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FeedDesigning Woman
Photograph by Diablo Imaging
Give Julia Minasian any blank surface—a cup, a plate, bedding, china, you name it—and she’ll create a colorful pattern for it. The Walnut Creek artist paints patterns by hand, then scans her work onto a computer. She then sends it to manufacturers who apply the designs to coffee mugs, kitchen linens, and myriad kitchenware items for mega chains Target, Mervyn’s, and Wal-Mart, as well as hundreds of independent boutiques around the country.
Minasian, who was born in Iraq and grew up in England, is never at a loss for ideas. “My work is very addictive,” she says. “I’ll start by designing a snowman for a holiday mug, and I’ll get really creative with his hat … and then I’ll say, ‘Now, I want to make a pattern of hats!’ It’s a very contagious energy, but eventually I have to remember to turn off the computer and have a life.”
