Twilight Sound was prompted by early morning rising when her daughter was a newborn. “It was a special, peaceful time, and I have to think the pattern is imbued with that, and that’s why it resonates with designers.” Another primary influence on Bell is color. “It’s the language I feel most fluent in,” she says. She recently released the popular Dreamhouse pattern, one of her 2019 debut designs, in three new colorways: Atlantis, Camo, and Fleur.

Meredith Kephart is the talent behind Los Angeles studio Venable Moore. “We’re an artist-led, craft-based company whose foundation rests on originality, quality, and sustainability,” she says. “My artistic process is the first step in production, so each design begins with a hand-dyed, hand-painted, or hand-drawn original work.”

Her patterns, available as wallpapers and fabrics, reflect her belief that surrounding ourselves with beauty can elevate our spirits. “Like our physical diets, our visual diets impact how we feel. We want to help create comforting spaces.” (A soft landing is something Kephart understands, as she’s temporarily running her studio from Santa Fe, New Mexico, while recovering from the Altadena fire.) Having orders to fill—her online shop also sells tableware and linens, pillow covers, and hand-painted stationery—“has been grounding during such a destabilizing time,” she says.

Venable Moore’s clay-coated wallpapers resonate with the broad spectrum of designers who’ve made patterns like Frizzante, “which has the bubbly energy of a sparkling beverage,” and Chintz Moderne, a painterly abstract floral, two bestsellers. “They’re happy and full of movement,” Kephart says. She thrives on exploring different methods, including the Japanese textile-dyeing technique arashi shibori, which sparked her linen Shibori collection. The line recently grew to include Staccato Nero, a confetti-like pattern developed with opaque paint rather than dye. No matter the pattern or material, Venable Moore’s designs offer palpable joy.