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  • 2023
  • Digital
  • Commissioned
  • Wallpaper

CITIZENM

The art director of CitizenM, affordable luxury hotel chain based in multiple cities, asked me to design and illustrate some wallpaper for their ironing room in Amsterdam. They have a specific room where people can go to iron their clothes, and they wanted to make it a nice illustrated pattern themed around ironing, without it being too obvious or on the nose. I made some assets for this projects, some different ironing bottoms and iron shapes and with those I made a wallpaper pattern. I wanted it to, if you looked at it first, to look like flowers or butterflies, but on a second look suprise people because it is actually made out of  illustrated irons!  It was a really nice experiment to design these and I also got to take a look in their beautiful hotel. It will soon feature this wallpaper!

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Final pick!
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Last five options
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The iron assets
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Some try out patterns that didn't make the cut!
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Ellis Tolsma

Illustrator & animator

info@ellistolsma.nl

+316 40818727

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Grave van Solmsstraat 2

3515EN Utrecht

The Netherlands

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A small cat with a soft, light grey coat and a pink bow gazes upward, resembling the whimsical style of a colorful riso print. Set against a white backdrop, its features pop like an illustration by an Utrecht-based motion designer.
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