Chelsea’s Challenge: Endless Summer
After taking a break during the Summer of Creativity, Chelsea’s Challenge is back with a new theme for the month of September: Endless Summer! These three gender-neutral trends are subsets of WGSN’s Protect & Connect trend story for S/S 24. WGSN writes of this overarching theme, “Protect & Connect is driven by the importance of community and a sense of security. This inspires a stronger focus on emotive textures, expressive colours and nods to nostalgia. Protect & Connect champions nature, community and culture, with a focus on wellness themes, gardening graphics and handmade craft influences.”
Check out the full post here which includes three inspiring trend boards and links to TDL tutorials that will help get the creative juices flowing.
Upcoming Event: Ultimate Guide to Repeats Group-Study
Looking for a more creative way to learn repeats? This is the course for you. After understanding why repeats are so crucial to our industry in Lessons One, Two, and Three, you will begin to explore various repeat techniques through Lessons Four through Eight.
Starting in Lesson Four, you’ll receive a trend-driven design brief focused on a particular pattern style. You are then encouraged to create a pattern concept and put it into repeat using the technique covered in that week’s lesson. This course structure will provide real-world experience, using different repeat techniques while creating new artwork for your professional portfolio.
This group-study includes access to WGSN for the first 290 participants. Register here.
Upcoming Event: Guest Expert Paula Pappenheim
Wednesday September 13th at 11am EST Spanish artist Paula Pappenheim of Pappenpop will be our Guest Expert on freelance designing and business development. Paula runs her own design studio without any assistants or agents out of Madrid, Spain. She creates art for fashion, rugs, wallpaper, installations, home goods, packaging, and even a Harley Davidson motorcycle! Paula also works with many mediums, like paint, digital, and collage. Be sure to join us to hear about how she manages all this on her own. Here is her website.
Recording Posted: Chelsea’s LIVE One Hour Challenge
Chelsea’s Live One Hour Challenge was August 31st. You can still participate here for supplies you need acrylic paint, paper, (preferably thicker stock like watercolor paper) paintbrushes, water, rubbing alcohol, and something flat to drag paint around like a small piece of cardboard or plastic, string, and a paperclip! If you want to watch her previous challenge from July you can participate with this link. You will need a drawing medium of your choice and your phone to take photos of your artwork. Here is the link to the previous Live One Hour Challenge from June. You will need to bring paper and your favorite drawing tools in at least five different colors.
Changes to the Weekly Coloring Hour
We began the Coloring Hour in 2020 during the Pandemic when everyone was locked inside and using zoom for communication and connection. It was a wonderful way to gather as a community and discuss the changing world, our families, art, design, and other current events or creative struggles. However we have realized that life has returned to a more normal fast paced flow with less time at home to meet for zoom chats and therefore we are going to scale back the coloring hour to a once a month meet up, we will have details soon about the date and time for September! We would love to have you join us, look out for more information soon =) There will not be a coloring hour this week.
Recording Posted: Illustrator Live with Laura Coyle
August 23rd Laura showed us how to properly insert documents from Illustrator to Photoshop and she went over a quick demo on preventing file and setting loss when Illustrator crashes. You can watch the demo here and download her PDF for Illustrator file recovery here. July 26th Laura gave us a tutorial on using Adobe Spark, This application is included with an Adobe CC subscription, it will help you create marketing campaigns, auto post to social media, and you can use to it layout artwork for collections, as well as watermark your photos. So many uses! Here is where to find the presentation. Laura will present again September 27th at 11am EST
If you have suggestions/questions for future sessions, please add them to this thread. You can ask her questions by tagging @laurac
Recording Posted: Exploring Photoshop with Sherry London
Sherry’s August topic was “From scanned image to Pattern Motifs”—How to prep non-destructively so you can repurpose motifs easily. This tutorial is a great refresher for using layer masks and smart objects on artwork you are editing. Find the recording with this link. Sherry’s next session will be September 19th at 11am EST If you have questions you can ask them in the tech talk forum and tag @prancingpixel
Check it Out: Summer Of Creativity
We just completed our 6 week Summer of Creativity course. If you didn’t have time to participate live, you can join in the fun anytime with this link. For this year’s Summer of Creativity, we headed “back to school” and explored a new topic each week that related surface pattern design to a different school subject like math, history, science, etc. And we did so together, as a group-study, through a dedicated forum and live events. You can participate any time you wish through our archived content. Be sure to check out our two Guest Expert presentations relating surface design to math and science, find the information and links below.
Here are some of the events happening this month. All times are Eastern and all live events will be recorded.
9/6/22- New Speedy Design Challenge Released
9/8/22- Weekly Art Critique with Melissa Schulz 1pm EST
9/12/22 – Ultimate Guide to Repeats Group-Study (Register here)
9/13/22- Guest Expert Paula Pappenheim of Pappenpop 11am EST
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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