Amber Ellis is a Portland-based surface pattern designer and art director with 20+ years in the apparel industry and a lifelong, slightly obsessive love of color, vintage design and the natural world. Her eye for beauty has been sharpened by forest walks, flea markets and art history books — and it shows up in everything she makes.

Studio Vermeil is where that obsession lives now. It's her independent pattern design studio — where decades of print industry experience meets a deeply personal aesthetic that is maximalist, nature-inspired and unapologetically bold. Open for licensing, freelance and collaboration across apparel, interiors and home goods.