A Surface Pattern Designer from the beautiful Central Coast near Sydney, Australia. I love sketching flowers, rainbows, birds, and animals and turning them into bright, bold and fun surface designs that enliven your day. My work can be found on fabric, wallpaper, kids wear, baby wraps, bedding, home decor, bags, swimwear, pet bandanas, women’s fashion, baby products and accessories,

I’m totally obsessed with vintage designs, wallpaper, textiles and all things floral. Most days you’ll find me in my home studio, cup of tea in hand, designing and illustrating.

Hello, I’m Jacqui ...

Creative Life

My work has been described as bright, bold and sophisticated with a modern vintage vibe. I love vintage florals, designs from the arts and crafts era, Indian florals, Japanese kimonos and Russian textiles.

I’ve always been involved with art and can’t remember ever not drawing or obsessing over colour, books or beautiful stationery. I trained as a Graphic Designer with a Bachelor or Arts degree majoring in Graphic Design and proceeded to then work as a Graphic Designer, Art Director and freelance designer in the marketing sectors. After 17 years and a variety of design roles I found Surface Design and it was my ‘light bulb’ moment. I very quickly fell in love with the world of patterns and textiles and knew instantly this was where I wanted my career to go.

Coming from a graphic design background is such an asset when working with patterns. I can use my technical skills to apply to creating seamless repeating tiles, understanding colour, printing and prepress processes.

As a designer and artist I’m always hungry to keep learning and exploring. I love to travel and experience new places and cultures to fuel inspiration. I also love following the fashion catwalks for the latest trends and colours.

Lets Collaborate

All my designs begin with hand or digitally drawn or painted elements, to create unique vintage inspired prints with a retro bohemian vibe.

My surface pattern designs are available for art licensing for your products or commission a new piece. I have an extensive print catalogue filled with print ready designs to choose from or customise with your own brand colours. To collaborate and work together email me at: jacqui@jacslade.com
I love seeing my designs out in the world so lets collaborate!

Boho Beach fabric collection with fish, waves, shells and coral with blue and coral orange by Jac Slade
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I was so happy to see my Safari zoo animals wallpaper design come in 55th in the Timeless Nursery wallpaper challenge @spoonflower 🦓🦒🌴🙏 Thank you to all that voted for me it’s a real treat to make in the top 100 !! I’ve created 7 col
Mystic Cowgirl - my entry for the Western Americana design challenge @spoonflower I ended up going with the rich earthy brown for the contest and created some soft and pretty boho pinks and mint greens to add to the full collection in my Spoonflower
It's a good day when you get to play with all these pretty new colours! I think a I found a new favourite today for my Western Wild Flowers with the green and pink version. 🌸💚🌸🧡 I'm working on a fresh set of colours for my Mystic Plains Western c
Love Candyfloss Valentines - my signature retro Candyfloss florals just got a pretty in pink makeover for Valentines Day @carriagehouseprinteryfabric Check out the new collection, I've created all new painterly plaids, hugs xoxo, checks and hearts o
Here's my Safari Zoo design as my entry for the Timeless Nursery Wallpaper design challenge @spoonflower I went with this pretty gender neutral palette of soft sage green and indigo blue. 🦏🌴🦒🌴🦓🌴 My safari animals were inspired from a holiday