Upcoming Event: Exploring Photoshop with Sherry London
We will Explore Photoshop on December 19th at 11am EST. Sherry will go over “making complex block repeats.” For our November topic Sherry spoke about Print On Demand Companies (Zazzle, Art Of Where, Contrado, and Red Bubble) and the best ways to prep images for these sites. You can watch her talk right here. If you have questions you can ask them in the tech talk forum and tag @prancingpixel Have a topic that you would like discussed in an upcoming presentation? Please tag @prancingpixel on the Tech Talk forum to let her know.
Upcoming Event: Illustrator Live with Laura Coyle
Laura’s next Illustrator Live presentation will be on December 20th at 11am EST mark your calendars! Join us to learn some new tips on using textures and brushes. On November 29th Laura taught us about making calendars and planners to help plan for the new year. You can catch up with the presentation right here. If you have suggestions/questions for future sessions, please add them to this thread. You can ask her questions by tagging @laurac
Opportunity: Pattern Observer Social Media Feature
Share your favorite design or artwork you made this year with us and we will feature you on the Pattern Observer social media sites. This is a great way to get your work out there to our large audience and you never know what can come from that! Send your image or images to [email protected] If possible consider sizing them for the web, 72 dpi is great.
New Chelsea’s Challenge: Interiors Colors
We’re excited to share our final Chelsea’s Challenge of 2022, in which we’ll be looking ahead to trends forecasted by WGSN for A/W 24/25 interiors. While we typically focus more on print and pattern trends for Chelsea’s Challenge, this month we thought it would be fun to change things up and make color be our primary focus. Check out the full post HERE to learn more!
Recording Posted: Guest Expert Presentation with Shawn Fink
Let’s end the year with an uplifting talk from Entrepreneurial business coach Shawn Fink. In this recording Shawn will walk you through some exercises that will help you define and clarify your goals to expand your business and find even more success for the coming year. It will be helpful to have a pencil and paper nearby. You can watch the talk here and you can download her pdf presentation here.
Recording Posted: Guest Expert Presentation with Misha Zadeh
Misha Zadeh presented October 12th as our Guest Expert on selling art freelance for products independently of agents or studios. Misha has wonderful experience selling her own products through her website and licensing art through companies, especially in the stationary, paper, and home decor markets. Her talk covers her personal path through the design world and how she has pivoted several times to meet the changing needs, as well as tips for designers that want to begin selling and licensing art right now. Here is the recording.
Here are some of the events happening this month. All times are Eastern and all live events will be recorded.
12/19/22- Exploring Photoshop with Sherry London
12/20/22- Illustrator Live with Laura Coyle
12/22/22- Art Critique with Melissa Schulz
12/28/22- New Speedy Design Challenge Released
12/29/22- Art Critique with Mary Jane Mitchell
Weekly Art Critiques. Please join the TDL community on THURSDAY at 1 PM Eastern for a live art critique. Our art critiques are fun events where Lab members come together to review artwork and ask questions about pattern design, marketing, and sales. A registration link will be emailed the morning of the critique and will also be posted in our Weekly Art Critique forum. Textile Design Lab members can watch past critiques here.
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