I bought this illustration book a few weeks ago called Nobrow 5. It is created by a shop called Nobrow in Shoreditch, East London. They sell children's books, comics, illustration books, story books, along with wrapping paper too. For this project they got together 30 artists to each create repeatable patterns from some of their favourite things. Read more about it here.
I went to New Designers at the Business Design Centre last week and saw some of the work from this year's students of Textile design, Ceramics, Product design and Illustration. The below picture is by Stephanie Ginger, I really like her style of drawing and the colours used. See her website here for more images.