The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Jan Dressler painted her first stencil, "Anna's Garden," on the wall of her daughter's room when Anna was just a baby. Now Anna is 16, and Dressler's passion for stencils has evolved into a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This month the Australian interior designer Greg Natale publishes his second book, The Patterned Interior. Natale is ...