Lulu Ross created a pattern for a computer design class inspired by the evil eye symbol from her culture. She used muted colors instead of bright contrasting ones to see if it still conveyed strong energy. For another pattern, Lulu was inspired by a breathtaking building she saw in Balboa Park with perfectly constructed details. She incorporated structural hexagon shapes and creative column-inspired symbols with lines to represent the building's layers and capture its joyful and expressive qualities in the pattern. Lulu wanted her patterns to have an open perspective where the elements made sense together even if they did not directly correlate.

1. Open Perspective
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2. Divider
Inspiration
The project I used for this page is a pattern
made from my computer design class. When I
created this pattern I was going for a variation of
the evil eye look. My culture heavily uses the evil
eye symbol in their homes and my mom always
taught me how it protects us. I used that theory
to create a story with the muted colors. Because
the original evil eye contains bright contrasting
colors, I thought of turning the perspective of
colors to see if it gives off the same strong
energy.

3. Inspiration
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I created this pattern to reflect on my perspective
of this moment being in Balboa Park. The building
on the left was breathtaking and all the details were
perfectly constructed. When I was building this pattern
I wanted to capture how the building had structural
and creative elements that worked really well together.
I took the creativity aspects and used them to create
my column inspired symbol with little lines to represent
layers that the building has. Then I incorporated
structure within the hexagon shapes as a background
layer. I wanted this pattern to be joyful and expressive
just like the picture I took. In many ways these don’t
correlate but, in an open perspective they make all the
sense.