Project Outline:

You will select a quote from a film, show, book, or game and reinterpret it into a wallpaper pattern. The goal is to tell a personal visual story using narrative devices like metaphor, parody, exaggeration, or anthropomorphism. You must apply the design onto a product mock-up and explore all six colour harmony schemes: Monochromatic, Complementary, Split-Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, and Tetradic. The focus is on creative reinterpretation and using colour and pattern to communicate meaning in a playful and engaging way.

In this pattern design project, I interpreted the phrase “Running Out of Time” as a visual narrative using wallpaper tiles to explore urgency, repetition, and the fleeting nature of opportunity. By breaking down the concepts of ‘running’ and ‘time,’ I used exaggeration, symbolic repetition, and fragmented motion to express the feeling of something slipping away.

The design was applied onto a pill bottle mock-up—an intentional choice to parallel ideas of dosage, countdown, and the pressure of limited time. Just as medication is consumed in controlled intervals, the looping pattern around the bottle suggests routine and anxiety, turning a functional object into a metaphor for urgency. Throughout the process, I experimented with all six colour harmony systems to examine how mood, tension, and emotional intensity shift through colour.