The Pattern Post

The Pattern Post is my free weekly email on everything happening in surface pattern design, art licensing, and illustration, and what I’d do about it. I’m Bonnie Christine. I write every issue myself, in first person, and I sign it. It’s read by 300,000+ people every Tuesday.

Every Tuesday at 11 AM Eastern. Every issue also lives on the blog at bonniechristine.com/blog, so you can read it online or send it to a friend.

Yes. The Pattern Post is free, with no paid tier and no catch. If it isn’t your cup of tea, you can snooze it anytime and stay on the list for everything else.

Surface pattern designers first, and the illustrators, makers, and art licensors who share this industry with us. If you want to know what’s happening in your industry without spending your whole afternoon finding out, it’s for you.

Every issue follows the same shape, so you always know where to find things: From Bonnie’s Desk, Making Headlines, Pattern POV, More News in Brief, Open Doors (every opportunity open right now, closest deadline first), Pattern Forecast, Worth Your Time, Open Tabs, Repeat After Me, and a note until next Tuesday.

I do. I’ve been licensing my prints and patterns since 2012, I’m the author of Pattern Magazine, I host The Professional Creative podcast, and I’ve taught more than 200,000 students the art of surface pattern design. I write The Pattern Post, I approve every word, and I sign it.