What plans have you got for this summer? We hope it includes some time for your own creativity. Setting aside as little as 5-10 minutes a day to simply sketch or doodle is both great for our mental health and creative productivity.
So why not set a start date on your calendar and get a new sketch book ready and make the most of the sunshine this summer!
If you want to compliment this even further then our Summer Design School gives you experience working to future Spring/Summer trend briefs, helps build your portfolio and connect with other designers, and gives you the opportunity to get your work published!
Get an affordable taster for what Summer School is all about with our EARLY BIRD price offer!
From just £18 with our limited time offer!
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
*Two creative briefs inspired by future Spring/Summer trends to help you generate new sketches, patterns and collections
*Two trends exclusively curated by Porter & Brawn PLUS LIVE insight sessions where we look at each trend in depth and take any questions
*Two fun design challenges to get you responding to the brief but also out and about and having fun (one exercise in each of weeks 2 and 4)
*Access to our private Summer School Facebook group where you can connect with other designers participating in this cool event
*Impressive downloads to use in your projects
*Lots of chances to win amazing career enhancing prizes!
WHICH TRACK IS RIGHT FOR ME?
We offer three track levels of beginner, intermediate and advanced.
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 Summer School tracks is that the briefs ask different things from our students dependent on their level of creative skill e.g. beginner would ask you to create a simple pattern, intermediate would ask for a more complex pattern with a mock-up and advanced an even more complex pattern or collection of patterns with mock-ups.
The different tracks also work on different trends and therefore the briefs are tailored to the different trends. If you want to get access to all of the trends then this bundle is perfect for you.
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 Summer School does not include any technical guidance and can be done with any software you have available.
DO I NEED TO BE FREE ALL SUMMER?
Of course not!
Trend briefs for each track are released in Week 1 and 3 – that’s Monday July 25th and Monday August 8th and you can login to your account anywhere in the world with wifi (even on a sunny beach) and grab these AWESOME pdf trend briefs!
The fun challenges are released in Week 2 and 4 of class – that’s Monday August 1st and Monday August 15th. These are designed to get you thinking about the trends with prompts on how to dive deeper into the brief as well as stand-alone fun and creative prompts.
We’ve listened to our lovely design community and this year, if you are in it to win prize then ALL trend brief and fun challenges have a submission date of Monday September 12th (that’s 7 weeks to work up those gorgeous designs and take a holiday too).
You will have access to the classroom and resources until December 31, 2022! (Meaning you can download the trends and keeping work on them as long as you wish!)
AND access is via your own account to the online classroom 24/7 – meaning you can access at any time of day to suit YOU!
