See Creatures is a design studio based in Brighton, UK, founded in 2014 by artist and print designer Dan Walters, whose 20+ years in surface pattern design underpin the studio's international client base. Sarah Kelly joined as studio manager in 2016, followed a year later by a small in-house design team, and the studio produces curated collections for kidswear, menswear, womenswear, active, product, and swim.








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See Creatures is a design studio based in Brighton, UK, founded in 2014 by artist and print designer Dan Walters, whose 20+ years in surface pattern design underpin the studio's international client base. Sarah Kelly joined as studio manager in 2016, followed a year later by a small in-house design team, and the studio produces curated collections for kidswear, menswear, womenswear, active, product, and swim. Based at Workflow Studio at Rodhus in Brighton, the studio also takes on murals, interiors, art direction, and brand identity work alongside its core pattern output.
Conversational prints (animal and tropical motifs), tropical/botanical florals, and flat-color geometrics, applied primarily to kidswear, active, and swimwear.
Selected pattern images span bold conversational prints (toucans, sharks), loose sketch-style tropical botanicals, and flat-color geometric repeats in a 90s-influenced palette, all rendered in saturated, high-contrast colorways. This matches the studio's own description of "fun conversationals, florals and geometrics" - florals lean graphic and illustrative rather than painterly, and conversational motifs are drawn with a confident linework style.
Artwork ranges from hand-illustrated linework, visible in a sketch-style tropical print, to flat-color conversational and geometric repeats built for fast-moving fashion and swim cycles. The studio also extends into large-scale murals, interiors, art direction, and brand identity work alongside surface pattern design (unverified whether these use the same repeat-pattern process).
See Creatures works across fashion, swim, active/outdoor, and product categories, with a client list including The North Face, Chubbies Shorts, Target, Gap Inc., Boden, Amazon, John Lewis, M&S, Paperchase, Tommy Hilfiger, REI, J.Crew, Carter's, and Mothercare, among others. Selected pattern imagery confirms output for a licensed entertainment property (Jurassic Park) alongside core fashion and outdoor accounts, indicating a studio comfortable working both direct-to-brand and through licensing.
Founded 2014 by Dan Walters. Sarah Kelly joined as studio manager in 2016, with a small in-house design team added the following year. The studio operates from Workflow Studio at Rodhus, Brighton.













See Creatures is a design studio based in Brighton, UK, founded in 2014 by artist and print designer Dan Walters, whose 20+ years in surface pattern design underpin the studio's international client base.
Studio Style and Aesthetic Selected pattern images span bold conversational prints (toucans, sharks), loose sketch-style tropical botanicals, and flat-color geometric repeats in a 90s-influenced palette, all rendered in saturated, high-contrast colorways.
Pattern Focus Conversational prints (animal and tropical motifs), tropical/botanical florals, and flat-color geometrics, applied primarily to kidswear, active, and swimwear.
Markets and Specialties kidswear menswear womenswear active swim product design
Techniques and Artwork Process Artwork ranges from hand-illustrated linework, visible in a sketch-style tropical print, to flat-color conversational and geometric repeats built for fast-moving fashion and swim cycles.
Crew, Carter's, and Mothercare, among others. Selected pattern imagery confirms output for a licensed entertainment property (Jurassic Park) alongside core fashion and outdoor accounts, indicating a studio comfortable working both direct-to-brand and through licensing.
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Studio Background Founded 2014 by Dan Walters. Sarah Kelly joined as studio manager in 2016, with a small in-house design team added the following year. The studio operates from Workflow Studio at Rodhus, Brighton.