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Bring clarity and focus to your collection development process. Take the guesswork out of what to design each season by picking appropriate trends for your target market while staying true to your own artistic style. Our most popular course!

Interested in selling your collections at seasonal print shows? In this course we share six lessons on preparing for your first show. Learn how to properly display your work, gauge your readiness, and consider your print show options.

In the Ultimate Guide to Repeats you’ll have access to a toolbox of techniques and guideline to follow for creating professional repeats that agents, studios, and clients are looking for in today’s market.

Are you passionate about earning a living doing what you love? You’re in the right place. We’ll explore the three most popular ways of selling your work in the design marketplace, how to select a direction for your work and how to start building your own textile design business.

Welcome to Illustrator: A Fresh Look! We’re so glad you’ll be joining us for this 6 week journey through Adobe Illustrator! This course is for new or occasional Illustrator users, Photoshop users, and anyone who wants a refreshed perspective on how to better understand how Illustrator works from the ground up. This course is scheduled to remain posted until October 5, 2021.

In this two-week Textile Design Lab course, we’ll come together as a community and look forward at the rest of this memorable year of 2020. We’ll lean on each other for ideas, motivation, and support, while also empowering our actions through education and research. We’ll hear industry insight and history from Art Licensing Agent Melissa Schulz and gain more information from the reports and market insight available to us through WGSN Insight.

In this workshop we’ll take a deep dive into the wellness industry and explore what it means to your business …

In this course you’ll explore your brand identity and create pattern collections that tell your unique story. This is done through a thoughtful, pro-growth itinerary and series of high-value tutorials.

In this course you’ll learn Sherry London’s No-Fail method to develop a seamless repeat pattern and prepare it for printing at Spoonflower.

Take your textile design work to a new level of mastery with this high value, hands-on course. You’ll learn how to create patterns that are empowering, inspiring and feminine while also flattering lots of different body shapes.

Is your portfolio finalized and are you ready to apply to print studios? We’re here to help!

Are you ready to add repeats to your list of services in your design business?

Ready to Create Eye-Catching Surface Pattern Designs? Learn how to turn your sketches, paintings and illustrations into surface pattern design layouts in both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in this new Textile Design Lab course!

Is your portfolio a constant source of worry? Are you worried you are showing too much work? Not enough work? Or the wrong work all together? It doesn’t have to be this way.

Change the way you think about social media in this 6-week course

In this course we’ll be clarifying what you hope to achieve in the next year and create an action plan that is broken down into quarterly tasks to get you there. At the end of this course, you will feel focused and in control—ready for this upcoming year! You’ll know exactly what steps to take and how you can use The Textile Design Lab to achieve the goals you’ve laid out before you.

Learn how to apply your graphic design skills to the textile design industry!

In this course you will learn the importance of working alongside other designers whether they be peers or clients, how to handle conflicts when they arise and how collaboration will enrich your design process. You will identify your strengths and what challenges you when working with others, and practice your new-found skills giving you the confidence to put them into action.

In this five day mini-course we are going to cover ways to improve the organization of your business and enhance your productivity.

Have you ever wondered why some prints have that professional look and feel and why others do not? In this three part course I share how to improve your existing prints using the seven elements of design.

Interested in launching a blog or injecting excitement into an existing one? I’ll share the lessons I’ve learned over the last few years – both good and bad – and help you create a blog to begin marketing your work to the world!