Tiger Pavilion: New collection in the making

I usually create a collection page BEFORE writting a blog post, but for this particular new collection : Tiger pavilion, I have no idea if I will just let it be as is in the picture above or add a few more patterns to turn it into a larger pattern collection. It all started when I noticed more deep green and plum tones making an appearance on the design scene, be it in home decor and fashion. WGSN and Coloro have after all predicted that deep green and lilac would be key colors for the 2027/28 autumn-winter season. Last year when Pantone announced their god awful non-color of the year people were already all thinking the color should have been a green or a deep plum purple and Coloro's 2026 color was a rich vibrant teal green. In general, jewel tones are making a big comeback with Coloro's 2027 color being called "Luminous Blue" and all other colors of 2027 and 2028 being saturated tones as well.

My tiger design once was super popular in its pink and orange avatar which you can still find as part of my tiger safari collection on Spoonflower and in my portfolio.

I made a number of colorways over the years but haven't done any new ones in a while. With green, pink and purple trending right now, I had to give it a go. So I turned my tigers plum and pink, put them on a deep green background. That's when the idea to turn it into a preppy grandmillennial collection. Those big colorful structured geometric patterns you saw everywhere during the Y2K preppy era popped into my mind.

I decided to go with interlocked squares forming a checkered lattice design because of all the bold geometric of that period they are the ones I associate the most with the Chinoiserie inspired vibe of my tiger pattern. I created 4 color variations of it picking the greens, pink and plum from the hero tiger pattern so that one can mix and match. All I needed was a name before I turned it into a collection for Spoonflower.

The grandmillenial meet Chinoiseries aesthetic is how I came up with the name "Tiger Pavilion" for this one. It evokes an exotic getaway with the tigers motif but the color palette and geometric patterns brings up imaged of a refined lodge or garden pavilion. As I said, I am not sure if I will keep adding to it or not, the collection hold well as it is and I don't want to introduce too many filler patterns. Once I made up my mind, I will either add it as a large collection or a mini one on my collection page. For now, I think it deserves a blog post of its own