Timorous Beasties

For my current project at university I've been looking into insect and in particular bee's. On a recent visit to Liberty of London I came across a cushion with a bee on: 

After seeing these I realised it was a Timorous Beasties piece so I thought I would look more into the work of Timorous Beasties. 

Timorous Beasties was established in Glasgow in 1990 by Alister McCauley and Paul Simmons, who met studying Textiles Design at Glasgow school of art . Today the studio is a diverse operation and has emerged as a multi award winning, internationally acclaimed icon. 

Timorous Beasties’ work embodies a unique diversity of pattern, ranging from design that echoes a golden age of copperplate engraving (a time-honoured classic is the Thistle range; or Merian Palm superwide wallpaper) to example of a distinctly edgy nature, an elegant transgression, a display of chic irreverence. Yet, the studio fully engages a design discourse with textiles history by lending an aesthetic evolution to time-honoured motifs. 

I really like their work as its so different and unique to them. I like their use of pattern as a background then an image on top of that.                                     

I also like that most of their work involves a lot of bright colours and busy patterns as this makes them really different as almost with their work if it clashes it goes.

                                          

http://www.timorousbeasties.com/about