Awesome Entries & Winner of the JANUARY PATTERN CONTEST!

It's that time again! Time to showcase the entries, and lucky winner, for the first Pattern Contest of the new year! Special thanks to everyone who participated for taking the time to make these excellent patterns! It's always hard to choose a winner and this month was no different!

This month's topic was Food, and it's pretty obvious the majority of people are split into two camps; sweets and veggies! That's cool, I'll take 'em both!

Without further ado, let's announce the winner!




Congratulations to Rebecca Greenwood for making these three awesome patterns! They're all super cute and deserving of praise, but my personal favorite is the orange themed one! So let's call that the winner! See more of Rebecca's excellent work on her site and give her a big round of virtual applause!


But of course it was a hard decision because we had a lot of great patterns submitted this month! So let's check them out!


Heather Tubwon knows the secret to our hearts at Paper Bicycle; Cupcakes! Looks tasty, although I wonder what some of those cupcake flavors are! See more of Heather's work at her site!



Cupcakes were a popular food in this contesnt, and Anne M Bray bring makes an excellent contibution with this super cute pink number! See more wonderful work at her blog!



Previously featured Anna Rodighiero has a very sweet tooth, because pure marshmallow in fluff-form is about as sweet at it gets! The color on this one is just icing on the cake! You can find out more on Anna's website and blog!




Previous Featured Guest Emily Muschinske sent in not one but two super cute, fruit themed-patterns! You can see her work at her website and follow her on twitter @emilymuschinske. Also (and this is super exciting) she's now offering art courses!



Abbey Freundschuh brings more of the cupcake love with this dessert-inspired pattern, but she doesn't discriminate! All desserts are welcome! Check out tons of great work on Abbey's website!



Alexander Bielovich titled his pattern "Mystery Ingredients" so I'm not so sure I'd want to eat whatever it is. But I sure like it anyway! Super colors! Check out Alexander's portfolio!



Good to see some people are thinking healthy! Emily Harris represents the power of the veggie with her gardentime pattern! See more on her site and get inspired on her blog!



Whoa! It's a childhood dream in this this bright, super-fun, sugary-rush of a pattern by Tammie Bennett! See a lot more work on her site and follow her on twitter @tammiebennett!




Melanie Schultz sent two awesome patterns this month and proves a person can appreciate all types of food. From light, fresh and delicious sushi to comforting, greasy fries. Be sure to check out Melanie's site and her ambitious blog!


Thanks again to everyone that entered! We're proud to show off your work! And be on the lookout for the announcement of our next contest shortly!

JANUARY PATTERN CONTEST : Food Patterns!

Hey! We're back with our official contests!
Here you go! The official post with an awesome prize!



So! Here you go! Francesca and I actually collaborated on this travel mug design! It was a team effort! And... it could be yours!

We're looking for food themed patterns to post! Send your best (and tastiest) patterns our way to chris (at ) paperbicycle (dot) com by Wednesday January 25th and you'll be in the running to get our prize! Anything and everything edible counts! Be creative, or be silly, or be serious! Anything goes!

Just send us your pattern at 500 pixels wide, along with your contact information on how we can get ahold of you -- plus any links to your website, blog, etc and we'll post you! All entries will be posted at the end of the month and we'll announce our winner that Friday!

Thanks and good luck!! Can't wait to see your patterns! :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! While I know today is Halloween, it almost feels like it's over already! That's because the Paper Bicycle crew got in the spooky spirit on Saturday!



We decided to go as a gang of skeletons! No, not Cobra Kai, but close! Lindsay, Alyssa and I were joined by Adam and Jesse for a night of parties, dancing, tearing up the club and sweating... followed by more dancing in the streets!



Our outfits and make-up are 100% hand crafted and pretty stylish to boot!

We had a great time, and hope you did too! If you got gussied up, share your DIY costumes in our contest!

SEPTEMBER PATTERN CONTEST, One Day Left to Enter!

Hey!



We hope to see all of your entries for our September Contest!
Everything is due tomorrow night and we'll be announcing the sweet-sweet winner of our awesome bike-themed travel mug!

Just make a pattern about the place you live (could be anything, from the streets, to a favorite place, to the things you do there, culture, sights, people... whatever!) and send it our way! We'll post it and put you in the running to win!

Can't wait! Any questions? Here is the original post with all the details!
Good luck!

SEPTEMBER PATTERN CONTEST!

We absolutely LOVE Minneapolis! What about you? Do you love your city? Your town? Your House? Where do you live? Tell us about it! We are looking for people to submit patterns about your special space - and we'll be giving away this Paper Bicycle Designed PBA Travel Vessel to this month's winner - in celebration of their hometown pride.



Make a pattern about your space and send it to us by Wednesday October 5th, to be entered into our giveaway! Everyone's entries will be featured and one lucky person will get our prize!

Send your patterns to Chris(at)paperbicycle.com at 500px wide in RBG mode and we'll put you in the running! Everyone is welcome to participate (including past and future featured friends!) Don't forget to send us a sentence or two about the pattern you made so we can post it alongside your art!

We're so excited! Let us know if you have any questions! Can't wait to see what you make!

ENTRIES ARE DUE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5TH!

Amazing Entries & Winner of the JULY PATTERN CONTEST!

We are super excited to announce the Entries of the July Pattern Contest! Thank you so much, everyone, for working so hard on these! I am so excited, you don't even know! Twelve fantastic artists took the time to make a pattern for our contest and we had a super hard time narrowing down to our July Pattern Contest Winner!



Congratulations, Anna Rodighiero, for making this amazing (and hilariously cautious) Sunscreen pattern! Oh yes, we DO know how important it is to lather it on before going out! There will be no premature wrinkles for anyone viewing her super cute pattern!
Please take a second and peek at the rest of her artwork! Anna, we are so excited to send you one of the cute waterbottles we've designed! Congratulations and thank you!

It was incredibly hard to narrow it down and we had a tie for second place!

YES. This vicious, yet patriotic, July 4th pattern by Jason Norman is to die for. Jason has a ton of crazy work that can be found on his website! Thank you Jason! This is awesome! For being one of our second place winners, we want to offer you the chance to pick one of our themes for daily pattern!

Our other second place winner is...

Melanie Schultz's roller derby pattern! Man, it makes me want to put on my spandex unitard and push some burly girls over! Melanie's other awesome work can be found on her site! Congratulations, Melanie! We'd love for you to pick a topic for our future daily patterns as a second place prize!

We have a ton more amazing patterns where these came from!


Nozomi Arisawa made this adorable (and tasty) pattern! I would love to share that cookie with her. She looks like she's really enjoying it! Nozomi's other artwork (and some other amazing patterns) can be found here!



Have you ever tried to make foliage repeat? It's super hard! I was really impressed by this naturalistic songbird pattern by Dustin Davis. Take a peek at Dustin's other great work here on his site!



Look at this powerful Star-spangled Pattern by Jamie Kalvestran! Jamie has a ton of great patterns on her sites!
Here are links to her website and blog. Thanks Jamie!




Emily Muschinske made two gorgeous patterns (along with some super fun coordaintes!) for July! All of her bird characters are so sweet! Emily has a ton of fantastic work on her site. She also has a teaching site that looks like a ton of fun! Thanks Emily!



I love the simplicity of Gail Rall's Bastille Day pattern! So bright and bold! Please check out Gail's website and blog for more of her great work! Thank you, Gail!



Greg Lindholm made this super refreshing, intricate watermelon pattern! Watermelon is the perfect summer food! You can't have a backyard bar-b-que without one! I love it! Check out Greg's design blog here.



I love birds! How did you know? Thyra Helgesen made this adorable pattern of a sweet parakeet! I love the little food bits! I recognize those!



Lisa Travis made this fantastic, textural July pattern! I love the small details! This would make a wonderful quilting fabric! Check out Lisa's other great work on her website. Thanks Lisa!



And last, but certainly not least, Emily Balsley made this totally adorable lighning bug pattern! I saw so many of these cute guys in real life only a week ago! We don't get them in the city, so seeing them was a real treat! I love this! See Emily's work on her website and visit her blog for more! Thanks Emily!

Thanks again to everyone that entered! We're proud to show off your work! Get ready for our August Contest, everyone! It'll soon be upon us!

One more day! July Pattern Contest!

Just a day or two left to submit your patterns! We will be posting all entries with a link to your site/blog! Submit a pattern that you made while thinking of "July"!
Be sure to send your pattern along with a note about what inspired you! (That way we can post a word or two about your work!)

Send your patterns to us by 11:59pm on July 25th!

Take a look at the details HERE.

We're so excited to do a giveaway to the "best of July" pattern/artist. Thanks so much, we can't wait to see what you've made!

14 days left to submit to our July Pattern Contest!

Don't forget! We're looking to show off your patterns!



Click here to read the specifics! Send us your patterns by July 25th! Hope to collaborate with you!!

July Pattern Contest! Submit your patterns!

Don't forget! We're looking to show off your patterns!



Click here to read the specifics!
We're a quarter of the way into July already? We can't believe it either! Here is a tiny reminder that we'd love to show off your work! Send us your July themed patterns by Monday, July 25th to be entered!

Does July make you think of picking strawberries with the family? How about going up to the cabin? What makes you think of July? Make a pattern, write us a sentence or two, and send it to us!

We'll hold a "best of" contest and give away a stainless steel waterbottle that we've designed and give you a special feature! We can't wait to see your work!

Vote for Ryan!

The FWA (Favorite Website Award) is a great place to see some of the most creative and beautiful websites in the world. If a website is nominated for an award, it's then voted on by the community.

Our best-est friend Ryan Michlitsch, who works at Resource Interactive, concepted and designed The New Albany Classic website. It's a super slick, clean and fun site that's been nominated for an FWA! So vote for it!



I know it would mean a lot for him to win, which would mean a ton to us! So do us a favor and vote for it here!. You have to register to vote, but it's a site you should probably frequent anyway!

EDIT: Also vote at the Awwwards! He's blowin' up!

Daily Pattern - July Pattern Submission Contest

We are super excited to announce our first monthly pattern submission contest! It's open to anyone that is interested in creating and sharing patterns!

Submit your patterns and win a featured mention on the site and a sweet waterbottle (designed by us here at Paper Bicycle!)

Each month we'll be hosting a call for patterns. You're welcome to submit up to 3 designs each month. The only rules are as follows:

• The pattern(s) must be July themed
• Submissions must be sent as 500 x 500 pixel, 72dpi jpegs and in RGB mode
• Include your full name in the title of your file names
• And include these in an email to chris (at) paperbicycle (dot) com along with your contact information (name, website or blog)
• Patterns must be 100% original and created by you

The deadline for submissions this month is Monday, July 25th.

All entries will be posted the week of the 25th and a winner will be announced on Friday July 29th.

All submissions will be posted with your name featured beneath your work and a click-through to your site/blog.

** all patterns submitted will always remain property of the original artist! **.

Pattern Rally Contest Winners!

We are proud to announce the winners of our collaborative Pattern Rally with Illustration Rally!!

It was really hard to choose the winners! There were so many amazing patterns, we had an awfully hard time picking! In fact, we were so impressed by the entries, we are awarding our Winners with their hard-earned prizes, and we've also decided to choose a runner up for each category and send a special surprise to our runners up!

Without further ado: Our Winners of the Illustration Rally: Pattern Rally!
Congratulations, winners! These are fantastic!

FLORAL!

Winner: Lou Peajeux posted a gorgeous blue floral. We love the toss and the organic details!


Runner-Up: Deborah van de Leijgraaf  posted an adorable floral with super cute little faces!


FOOD!

Winner: Andrew Joyce posted this delicious cookie & biscuit pattern! Love the lettering!


Runner-Up: Nadia Alkhafaji posted a fantastic, ornate apple pattern! The details in these are awesome!


PETS!

Winner: Elisandra posted a dainty cat pattern! All of us here at PB LOVE cats (how did you know?).


Runner-Up: Roxy Marj posted this hand-drawn inspired donkey/burro pattern! Love the small details in this one!

Congratulations, you guys! These are so cool and thank you so much to everyone who participated in our Pattern Rally with Illustration Rally!

Design Sponge - Student Scholarship Competition!

Rules & Details Here

Have you heard about Design Sponge's Scholarship Competition?

For some reason this slipped past me! I know the deadline is coming up, but since I know quite a few students that would be fantastic at this sort of thing, I wanted to post it here incase anyone would have the time to enter!

Design Sponge is offering (and i quote)

The 2010 Design*Sponge Scholarship is intended to assist art and design students in the pursuit of their creative endeavors through financial support.

This year, thanks to Glos and Room & Board, Design*Sponge will be awarding $10,000 in financial awards, to be divided between four winners in amounts of:

Undergraduate Student Awards: 1st Place ($2,500), 2nd Place ($1,500), 3rd Place ($750), and 4th Place ($250)

Graduate Student Awards: 1st Place ($2,500) 2nd Place ($1,500) 3rd Place ($750) 4th Place ($250)

In addition, Glos will be giving all finalists (undergraduate and graduate) the opportunity to develop a collection of creative surface coverings to be sold through Glos! (Any students participating in these collections will retain ownership of their work and will be paid for the licensing of their designs).


Read more at Design*Sponge http://www.designspongeonline.com/scholarship#ixzz16wIQC7E5

Please please enter, you guys!!!

Chronicle Books - Pitch for Charity

It's late and I'm up working on our submission to a very special event.
Chronicle books (one of the best publishers of my favorite books EVER) is hosting an event in San Francisco called "Chronicle Books' Pitch For Charity.

You head to their corporate office, stand in line, and you pay $10 for ten minutes of an Editor's time. You Pitch your book idea for five minutes and they give you five minutes of feedback. The ten dollars goes to Habitat for Humanity, so whatever happens, you've done good.

We're flying Chris down there to pitch our new book idea. Everyone in the office has worked on this project at one point or another. Robin and Mary have been HUGE helps in scanning, ordering, filing, placing, making, doing... almost everything up to this point. (Thank you so much, ladies!!)

Next Wednesday is the day we see how it goes!

If you happen to be in the area - or if you have a book and feel the need to fly out and try your luck at the publishing lottery, you should!

I feel like these chances don't happen enough, so we're going to give it all we've got and see what happens! Wish us luck!

(Images to follow after our meeting!)