What does Maria Galybina do?

Maria Galybina is a surface pattern designer based in Lisbon with 17 years of experience. She licenses botanical pattern collections and designs custom pattern collections for textile, fashion, home decor and wallpaper brands worldwide.

What kind of brands does Maria work with?

Maria works with textile and fashion brands, home decor companies, wallpaper houses, stationery brands and lifestyle labels — from independent studios to established names. Past clients include RSVLTS, Cloud9 Fabrics, Bespoke Letterpress, Klorane, Magma, Boon Supply and Ollie Jay.

How does pattern licensing work?

Brands choose a ready-made pattern from Maria's licensing library. They receive vector files, full repeat tiles, supporting motifs and multiple colorways — delivered ready for production. Licensing terms are agreed per project (exclusive or non-exclusive, by product category, region and duration).

Do you design custom pattern collections?

Yes. Maria designs custom pattern collections on commission — a coordinated set of repeat patterns, supporting motifs and lettering built around a brand's brief. Each collection forms a cohesive visual world for an entire season or product line.

What style is Maria's work?

Botanical, nature-inspired and detail-rich. Plants, animals, tropical and exotic species, and abstract motifs found in nature — built around a recognisable use of colour and composition shaped over 17 years of practice.

Where is Maria based and does she work internationally?

Maria is based in Lisbon, Portugal and works with brands worldwide. Most collaborations happen remotely — files and proofs are exchanged digitally.

How do I start a project with Maria?

Write to Maria via the contact form at mariadom.com/contact. For licensing enquiries include the collection or pattern names you're interested in. Replies come within two business days.

Selected work

A selection of brands and projects I've worked with - across textile, fashion, wallpaper, home decor, stationery, beauty and kidswear.
Most patterns shown are also available for licensing.

Enquire about licensing

What clients say

"Maria has proven herself to be responsible, dedicated, and personable."

"It is with great pleasure that I write to you of my experience with Maria Galybina. Maria is a fantastic colleague, over the past 2 years has designed some of our best patterns in recent history, during that time I have come to consider her an invaluable asset.
She is a diligent, hard worker that is beyond easy to communicate with. I am beyond thrilled to have had the opportunity to work with her and look forward to continuing our professional relationship in the future.
Maria has proven herself to be responsible, dedicated, and personable. She is more than capable of assimilating and performing new projects, and so it is with great enthusiasm that I can personally vouch for her."
John Tramutolo, RSVLTS
"We approached Maria to collaborate on a custom range of designs specific to our brand vision and she consistently delivered fantastic designs and was a pleasure to work with throughout."

"My wife and I stumbled upon some of Maria's work nearly two years ago and loved her style of illustrations. At the time we were in the midst of planning a new natural skincare business and we felt one of the designs really captured the energy and tone of the brand.
We approached Maria to collaborate on a custom range of designs specific to our brand vision and she consistently delivered fantastic designs and was a pleasure to work with throughout.
We would highly recommend Maria as an illustrator and found her a joy to work with while developing our packaging strategy for our new business.”
Drew Scrymgeour, Wildflower Skincare Lab
"I have had the pleasure of working with Maria Galybina for my golf apparel business, Long Gimmies."

"I have had the pleasure of working with Maria Galybina for my golf apparel business, Long Gimmies. She is incredibly talented, artistic, and thoughtful throughout all areas of her work, business, and creative process.I've worked with a number of designers in my line of work, but Maria stands out. Her positive attitude and creativity consistently makes projects and ideas better. She has impacted our business and product offerings to audiences because she fills a creative void that we desperately need. We bring her very basic ideas and she works with us to produce exactly what we need with professionalism at every stage.With our company being located in the USA, we had to work with Maria through digital means. Maria makes this an easy process and has made it feel like we're close neighbors working together. Her swift and responsive communication helps eliminate the challenges that time zones and long distances can bring.”
Jon Snyder, Long Gimmies
"Maria's design and illustration skills not only met, but exceeded our expectations"

"I hired Maria Galybina to complete some custom design work for me in 2021. At the time, I required a design to print on fabric for a specific customer group.
Maria was professional in her communication, exemplary design skills and she met all project milestones. Maria's design and illustration skills not only met, but exceeded our expectations. We were very happy with her incredible design skills and look forward to working with Maria again in the future."
Trish Morgan
"Maria has always been very prompt, friendly and professional."

"I have worked with Maria on several occasions as a pattern designer. I design children's clothing and I purchased digital artwork from Maria for our clothing brand, and we have worked with her for recoloring projects as well. Maria has always been very prompt, friendly and professional. I enjoy working with her and look forward to more opportunities to collaborate with Maria on our future design projects!”
Michelle Orrantia, Ollie Jay

Selected work

A selection of brands and projects I've worked with - across textile, fashion, wallpaper, home decor, stationery, beauty and kidswear. Most patterns shown are also available for licensing.

"Maria has proven herself to be responsible, dedicated, and personable."

"We approached Maria to collaborate on a custom range of designs specific to our brand vision and she consistently delivered fantastic designs and was a pleasure to work with throughout."

"I have had the pleasure of working with Maria Galybina for my golf apparel business, Long Gimmies."

"Maria's design and illustration skills not only met, but exceeded our expectations"

"Maria has always been very prompt, friendly and professional."

A selection of brands and projects I've worked with - across textile, fashion, wallpaper, home decor, stationery, beauty and kidswear.
Most patterns shown are also available for licensing.