TDL News 9-3-18 - Textile Design Lab

Upcoming Event: Loose Ends Workgroup

Do you have countless pattern concepts that you created during the Summer of Creativity or on your own? Let’s come together as a community to get these rough concepts polished, into your portfolio and in front of clients and buyers. On Monday, September 10th we’re starting the Loose Ends Workgroup in the Textile Design Lab. Here’s how it works:

Step One: September 10th-You’ll receive a video tutorial from the Textile Design Lab team walking you through a series of exercises. Through these exercises you’ll get clear on what needs to be done to achieve your short term goals and turn that stack of pattern concepts into presentation ready work.

Step Two: September 12th- We’ll come together during a live chat session to discuss our goals, share our plans and seek advice from the community. The live chat will be recorded for those who are unable to attend. You are also invited to post questions and your plan to our private forums for feedback and discussion.

Step Three: September 12th- With your new plan in place it’s time to choose your adventure and get to work! A list of recommended Textile Design Lab tutorials and courses (including two new additions to our library!) will be sent out to those who need help getting started.

This event is free for Textile Design Lab members and will be sent out to the entire community. You do not need to register for this event.

September Design Challenge: Aloha!

We hope you aren’t too burnt out on the travel themes from the Summer of Creativity, but we just loved this Hawaiian theme for S/S 2020!

We put together two beautiful boards and described two ways of taking this trend:

1) Bright and Bold. You might play with very clean, vector florals in bold colorways, or more detailed, traditional Hibiscus tropicals–but re-imagined in bold colorways with lots of contrast.

2) Vintage. This vintage take on the trend features maps, souvenir graphics and washed-out color palettes.

Members can read the full design challenge here.

New TDL Team Member: Melissa Schulz

We are thrilled to announce that art licensing rock star Melissa Schulz has joined our Pattern Observer and Textile Design Lab team!

You’ll see Melissa in the forum every Tuesday and Friday and we plan to do some live events in the future.

Melissa will also be representing the work of our Pattern Observer Studio designers and those Textile Design Lab members who choose to participate in our studio briefs.

You can read more about this exciting addition here.

Welcome Melissa!!!!

Upcoming Event: Guest expert Shannon McNab

Mark your calendars! We are delighted to welcome designer Shannon McNab into the Lab on September 25th at 1pm EDT.

We had the privilege of meeting Shannon at Surtex in May and can’t wait to hear her thoughts on “Trade Show Success: Strategies for after the show”.

This event is free for members and more information will be sent out the day before the event.

Weekly Art Critique Please join Michelle for this week’s live art critique held THURSDAY at 1 PM EDT. This is a fun event where Lab members come together to review artwork and ask questions about pattern design, marketing and sales. A registration link will be emailed out early on Thursday morning and will also be posted in our Weekly Art Critique forum. Textile Design Lab members can watch past critiques here.

September 3, 2018

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