Yesterday afternoon, I entered a surface design contest on Spoonflower. The theme? Viva Magenta – the color of the year 2023 as chosen by the Pantone Color Institute. You can check out the challenge brief if you want. I’ll wait.
Along with the announcement of the challenge, they unveiled several designs utilizing just four colors, including Viva Magenta. So in my mind, my color palette would be those same four colors. But when I checked the challenge brief for the color codes before creating the design on my computer, there were eight. I still used only four because that was what I had conceived my design with and it wouldn’t work as well with more. I think I did swap out one of the original colors for something else in the palette, though.
This is my first design using my doodles as elements. I like it and hope you will, too. Especially since I am now working on more designs using the same design and a similar style.