Rachael Taylor joins The Design Trust speaker line-up at New Designers

Our Make it in Design course leader, flourishing surface pattern designer & illustrator and author Rachael Taylor will be in London on Thursday June 30, 2016 to join an impressive speaker line-up at New Designers.

Rachael will be joining The Design Trust’s Start Up Day which is a full, information-packed speaker event for recent design and craft graduates during the first week of New Designers which runs from 10.30am – 4.30pm. The Design Trust have invited some very successful creatives and experts to take the stage who will each be sharing their trade secrets with you (read on to download the full programme!)

Rachael will be taking part in two presentations: Her first is a 25 minute presentation starting at 2pm followed immediately after with a Q&A discussion with Patricia van den Akker from The Design Trust and the fabulous, award-winning textile designer Ella Doran.

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Rachael’s 25 minute presentation (2:00 – 2:25 pm) is titled ‘20 things you need to know about becoming a professional surface pattern designer‘. Here she’ll talk about what it REALLY takes to make it in this fabulous industry, sharing her top tips, practical advice and story of how she has made it.

At 2:30 Rachael is joined on stage by the award-winning designer, Ella Doran, who is best known for her photography based, innovative pattern designs for homeware. Patricia van den Akker, director of The Design Trust will lead a Q&A with Rachael and Ella about the ups and downs of their careers, the diverse routes and markets for textile designers, how they created their voice to stand out in the marketplace and where they see the future of design.

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The Design Trust Start Up Day also features a number of other exciting presenters including; Dids Macdonald OBE, CEO of Anti Copying in Design (ACID), Ruth Wassermann – Head of Design at MADE.com, Alison Lewy MBE, Founder of Fashion Angel, photograher Yeshen Venema and many more! Check out the full line-up here, register to attend the show here.

Download The Design Trust Start Up Day Programme

Discounted tickets

For a limited time you can get a 30% discount off your New Designers Ticket by using the code NDDESIGNTRUST when you purchase your tickets in advance. Offer ends June 19, 2016. Book on-line here.

Ticket offer


Visit our stand

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Don’t forget that the Make it in Design team have a stand at the show this year (A10 near to the cafe on the first floor!) so come along and chat to us about our upcoming on-line design courses from The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, details about this year’s Summer School, latest competitions and offers, ways to get involved and how to access all of our amazing resources to support you throughout your design career.

Drop us a line if you’ll be there [email protected] and come and say hi!

See you at the show!


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