Back by popular demand, the Make it in Design Summer School offers exciting creative briefs inspired by 2018 trend reports from the fabulous top trend forecasting websites Porter & Brawn and WGSN! It also offers an amazing chance to get your work published, and comes with awesome bonus materials, fun tasks, great prizes, and lots of surprises!
Summer School 2018 is a 4-week online design event running from July 30 – 24 August. It’s aimed at designers who want to fill their summer with inspiration and creativity.
There are three tracks to choose from – Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced – they are an ideal platform to learn how to design to a Spring / Summer 2019 trend-inspired brief, to connect with other designers around the world, to grow your portfolio, and to win prizes! Please feel free to sign up for one or more options and use this opportunity to stretch yourself, meet other creative, experience working to a brief, expand your portfolio, and even get your work published!
Each track is priced at £20 (bundle deals are available for multiple tracks: £35 for two tracks and £45 for all three tracks) and registration includes:
- Two creative briefs* (weeks 1 & 3 per track)
- Two fun design challenges (weeks 2 & 4 per track)
- Downloadable bonus material including colour palettes, room stock images, wall papers and textures depending on the track
- Access to a private Facebook group to connect with other designers from across the world participating in Summer School
- Chance to win a free place on our acclaimed online course The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design.
Each track is priced at £20 and we offer an attractive discount if you sign up for more than one so visit our SHOP now for further details!
THE PINK PIG COMPETITION
We are thrilled to be joining forces with our friends at The Pink Pig once again this summer to bring you an exciting and EXCLUSIVE design competition.
Pink Pig International are offering a FREE place on ALL THREE TRACKS of the Make it in Design Summer School 2018. In addition one lucky winner will get the chance to see their winning design feature on the cover of a Pink Pig sketchbook and the winner will receive 10 personalised copies!
To take part you need to create a ‘summer inspired’ surface pattern design and share via Instagram.
Based in Yorkshire, UK, Pink Pig International has been supplying quality handmade sketchpads to artists and art students for 25 years and boast the largest range of sketchbooks as a company globally with over 11,000 iterations of products varying in colour and size – AWESOME!
Watch their video to find out more about this fantastic company and the below links for more details:
Connect with The Pink Pig: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
HOW IT WORKS
- Create a ‘summer inspired’ surface pattern design. (One design per entrant please)
- Be sure to create your surface pattern design at 300 DPI (square, portrait, or landscape is fine) and share as a low-res image online in the first instance
- Please retain your high res version should you be selected as the winner and you will be contacted directly for this
- Share your entry on Instagram using the hashtags #makeitindesign #pinkpigsketchbooks #summerschool2018 no later than Thursday July 26, 2018.
- Please ensure that you follow @makeitindesignand @pinkpigsketchbooks
- Don’t forget to tag @makeitindesign and @pinkpigsketchbooks in your post!
- The winner will be chosen by team at The Pink Pig and will win a place on ALL THREE at The Make it in Design Summer School 2018 which starts July 30, 2018.
The Small Print
- The winner will be chosen by The Pink Pig Team after Thursday July 26, 2018 and announced on the MIID website.
- The prize is for a place on the beginner, intermediate and advanced track of Summer School 2018 which starts July 30, 2018.
- The Summer School 2018 prize is not transferable and not exchangeable for any monies.
- In addition the winner will be offered the chance to see their winning design feature on a sketchbook and will be offered ten personalised copies to keep by The Pink Pig
- The Pink Pig reserve the right to withdraw the print prize.
