The “Paint Paper Scissors” collection is perfect for those in need of an exclusive license or purchase of the copyrights. Rhode Island designer, Paula Becker, designed the first collection in our proprietary design library. Paula […]
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