Doodling led to design

David Trubridge’s launches the first of a new range of designs for Hemptech called Traces. These were derived from Davids pencil ‘doodles’ which, right from the start, seemed to have a graphic quality that wanted to be used in some way. Rings Shear and Rings Upholstery are the first collections to be released and are based on drawings done in his sketch book whilst traveling by foot through wild places. David says of this new series: “Rings, colours and patterns are inspired by landscapes photographed my adventures around the world. The photos are the only trace I have of my time in these places. On the aeroplane coming home, I’d often draw expressive ‘doodles’ as an attempt to create, in a sort of meditative process, something of my feeling for the rhythms and patterns of nature. The land will give you colour combinations that may be unlikely but that always seem to work so well together. The crackled surface of melt pools on an Antarctic glacier; intricate, abstract layers of siltstone along a rocky Otago coastline; shoot-green bursts of life after a winter deluge in the Outback these are the evocative images that inspired Rings.”