Taye Nicole is an illustrator and surface designer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, working across surface design, illustration, and product design. A 2025 SCAD graduate with a BFA in Illustration for Surface Design, she creates cozy, colorful, and playful work using both traditional and digital media.

Style and Aesthetic Playful, character-driven, and joy-forward. Selected Instagram pattern images suggest bold color palettes, whimsical motifs, and an illustrative sensibility that crosses comfortably between surface design, stationery, and product concept work. "

Pattern Focus Colorful, character-led surface patterns with illustrative motifs - animals, figures, seasonal scenes, and whimsical objects. The portfolio features all-over repeat work with accessible, bold palettes suited to fabric, stationery, and everyday product design.

Markets and Clients Fabric design, stationery, party goods, and licensed product concepts. Portfolio collections include Out and About Savannah Collection, Coastal Paradise (fabric), Hauntingly Beautiful Notebooks, and holiday/party goods concepts. The portfolio features retail-ready product mockup contexts.

Techniques and Tools Versatile across traditional and digital media. SCAD BFA in Illustration for Surface Design with a minor in Drawing. Work spans seamless repeat patterns, editorial illustration, and applied product design - notebooks, party goods, fabric collections, and holiday concepts.

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Career Path Grew up in Littleton, Colorado; now based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. SCAD Class of 2025 (BFA Illustration for Surface Design, minor in Drawing). Pursuing freelance illustration and licensing work following graduation.

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