Veerle's blog, creativity catalyst and design inspiration

I've featured a few bike storage solutions here before. They are all very different from the one that I'll share today. It doesn't do any space-saving tricks but it does have a certain cuteness that appeals to me.

Creating patterns in previous versions of Illustrator has always given me a bit of headache. Depending on the pattern that I wanted to create, I often chose another route to achieve the result I wanted. A lot of times there was this annoying issue of a tiny pixel gap around the pattern swatch. This alone was already a reason for me not to create a pattern if I didn't have to. However the biggest issue for most people is the complexity involved in the creation of a seamless pattern…