Hibiscus Collection Surface Design by Ornella GastaldonHibiscus Collection Surface Design by Ornella Gastaldon

Hibiscus Collection Surface Design

Ornella Gastaldon

Ornella Gastaldon

Surface Design . Hibiscus Collection

A flower I kept coming back to. Hibiscus, drawn by hand with fineliner on paper, three times, three moods. No plan, just the line. What came after, the halftone treatment, the electric palette, the scarves, was discovered in the making.
This is what Vibrátil looks like when it starts from something real.
Manual illustrations are the soul of this project. Fineliner has a specific quality: precise but never rigid. It lets you build petal texture through layered strokes, and when those strokes get digitized and processed, something happens. The botanical becomes graphic. That tension is the whole point.
The palette breaks every botanical expectation. No natural colors here, instead, fuchsia, neon green, black, acid yellow, violet. A hibiscus that doesn't exist in nature but feels completely alive on fabric.
The original destination was Vibrátil's scarves. Four color variants, one pattern, each with its own personality. No photos of the final product exist, so the scarves are documented here from the design files. That's part of the story too.
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Posted May 15, 2026

Created a hibiscus-inspired surface design for Vibrátil's scarves.