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Kudos! Colour Coded Clothing

January 23, 2019 by emilywills

Kudos! To Sally Prickett and her twin sister Bec for their gorgeous textiles-led fashion label, Colour Coded Clothing. This locally designed and produced label is just my cup of coffee – bright patterns digitally printed onto natural fibres, cut into low-waste shapes, within boxy silhouettes, manufactured right here in Melbourne.

I first met Sally in 2018 when she joined our Textile & Surface Pattern Design short course in March, claiming “I didn’t know I could draw!” After launching Colour Coded in November, I asked Sally if she’d sit down with me and chat about her creative journey and show us some of her beautiful prints.

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Instagram post 2165301938815414669_10551716 Introducing the lovely Ronin ~ born two weeks ago!! My waters broke a month before our due date and this little fella was so keen to get into the world, he arrived one week later. Bit of chaos, I hadn't wrapped up work, and there was still one week left in our @surface122designschool short course!! But here we are, it's late October and we have a beautiful baby boy. ⁠
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📷Trish Phelan @skylark.photography⁠ Thank you, such precious photos of our little familia xx
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Surprise!! Time kind of flew by over the past eight months ~ @chadobrien and I had intended to announce our pregnancy earlier but the timing never felt right. We are pretty private people and loved having our very own little secret. The things that can happen in a year!?!?⁠
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Big thanks to everyone for the well wishes and support, we are crawling out of the first fortnight and looking forward to the next few weeks!! Because he was a bit early we are taking it slow, and keeping him safe. Apologies in advance if we thwart your advances to come over and meet the little man. Soon... 😘⁠
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Instagram post 2111645700495327681_10551716 Still making my way through Greece sketchbooks, translating sharpie drawings into repeat patterns. ⁠
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Really enjoyed submitting this design to the @slowdownstudio art comp, and was excited to get such positive feedback. I've always worked in printed textile design with the objectives of making repeatable tiles, so it was interesting to think of this as an opportunity to create a non-repeatable design which could exist as an independent artwork. ⁠
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New appreciation for knit and weave, and designers working on placement designs to create one-off artworks. Where composition is King!!⁠
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#surface122 #sketchbook #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #fashiontextiles #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne #digitalprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122
Instagram post 2110986372902796459_10551716 Having fun cutting up and collaging sketchbook components with existing prints. Can you see our Scattered Stripes pattern running through as a basket weave? Might play with dropping vertical lines to make this more basket-looking. Bit griddy right now!⁠
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#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #nextstateprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122
Instagram post 2110236424562108653_10551716 Having fun cutting up and collaging sketchbook components with existing prints. Can you see our Scattered Stripes pattern running through as a basket weave? Might play with dropping vertical lines to make this more basket-looking. Bit griddy right now!⁠
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#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #nextstateprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122
Instagram post 2102745128645894093_10551716 Fronds with Benefits, 2019.⁠
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This design was licensed for men's swim back in 2016. And it has not dated a bit!! These colours are so on trend for 2020 it hurts ~ would love to see them on products again... ⁠
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#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #melbournecreatives  #textiledesign #patterndesign #swim #summer #prints2020 #surfacepatterndesign #surface122
Instagram post 2101873848071922240_10551716 Fronds with Benefits, 2019.⁠
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This design was licensed for men's swim back in 2016. And it has not dated a bit!! These colours are so on trend for 2020 it hurts ~ would love to see them on products again... ⁠
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#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #melbournecreatives  #textiledesign #patterndesign #swim #summer #prints2020 #surfacepatterndesign #surface122
Instagram post 2101539121777101864_10551716 Blue Skies . Summer Swims . Living our Best Lives . ⁠
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#surface122 #patterndesign #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #fashiontextiles #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne
Instagram post 2101144007954712707_10551716 Dreaming of ocean breeze, warm setting sun and evening adventures #takemeback #tgif #summer
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Instagram post 2099397510305228554_10551716 'Kalathi', 2019.⁠
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Simplified repeat tile . Half drop repeat pattern .
Instagram post 2098984810428162042_10551716 'Kalathi', 2019.⁠
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Simplified repeat tile . Half drop repeat pattern .
Instagram post 2098637476624316723_10551716 Sketchbook. Paros, 2019. ⁠
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Sky . Shadows . Sunshine . Sundown . Spaces .
Instagram post 2097982416962320631_10551716 'Kalathos', 2019.⁠
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Colourway 3 ~ Cornflower
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#slowdownartcomp2019 @slowdownstudio #surface122 #sketchbook #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #textiledesign #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne
Instagram post 2096507102608248378_10551716 'Kalathos', 2019.⁠
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Colourway 2 ~ Sunshine⁠
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#slowdownartcomp2019 @slowdownstudio #surface122 #sketchbook #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #textiledesign #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne⁠
Instagram post 2095657498534784489_10551716 'Kalathos', 2019.⁠
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Colourway 1 ~ Cretan Terracotta⁠
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#slowdownartcomp2019 @slowdownstudio #surface122 #sketchbook #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #textiledesign #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne
Instagram post 2094991248057427346_10551716 Design inspiration for days. Lines, shapes, shadow, texture and colours for the sketchbook.
Instagram post 2094243517227463041_10551716 Sure beats the old brick townhouses and apartment flats in our neighbourhood. Not even a setting sun can add warmth and happiness to a Melbourne build. Give me high contrasting neutrals against blue and earth.
Instagram post 2093513705655616152_10551716 Us. 2019 ⁠
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Instagram post 2091300478524358313_10551716 Playing with reducing the colour palette to create a simple geometric toss with inverted linework.

Four colour tests featured, I'm unsure which blue works best ~
3. Cornflower
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4. Aegean Blue?
Instagram post 2091299575499281200_10551716 Playing with reducing the colour palette to create a simple geometric toss with inverted linework.

Four colour tests, featured ~
2. Sunshine
Instagram post 2091299157201344451_10551716 Playing with reducing the colour palette to create a simple geometric toss with inverted linework.

Four colour tests, featured ~
1. Cretan Terracotta
Instagram post 2090667470347235095_10551716 I usually pack a sketchbook on holidays. They often stay in my hand luggage. There never seems to be enough time to get it out and get creative - sleeping and/or lounging around doing sweet FA take precedence. This trip, I made time. ⁠
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Managed a couple of afternoons on the balcony in Paros to translate some of my photos and immediate surrounds into illustrations. Packed six sharpies, had decided on the colour palette before leaving. Warm afternoon tones ~ Cretan Terracotta and Sunshine ~ contrasted against the Aegean Blue. ⁠
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I figured I could keep the holiday vibes alive once I returned to Melbourne in the depths on winter. Slowly been digitising pages from the sketchbook and playing with repeats. My normal, miserable, mid-winter colour feed will be replaced with these little beauties. Winter-Schminter. It's still Summer in Europe!!⁠
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#surface122 #sketchbook #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #fashiontextiles #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne
Instagram post 2089593277946730542_10551716 Cycladic Cylinders ~ 2019

The Cyclades are famous for their white adobe-style houses. The islands share key characteristics of white walls, blue-domed churches, and paved paths. Dreamy AF. Here's my attempt to geometricize the shit out of it... #fira #cycladicarchitecture #surface122 #patterndesign #surfacepatterndesign #brickrepeat #architectural #greece
Instagram post 2089161678377583889_10551716 Trying to keep the holiday vibes alive... Architecturally inspired brick repeat ~ 'Cycladic Cylinders'. Missing the summer sun and days dictated by sleeping in, sauntering the streets, swimming and chowing down on delicious Greek food. 
#fira #cycladicarchitecture #surface122 #patterndesign #surfacepatterndesign #brickrepeat #architectural #greece
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Instagram post 2166004170197097894_10551716 Brassica Foliage © 2019. ⁠
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#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122 #surfacepatterndesign #patterndesign #brassica #foliage #mustard
Instagram post 2165301938815414669_10551716 Introducing the lovely Ronin ~ born two weeks ago!! My waters broke a month before our due date and this little fella was so keen to get into the world, he arrived one week later. Bit of chaos, I hadn't wrapped up work, and there was still one week left in our @surface122designschool short course!! But here we are, it's late October and we have a beautiful baby boy. ⁠
⁠
📷Trish Phelan @skylark.photography⁠ Thank you, such precious photos of our little familia xx
⁠
Surprise!! Time kind of flew by over the past eight months ~ @chadobrien and I had intended to announce our pregnancy earlier but the timing never felt right. We are pretty private people and loved having our very own little secret. The things that can happen in a year!?!?⁠
⁠
Big thanks to everyone for the well wishes and support, we are crawling out of the first fortnight and looking forward to the next few weeks!! Because he was a bit early we are taking it slow, and keeping him safe. Apologies in advance if we thwart your advances to come over and meet the little man. Soon... 😘⁠
⁠
Instagram post 2111645700495327681_10551716 Still making my way through Greece sketchbooks, translating sharpie drawings into repeat patterns. ⁠
⁠
Really enjoyed submitting this design to the @slowdownstudio art comp, and was excited to get such positive feedback. I've always worked in printed textile design with the objectives of making repeatable tiles, so it was interesting to think of this as an opportunity to create a non-repeatable design which could exist as an independent artwork. ⁠
⁠
New appreciation for knit and weave, and designers working on placement designs to create one-off artworks. Where composition is King!!⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠
#surface122 #sketchbook #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #fashiontextiles #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne #digitalprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122
Instagram post 2110986372902796459_10551716 Having fun cutting up and collaging sketchbook components with existing prints. Can you see our Scattered Stripes pattern running through as a basket weave? Might play with dropping vertical lines to make this more basket-looking. Bit griddy right now!⁠
⁠
#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #nextstateprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122
Instagram post 2110236424562108653_10551716 Having fun cutting up and collaging sketchbook components with existing prints. Can you see our Scattered Stripes pattern running through as a basket weave? Might play with dropping vertical lines to make this more basket-looking. Bit griddy right now!⁠
⁠
#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #nextstateprint #melbournecreatives #makers #textiledesign #conventmade #surface122
Instagram post 2102745128645894093_10551716 Fronds with Benefits, 2019.⁠
⁠
This design was licensed for men's swim back in 2016. And it has not dated a bit!! These colours are so on trend for 2020 it hurts ~ would love to see them on products again... ⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠
#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #melbournecreatives  #textiledesign #patterndesign #swim #summer #prints2020 #surfacepatterndesign #surface122
Instagram post 2101873848071922240_10551716 Fronds with Benefits, 2019.⁠
⁠
This design was licensed for men's swim back in 2016. And it has not dated a bit!! These colours are so on trend for 2020 it hurts ~ would love to see them on products again... ⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠
#fashiontextiles #digitalprint #melbournecreatives  #textiledesign #patterndesign #swim #summer #prints2020 #surfacepatterndesign #surface122
Instagram post 2101539121777101864_10551716 Blue Skies . Summer Swims . Living our Best Lives . ⁠
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#surface122 #patterndesign #illustration #aegean #greece #designinspiration #fashiontextiles #geometric #patterndesign #madeinmelbourne
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