Surface Design
Surface Design Expertise
Surface design projects demonstrate pattern development, color application, and collection thinking.
Seamless repeat patterns developed in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Pattern files organized with clear indexing to support efficient handoff, version control, and production workflows.
Colorways, variations, and alternate palette options developed to support assortment planning and merchandising flexibility.
Concept-driven textile designs created with brand cohesion, continuity, and product direction in mind.
Work informed by trend research and adaptable across branded merchandise, bedding, toss pillows, rugs, and framed art.
Home Soft Goods & Surface Pattern Design
Kira designs seamless repeats, colorways, and production-ready concepts for bedding, pillows, rugs, and other home. (Password-protected pattern library available upon request.)
Coordinated bedding and wall art designs by Kira Olson. Patterns available to view via Kira’s password protected pages. Contact Kira for more information.
Surface Design for Home and Lifestyle
Kira created a twelve-part series of negative space animal silhouettes to explore shape, contrast, and repeatable visual systems. The collection is shown in both vivid color-blocked palettes and pared-back neutral treatments, demonstrating how a single concept can flex across different moods, interiors, and soft goods applications.
Prints available upon request.
Negative-space animal prints in bold colorways, designed as a coordinated set with playful, graphic energy.
Prints available upon request.
The same series translated into a neutral palette, showing how the concept adapts to more minimal home and lifestyle settings.
Surface Design for Ellie Mental Health: Kira’s surface design work includes large-scale murals, branded tees, and merchandise for Ellie Mental Health, as well as self-initiated surface design studies for home goods and soft goods. Using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, she creates professional seamless repeat patterns, colorways, and textile concepts with a production-minded approach.
Ellie Mental Health geometric pattern system applied to privacy-window murals (above) and branded backpack coolers, These designs demonstrate how textile-inspired graphics scale across environments and soft goods.
The surface design samples below are self-initiated projects created to showcase Kira’s pattern development, color exploration, and collection thinking. She designs seamless repeats in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and also organizes pattern files with clear indexing and develops color variations and alternate colorways to support efficient handoff, merchandising flexibility, and production workflows. While the pieces shown here are passion projects, they reflect the same production-aware approach she brings to professional surface design work.
