Please give a hearty welcome to Jules of Brandbird guest blogging here on Maquette today. Lucky me! Lucky you!

Hello, I’m Jules from Brand Bird and this is my very first blog post–Woohoo! A great big thank you to Samantha who I met this past May at Surtex after seeing her work on Design*Sponge.

I’m a great lover of fashion illustration and was immediately drawn to her work. I’ve been in the design biz for 20 years (OUCH!), but only recently decided to follow my passion for fashion and all things retail by diving into the deep end of the surface pattern pool. Much to my delight I have found the pattern crowd to be warm, welcoming and very encouraging. A few months and four trade shows later I am thrilled to say that you can find my patterns on bags at very hip Freddy & Ma and lamp shades for Lamp-In-A-Box.

Thanks again to Sam for letting me share my work.