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Creating Geometric Tracery

Creating Geometric Tracery

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IOS Icon Mask Corner Curve

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Icon Design - The Book

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Design an Arts & Crafts Pattern

Design an Arts & Crafts Pattern

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Drawing Islamic Geometric Star Patterns

Drawing Islamic Geometric Star Patterns

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Design a Monochromatic Brick Pattern

Design a Monochromatic Brick Pattern

Decorative Brick Pattern This is the third class of this Geometric Surface Pattern Design Series. In this class we explore some of the terminology used to create decorative patterns. It’s not an exhaustive list of terms. It is just enough…

Chris Heath October 31, 2017 Design, Surface Pattern Design No Comments Read more

Design a Simple Decorative Band

Design a Simple Decorative Band

Decorative Bands Have ever struggled with designing a decorative band that looks balanced and in proportion? To be successful, a pattern requires a sense of rhythm, and to achieve this rhythm, geometry plays an important part. This week, I published…

Chris Heath September 22, 2017 Design, Surface Pattern Design No Comments Read more

Design an Arts & Crafts Decorative Pattern

Design an Arts & Crafts Decorative Pattern

Arts & Crafts Class Now on Skillshare If you are interested to learn how to create an Arts & Crafts pattern, pop over to Skillshare. I have published my first class. Over time, I’ll add more classes that will step…

Chris Heath August 3, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

How to Build Apple’s iOS Icon Grid

How to Build Apple’s iOS Icon Grid

I thought I’d share how to build the iOS Icon Grid by way of a simple animation. This is the same method that is described step-by-step in the book ‘Icon Design‘. Phi – Golden Ratio Phi (golden ratio) plays an important…

Chris Heath February 6, 2017 Design, Golden Ratio, Icon Design No Comments Read more

Stencilling Auckland’s Former Supreme Court

Stencilling Auckland’s Former Supreme Court

Constructed between 1865 and 1868 in the Gothic Revival style, much of Auckland’s former Supreme Court (now Old High Court) building was restored in the late 1980’s as part of the High Court redevelopment. Stencilling features prominently in the restoration of…

Chris Heath September 20, 2016 Architecture, Design, Stencilling No Comments Read more

Round Towels and the Golden Ratio

Round Towels and the Golden Ratio

Designed for Kelly and Jo from ‘You, Me and the Dream‘, these round towels are based on the same proportional grid system that I use for designing icons. Golden Ratio The golden ratio was used to lay out the decorative elements of both…

Chris Heath April 27, 2016 Design, Golden Ratio, Surface Pattern Design No Comments Read more

Drawing Islamic Geometric Star Patterns

Drawing Islamic Geometric Star Patterns

Geometric Designs The following six geometric designs were drawn by following the instructions in Draw Islamic Geometric Star Patterns by Eric Broug. With seven examples, the book is a great introduction to drawing Islamic geometric patterns. The process involves drawing a grid…

Chris Heath December 10, 2015 Architecture No Comments Read more

Coming Soon – ICON DESIGN UPDATE – Sneak Peek

Coming Soon – ICON DESIGN UPDATE – Sneak Peek

Icon Grids for iOS, OS X, tvOS and Apple Watch I’m really excited to announce the long-awaited update to Icon Design. With two new geometrically derived icon grids for OSX, a tvOS icon grid and two Apple Watch grids, you…

Chris Heath October 23, 2015 Icon Design 1 Comment Read more

New Zealand Flag Design Submissions – July 2015

New Zealand Flag Design Submissions – July 2015

With a referendum on whether to change the New Zealand flag, the opportunity to submit a design is an opportunity that is not to be missed. Apart from its similarity to and being mistaken for the Australian flag, there isn’t…

Chris Heath July 12, 2015 Design, Flag Design, Golden Ratio, Root Three 1 Comment Read more

Geometric Tracery

Geometric Tracery

The Power of Form by R. W. Billings Years ago, I used to frequent the second hand book shops around Auckland for books on architecture and geometry. For the princely sum of $11.00 I picked up an autographed book called…

Chris Heath October 4, 2014 Architecture 1 Comment Read more
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From the Blog

  • Design a Monochromatic Brick Pattern

    October 31, 2017
    Decorative Brick Pattern This is the third class of this Geometric Surface Pattern Design Series. In this class we explore …Read More »
  • Design a Simple Decorative Band

    September 22, 2017
    Decorative Bands Have ever struggled with designing a decorative band that looks balanced and in proportion? To be successful, a …Read More »
  • Design an Arts & Crafts Decorative Pattern

    August 3, 2017
    Arts & Crafts Class Now on Skillshare If you are interested to learn how to create an Arts & Crafts …Read More »
  • How to Build Apple’s iOS Icon Grid

    February 6, 2017
    I thought I’d share how to build the iOS Icon Grid by way of a simple animation. This is the same …Read More »
  • Stencilling Auckland’s Former Supreme Court

    September 20, 2016
    Constructed between 1865 and 1868 in the Gothic Revival style, much of Auckland’s former Supreme Court (now Old High Court) building …Read More »
  • Round Towels and the Golden Ratio

    April 27, 2016
    Designed for Kelly and Jo from ‘You, Me and the Dream‘, these round towels are based on the same proportional grid system …Read More »
  • Drawing Islamic Geometric Star Patterns

    December 10, 2015
    Geometric Designs The following six geometric designs were drawn by following the instructions in Draw Islamic Geometric Star Patterns by Eric Broug. …Read More »
  • Coming Soon – ICON DESIGN UPDATE – Sneak Peek

    October 23, 2015
    Icon Grids for iOS, OS X, tvOS and Apple Watch I’m really excited to announce the long-awaited update to Icon …Read More »
  • New Zealand Flag Design Submissions – July 2015

    July 12, 2015
    With a referendum on whether to change the New Zealand flag, the opportunity to submit a design is an opportunity …Read More »
  • iOS Icon Mask – Corner Curve Study

    September 10, 2014
    When it came to writing the book ‘Icon Design – Designing Elegant Icons’, I needed to create an icon mask …Read More »

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  • Design a Simple Decorative Band

    September 22, 2017
    Decorative Bands Have ever struggled with designing a decorative band that looks balanced and in proportion? To be successful, a …Read More »

Design Secrets Revealed! This book shows you how to design great app icons using the golden section. Specifically, it focuses on icons for the Apple platform, but the principles apply equally well to any artwork that would benefit from a geometric approach.

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What a great book. As an app developer your apps need a point of difference from the thousands of competing applications. With Chris's book and help we were able to give our the app the best opportunity of success.

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