The Patternbase is a leading textile design studio located in Chicago, Illinois. Directed by award-winning illustrator & surface pattern designer, Kristi O’Meara, The Patternbase specializes in developing unique, trend driven prints and patterns for the fashion, interiors, gift, and paper goods industries. We are committed to creating and providing unique, compelling, trend-focused prints and illustrations that enable clients to become cutting edge in their market place. We aim to help your brand stand out from the rest, by providing the highest quality hand-illustrated designs you can find. Our mission is to be a source of innovative and contemporary inspiration to propel your product forward. The Patternbase also serves as a resource and place of inspiration for designers and pattern lovers around the globe. We strive to provide our community with a plethora of valuable resources to help inspire and educate them throughout their creative endeavors. These include inspirational interviews and discussions with artists whose work revolves around the use of pattern and exhibitions and publications focused on presenting the work of emerging artists to a wider audience. Our goal is to bring creative minds together into a community where they can interact and learn from one another through a series of projects and discussions, and to offer opportunities in which friendships and relationships can be built through creative collaboration. The Patternbase audience currently reaches over 80,000 readers, designers, artists, and relevant members of the international textile and surface design community, and continues to grow daily.