Surface Design for Remarkable Products

Finding art you love is just the beginning. Going from beautiful art to a product your clients obsess over requires careful attention to materials, manufacturing, production timelines, and retail context. That translation from artwork to product is where strong design experience becomes essential.

WanderingModa: Art + Product Design + Marketing

Before becoming a full time surface designer, I spent 10 years running a handmade studio jewelry business and fifteen years working in international marketing.

Working across product development, luxury goods sales, and international marketing for premium products now helps me perfect how my artwork will perform on the intended surface, and for the intended audience.

Artistic Depth

Years of studio experience in jewelry design, metalworking, ceramics, classical painting, and woodworking bring layers of material knowledge, detail, and handmade textures into my artwork. Purely digital art can’t match that depth.

Production Awareness

Patterns are developed with manufacturing realities in mind. With experience designing across many different substrates, all elements of the design are planned to translate smoothly into production.

Creative and Commercial Fluency

Balancing visual storytelling with practical product considerations allows conversations to move efficiently between design vision and commercial goals: I work as part of your creative team, not as a separate artistic ego whose feelings need to be managed.

Two Paths Forward

Every project has different timelines, product goals, and development cycles. To support that flexibility, I offer two main collaboration paths:

1. Licensing From the Catalog

My catalog contains a wide range of surface patterns and illustrations, developed with product application in mind.

These designs are available for licensing and can often move quickly into production. Many clients use catalog licensing for:

• subscription box products
 • fabric collections
 • stationery and tabletop games
 • lifestyle accessories

Catalog licensing is often the quickest way to bring a distinctive design into a product line; if you would like to see which artwork is currently available, please email me here: miriam@wanderingmoda.com

2. Custom Artwork and Collections

Many partners come to me with a vision of what they want for their project: after an initial discovery call, I work collaboratively with you to develop custom designs aligned with your creative direction, product category, and retail audience.

Custom work is often used for:

• new product launches
 • seasonal retail collections 
• exclusive product lines
 • brand specific visual storytelling

If you have a project in mind, I’d be happy to explore it with you. You can me directly miriam@wanderingmoda.com or Book a free exploratory call

What to Expect

Licensing collaborations work best when the creative process is clear and reliable. My goal is to provide artwork that strengthens your product line while keeping the experience straightforward for your team.

Here’s how a project usually flows:

1. Alignment

We begin with an initial conversation about your project goals, product category, audience, and production considerations. If you already have manufacturing partners and visuals in mind, this can usually be done on a quick call or email before moving forward. 

If you’re not quite there yet, I can collect color palettes, moodboards, and other practical visuals that make sure we’re on the right track, and give you a list of relevant production questions for your manufacturer.

2. Licensing and Pricing

Contract and licensing terms are discussed individually depending on the scope of the project, the exclusivity required, and the intended product applications. While many clients come to me with their own contracts for artwork, I also have my own project contracts that I can provide for a project, when needed.

Most artwork is contracted for a defined product category and market, allowing brands to maintain a distinctive visual identity within their space, while keeping the project within budget.

3. My Art + Your Product

Depending on the project, we either review catalog designs that align with your product and brand direction, or begin developing custom artwork based on the brief we established earlier. In both cases, the goal is the same: finding a design that strengthens the product while remaining true to your production requirements.

4. Refinement

Using our project brief and potential art, I’ll draft new designs or adapt catalog designs to fit your project exactly. You’ll receive these drafts, then we’ll revise them together: I focus on presenting thoughtful options and practical solutions rather than excessive iterations, and artistic ego never gets in the way of the project outcomes and my client’s preferences.

5. Production Ready Files

Final artwork is prepared according to your product specifications and delivered ready for use: typically as layered vector files, high resolution raster artwork, or repeat-ready pattern files prepared for seamless scaling.

I am very comfortable liaising with the manufacturers or your internal graphic design team to refine any file delivery requirements, to ensure everything prints correctly, from the very first test run.

Typical applications include:

Home decor and lifestyle products
Exclusive gifts for subscription boxes
Tabletop games & puzzles
fabric and textiles
wallpaper

If technical questions arise during manufacturing, I remain available to support adjustments that help the design translate successfully into the final product.

For many clients, this reliability becomes one of the most valuable parts of the collaboration.

Let’s Begin Something New

If you are developing a new product line, planning a seasonal collection, or looking for distinctive patterns for licensing, I would love to explore how we can work together.

Licensing Inquiries

To request portfolio catalog access or discuss a project, please reach out directly:

Email Me: miriam@wanderingmoda.com

Book a free exploratory call