About the Studio

I’m Özde, a surface pattern designer based in the Netherlands. I draw animals, plants, and the occasional moon or star. Foxes, hares, stags, pomegranates, magnolias, songbirds. Things I’ve always loved looking at.

Before this, I trained as an interior architect, and that’s still how I think. When I’m designing a pattern I’m picturing where it ends up: on a wall in someone’s hallway, on a curtain that catches the afternoon light, on a child’s pillowcase that gets washed a hundred times. The job is to make something that holds up there, not just on a screen.

I work digitally, hand-drawn, building patterns one motif at a time. I take on licensing and custom projects with brands and makers who want something honest and a little bit magical.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, I’d love to hear about your project.