Harriet Ruscoe Design

New prints coming in January to .print.boutique my online shop for exclusive prints for fashion & home ✨ if you are a brand/client looking for ready-to-purchase prints, you can request password access to the shop via the link in my bio or DM for more info - always happy to talk print! ✨

Merry Christmas! My little studio corner in Christmas mode 🎨🎄
Tools down for the year, looking forward to another year of freelancing next year. Lots of big plans for Harriet Ruscoe Design, kicking off with a new print collection for .print.boutique coming in January ✨
Grateful for all the lovely clients I’ve worked with this year. Excited for next years projects! 🩷

✨ New Blog Post in my Inspiration Everywhere series. Where I look at how the world around us can inspire design and how collecting your own primary research as a designer can be the best starting point for any new project.
This post covers some favourite finds in print & colour from a couple of recent shopping trips ✨
Link in bio to read 🔗

Print collection building ~ with a desk full of ideas and inspiration 🫶🏻

Some little paintings that became prints ~ available soon in my new .print.boutique collection 🙌🏻

Floral inspiration via these floating flower arrangements that I obsessed over whilst in Mauritius. Bowls all around the hotel, refreshed every morning with fresh flowers in new arrangements and patterns 💚

Celebrating 4 years of freelancing!! 🥳

I cannot believe it’s been 4 years since I took the leap and left my in house design job for self employed life - and there’s no turning back now!

Harriet Ruscoe Design, has evolved over the years and I’m excited to continue to grow. The best, (and sometimes equally, the worst) part of freelancing is wearing many many hats at once and I love working on a wide variety of creative briefs. Utilising the broad range of skills I learnt whilst working in house with brands.

In this post is some examples of my favourite pieces of work from the past four years and a quick overview of the creative services I deliver.

As Textile print designer, I work on Bespoke Prints for boutique brands, whether it’s a one off print, a full print collection or creative direction of prints from concept to final designs. I create collections with textile studios to sell all around the world and have my own online shop .print.boutique which sells exclusive textile prints directly through my website. I have been able to use my skills to expand my client base over the years, working with home & fashion suppliers and retailers on Trend Packs and mood boards. Illustration for stationery, home and beauty products. Graphic designs used on clients website & blogs, social media and promotional items. With ideas never ending as a creative, I also have a side hustle brand .e.r.home . Mainly a separate instagram account for now, where my design inspirations are vintage English country homes and chintz interior fabrics. I’ve created prints and textiles under the brand, and have enjoyed selling Christmas wrapping papers for the past couple of years. h.e.r.home is a work is progress but something I’m excited to carefully build in the coming years.

If you’d like to discuss working on a creative project together you can get in touch at [email protected] or take a look at my website for more info: www.harrietruscoedesign.co.uk ✨

Back to it! Ten days off as a freelancer means coming back to writing to do list after to do list - and I love it 🫶🏻

Out of office 🌴🍹
Packed up my work corner for one last very exciting trip for the year. I had planned to launch my new print collection pre-holiday but decided that was absolute madness and will now be launching at the end of October 😄 So excited to have some new work out in the world and for a shop revamp
Now prepare yourselves for holiday the spam 📸 👋🏻

This mornings desk 🎨👌🏻

Sometimes you’ve just got to get it all up on the wall 👀🎨

Todays desk 🎨 New .print.boutique collection coming together ✨

The journey of a pea chair 🫛👇🏻

Just over 2 years ago I spotted this little chair in the charity shop for £30, I saw visions of him living a new life in a brightly coloured velvet, so snapped him up.

I spent a lot of time trawling through velvets, pinks, oranges, blues but finally settled on this vibrant pea green. With some (a lot of) help from my dad and a garage to store our new project, we started work. Making first a calico toile, we had no idea if this is the done thing in upholstery but it felt like a great first step…

Then I got too scared to cut into the beautiful velvet and we didn’t touch the chair for a year and a half, and instead started 3 different projects. Like all good project lovers do.

Finally I made some paper patterns and cut into that velvet. Creating piping, and sewing the front and back pieces together. We sourced new antique castor wheels to add to the front two legs too!

Many months later we finally headed to the garden (🤷🏼‍♀️) to staple all the pieces carefully to the chair, creating strategic pleats and folds to upholster in the neatest way possible.

Et voilà! Our very first, possibly last, upholstery project complete. Adding our ‘Ruscoe’ stamp of approval for good measure. Pea, now very proudly living his new velvet life next to my reference book bookshelf 💚 ~ Sneak peek of the first .e.r.home fabrics inspired by this green at the end 👀

Recently started working on some new ideas for my print shop. Decided to spend some time getting ideas more developed and working into my rough sketches a little more than usual. Here’s a few closeups from this weeks sketchbook roughs 🎨

Golden hour at my painting table 🌞

A painterly ditsy from todays painting table 🌸

Abstract non-prints from this weeks painting. Works in progress for my “Artist Collection” for the .print.boutique launching in September 🎨

Back to it, setting up my little painting studio corner after a week of illness and even got some sunshine for some added motivation this morning (let’s hope it stays around all August…) 🌞

Painterly close up 🎨

Two new blog posts this week!! ✨ I’m really all or nothing with this blog 😅 But love having so much inspiration to share! Design inspiration from Paris posts now up ~ Fashion print trends and some Home interior faves, lots of pattern, texture and colour. Link in bio to have read ✨
If you are a brand interested in commissioning any prints inspired by mood boards shared on my blog or would like to work together on building your own design concept, I would love to hear from you! DM or email in bio 📧

‘Coastal’, my second design inspo mood board from Mykonos is now up on my blog! Can’t wait to design from this one 🌊
If you are a brand interested in commissioning any prints inspired by mood boards shared on my blog or would like to work together on building your own design concept, I would love to hear from you! DM or email in bio 📧

✨New Blog Post✨ 1 of 2 mood boards from Mykonos as part of my ‘Inspiration Everywhere’ blog series. Link in bio to take a look 🌸

Loveliest research & inspo trip to Paris with 🇫🇷 (Excited to make this a semi-annual thing 😄) Returning recharged and full of new ideas 💡Blog post of found inspirations coming soon ✨

Summer Check In ~ Handpainted checks & weaves with .studio 🏁

Pinning this to my desk moodboard as colour palette inspo and to manifest my future holiday home 🌸🎨

Inspiration in Mykonos…
I try not to go on a relaxing holiday and come back with notes for future projects but it’s hard to let the creative brain stop, particularly when you’re self employed and run a business reliant on your creativity and often needing a catalogue of new ideas at the ready (or at least some sparks of ideas ✨)

I have always loved taking photos of anything and everything that my eye is drawn to, it’s that first flicker of creativity and always the best starting point for a project to develop out from. I’ll snap as many photos as possible of whatever it is that’s caught my eye and make a quick note of an idea in my phone then my brain can let go of it and holiday relaxation can continue. Hoping I’m not the only creative who does this?! 😅

Loved the reds and pinks scattered throughout Mykonos’ town, working on developing moodboards with this theme in mind and I’m envisioning a print collection for .print.boutique 👀 (a few more themes in mind too…)

Working on some gouache elements for some kids prints today 🌿

Current inspirations from my desk mood board 💭

Can’t stop, won’t stop squeezing more upclycled furniture into our tiny flat 🤭 A fresh pop of red for my design corner and somewhere to have a little sit at my “standing” table…🫶🏻