EXCLUSIVE Summer School 2017 Competition with Pink Pig International

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 Patternbank 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 2017 is a 4-week online design event running from July 31 – 25 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 2018 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.

Register today:

Each track is priced at £20 and we offer an attractive discount if you sign up for more than one. Scroll down to find the track or combination of tracks you wish to take, click on the image and complete a short form to register:

1) REGISTER FOR 1 TRACK: (£20)

Visit our SHOP or click on an image below:

2) REGISTER FOR 2 TRACKS: (£35)

ENTER EXCLUSIVE CODE :sschool17take2beg+int OR sschool17take2int+adv  at the checkout after adding each individual track to the shopping cart

3) REGISTER FOR ALL 3 TRACKS: (£45)

ENTER EXCLUSIVE CODE: sschooltakeall3  at the checkout after adding each individual track to shopping cart

There are also unique opportunities to have your work published in the Surface Pattern Design Lookbook Vol 4, MOYO magazine and across the MIID network.

THE SURFACE PATTERN DESIGN LOOK BOOK

Last month we were so excited to share the ‘The Surface Pattern Design Lookbook – Volume 3‘ – an amazing collection of designs curated from the Make it in Design Summer School 2016!

Last year we provided a summer of fun with six detailed design briefs for our students to create to and we we’re absolutely blown away by the submissions! So much so that we just had to share them. We were joined by hundreds of people from over thirty countries as they designed to a variety of trends from pop art to summer botanicals.

So as a celebration and thank you to the wonderful work produced here is ‘The Surface Pattern Design Lookbook – Volume 3‘!  You can view a selection of the pages below or click here to view the lookbook on Issu.

THE PINK PIG COMPETITION

We are thrilled to be joining forces with our friends at The Pink Pig 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 2017.  In addition one lucky winner will get the chance to see their winning design feature on the cover of a Pink Pig sketchbook and sold via Amazon. The winner will receive a £300 cash prize!

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 #summerschool no later than Monday July 24, 2017.
• 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 2017 which starts July 31, 2017.

*The Small Print

• The winner will be chosen by The Pink Pig Team after Monday July 24, 2017 and announced on the MIID website.
• The prize is for a place on the beginner, intermediate and advanced track of Summer School 2017 which starts July 31, 2017.
• The Summer School 2017 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 sold via Amazon. A cash prize of £300 will be offered in return for the copyright and exclusive use of the design by The Pink Pig
• The Pink Pig reserve the right to withdraw the print prize.