Pattern & Illustration

Hey there! I'm Minke Babett, a left-handed pattern designer and illustrator. I create original artworks that bring fabrics, products and printed materials to life. Here is a selection of my work. I am open for licensing and collaboration and happy to hear from you!

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Minke Babett is an illustrator based in Berlin, Germany. Minke has a background in communication and editorial design and founded the agency Sodesign, working for brands like Lufthansa, Vivantes Hauptstadtpflege, Volkswagen Financial Services and many more. With her work for carbon manufacturer Coyotex, the agency won both the German Design Award and the German Brand Award in 2019.

Driven by a passion for illustration, Minke redirected her focus during the pandemic, bidding farewell to her agency in 2022. Today, she works as an illustrator specializing in surface pattern design and botanical illustration.

Illustrations

Pattern

The Mug Project (Coming soon)

Engage with me on Instagram for an inside look at my creative journey.

Blue Flowers. Unfortunately, I haven’t been on social media much lately, so I haven’t even posted when I’ve participated in Spoonflower Challenges. Now I’m trying to catch up. Here are the flowers I painted with watercolors f
Autumn is my favourite color ;-) So I’m working on some autumnal motifs for patterns, if my cat Kiwi will let me (swipe to learn how to claim space quite calmly). #autumncolors #autumnpattern #watercolor #handpainted #handpaintedpattern #aut
Had a lot of fun this morning drawing from stamps in @emmacarlisle_ Patreon session. It was so relaxing, I took my time and only did the first layer with watercolors in the given hour (slice 3). Now I had another hour to do the details … Plea
Painted a lot of ceramics with @sophiemcpike Scribble Brigade drawing session and thinking about making a pattern with it. Maybe even for the upcoming Spoonflower Challenge if I add something spooky. What do you think? #sketchbook #watercolor #drawi
🦀🦐❤️ It’s been a while since I last submitted a pattern to a Spoonflower Challenge. That’s partly because I’m hardly drawing on the computer at the moment and need to learn how to lay out my hand drawing so that I can digitize it
Sketchbook practice. 🐟 The under the sea drawing session with Odd Orange (replay). 🐠 I've promised myself this year to draw and experiment for at least half an hour every working day. Since I discovered @oddorange.stationery 's sketching sessions,