OVERVIEW

Our Winter Design School takes place across 4 weeks, January to February) offers a host of exciting creative challenges including: briefs inspired by future Autumn/Winter trend reports from the fabulous trend consultants Porter & Brawn, an amazing chance to get your designs printed onto fabric and gift wrap thanks to Fashion Formula, awesome downloads, fun creative tasks, lovely prizes, the chance to get featured by Make it in Design and lots of treats along the way too!

Start your new year with inspiration and creativity. Sign up for our beginner track and use this opportunity to stretch yourself, connect with other designers, experience working to a brief, grow your portfolio and get your work published!

IT ALL BEGINS HERE.

GET READY TO JOIN IN THE FUN

CLASS DATES: January 29 – February 23, 2024 (please note submission dates will be later)

Designs by Jill Hasbach-Broeren, Vicky Morse and Denise Ortakales

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Two beginner trend design briefs inspired by future Autumn/Winter trends to help you generate new sketches and simple patterns (one brief each in weeks 1 & 3)
Two trends exclusively curated by Porter & Brawn
Two fun beginner creative challenges to get you out and about and having fun (one exercise each in weeks 2 & 4)
A chance to see your work come alive on fabric and tea towels thanks to Fashion Formula who will select 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners per track
Access to our private Winter School Facebook group where you can connect with other designers participating in this cool event
Impressive downloadable rights-free stock templates exclusively styled for Make it in Design to enable you to produce professional mock-ups for your portfolio
Chance to win a free place on our self-paced / instant access course Module 1: Designing your way
Get your work featured on the Make it in Design website and across our social networks

3 example pages from our trend design briefs

INFORMATION AND REQUIREMENTS

You will be able to tackle the briefs either on the computer or off the computer for the beginner track, however the intermediate and advanced creative briefs will be aimed at software users but our briefs are very open to interpretation.

The difference in Winter Design School tracks is that the briefs ask different things from our students dependent on their level of creative skill:

The Beginner Track asks you to create a simple pattern or print (on or off the computer, software not required)
The Intermediate tracks asks for a more complex pattern with this applied to a mock-up that is provided (intermediate software knowledge required)
The Advanced Tracks ask for a repeat pattern or collection of patterns applied to mock-ups that are provided (advanced software knowledge required)

The different tracks also work on different trends and therefore the briefs are tailored to the different trends. All tracks run at the same time so that our wonderful community can interact with one another in our private Facebook community for the duration of the event.

Please note Winter Design School does not include any technical guidance and can be completed with any software you have available.

WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY ...

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

Check out our Terms & Conditions page. We strongly encourage you to read these before registering, as registering for one or more courses or bundles acknowledges acceptance of these Terms & Conditions.

What our graduates say

“I would describe this course as 'life changing'. I have learnt so much and feel more prepared and ready to begin my first steps into the world as a professional surface pattern designer.”

Rakha