The Ultimate Portfolio Builder is an advanced seven-week online professional surface pattern design course, consisting of an intense five-week class followed by two weeks of design reviews.
This powerful course will give you all the tools and advice you need to grow your body of commercially viable work, refine and strengthen your professional design portfolio and give you the fast-track to trade show success.
As part of the course, one lucky person from our February class will win an incredible opportunity to get professional and personal trade show planning advice, wide spread exposure at a highly-respected exhibition dedicated to emerging creative talent, your work published in MOYO magazine and to continue your learning into other rewarding areas you may not have previously considered. The prize includes:
1) TRADE SHOW MENTORING & EXPERT ADVICE
Get a money-can’t-buy opportunity of a personal pre-show creative and business mentoring session with Make it in Design’s co-founders Beth and Rachael. At any point in your journey leading up to exhibiting at a show you can take advantage of a personal Skype call with Rachael and Beth to run through ideas, thoughts and ask questions about anything you like to help your show preparation!*
- 30 minute CREATIVE REVIEW session with Rachael Taylor on Skype
- 30 minute BUSINESS mentoring session with Beth Kempton on Skype
* Skype sessions must be pre-arranged with at least one month’s notice, are dependent on availability and must be taken before December 31, 2018.
2) GET PUBLISHED!
As part of this prize you will be awarded a four page feature in issue 11 of MOYO magazine! MOYO magazine is the first online magazine dedicated to surface pattern design and has been viewed an incredible 2.9 million times since it launched. You will enjoy a four page feature article about you and your gorgeous work and will be featured alongside our next cover star Lisa Congdon! The standard rate card for a full page in MOYO is £1,000 (over $1,200 USD) so this prize is worth plenty more! We will also promote your MOYO feature on the Make it in Design blog, in our e-newsletter and across our social networks.
- MOYO Magazine issue 11: A four-page feature article
- Dedicated coverage on the Make it in Design blog, e-newsletter and social channels to a potential audience of 50,000+ creatives
3) NEW DESIGNERS STAND PRESENCE
The Make it in Design team will be exhibiting at the popular New Designers Show (Part 1) in June 2018. This show is an incredible platform for hot new talent into the UK’s creative industries and as part of this prize we will happily offer you the chance to showcase some of your beautiful products and business cards*. If you can make the show we’d love you to join us for a day on the stand too!
- Presence on the Make it in Design stand at New Designers (Part 1) 27 June – 30 June 2018
* On acceptance of this prize the team will discuss available stand space and suitable products (maximum of 3). You must be able to ship your products to the Make it in Design team in the UK by the beginning of June 2018 and cover the cost of postage. After the show we will post your products back at our cost.
4) COMPLIMENTARY E-COURSE MASTERCLASS
Sharing what you know online can be a gateway to freedom and make a real difference in people’s lives. If you have something that you are passionate about, experienced in and want to share it with the world, creating a online course could be something to explore. Join Make it in Design’s co-founder and founder of Do What You Love, Beth Kempton, to discover if there’s an e-course in you that can be bought to life*.
- Complimentary access to Reach Teach Profit: The E-course Creation Masterclass worth £329 (over $400 USD)
* Sign up before June 30, 2018. This e-course is self paced and once registered you’ll have access to it until December 31, 2019.
The standard of ALL entries was so extremely high and it was such an enjoyable challenge for the panel to select the following designers. A HUGE thanks and CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!
Today we are delighted to bring you the shortlist of entries as selected by our Co-founders Rachael Taylor and Beth Kempton and the Make it in Design Team. The standard of ALL entries was incredibly high and it was such an enjoyable challenge for the panel to select the following designers.
Cat Christopherson | UK | Instagram
Cat’s use of colour feels so wonderfully fresh and compliments her design work perfectly. Gorgeous!
Jimena Garcia | Australia | Website
Your designs are so fabulously vibrant and would be perfect across the fashion market – we cannot wait to see where you take these!
Jo Fryer | Australia | Instagram
Jo’s work is stunning and beautiful with such a wonderful grasp of colour to enhance your designs. It’s wonderful to see two very different colour palettes which gives a great sense of your diversity as a designer.
Krista Power | Canada | Website
Beautiful work. In particular, we loved your restrained colour palette and use of simple but evocative shapes. Your work is wonderfully sophisticated and versatile.
(Malene Kirk) Frigg & Freya | Denmark
Your work is so fresh and bold and we just loved your use of colour. We can really see the work across the home interior section – perfect!
Melissa Lee | USA | Website
Your work, in particular the deer print is so fun and lively. Your use of colours makes all your work so fresh and inviting. So much potential here in what you can use these for.
Yani Mengoni | Perth, Australia | Website
We loved Yani’s bold and striking florals which really jumped off the screen at us. You have such an interesting use of colours and we particularly loved the colour palette of your first board.
We were so delighted with all the entries and a HUGE congratulations to the shortlisted designers – we will announce the final winner Tuesday May 22, 2018.
In the meantime please do take the opportunity to find out more about each of the designers at the links above.
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