What are your hopes, dreams and plans for 2016?

As the year kicks off we’re excitedly preparing the classrooms for the next round of our popular surface pattern design e-courses and working hard setting up exciting new projects and partnerships to deliver the things you’ve asked us for in 2016. We can’t wait to reveal them throughout the year!

We’ve been sharing our hopes, dreams and big plans for 2016 – personally and professionally

Besides welcoming new friends, strengthening existing relationships, celebrating even more pattern, colour and design and watching your careers flourish, here are a few things we’re looking forward to in 2016! … we’d love to hear what your big plans are for 2016!

Beth Kempton – co-founder of Make it in Design and author

I’m most looking forward to writing a book (hush hush for now, but details to be revealed soon)!

Rachael Taylor – co-founder of Make it in Design and creative genius

I’m really excited to be launching a range of personalised products this year, it has been a dream of mine for quite some time. I love that I can invent an idea, design it, produce it, and then to be able to sell it is such a magical feeling! I’m hoping to get a little further with my home renovations at my new house and feel very lucky to be able to use my own designs within it.

I’m also looking forward to exploring the world a little more with a family holiday and have a couple of potential overseas work trips in the pipeline and running a half marathon this March. I quite like the unknown too and just seeing where the year unexpectedly takes me.

<<sneak peek of Rachael’s new goodies hot off the press!>>

Lisa Moncrieff – MIID sales and marketing manager and dancer

I can’t wait for a long awaited girls holiday to Marbella this May – an adventure which also combines with one of my best friend’s wedding! I can picture it now; drinking cocktails on the beach, busting out some unique moves on the dance floor every night and laughing for four days solid – YES!! In addition, now with almost a year of Make it in Design under my belt I can’t wait to get face-to-face with our lovely design community as we make plans to attend more industry shows and create our own events around the globe – maybe we’ll be coming to a city near you! I hope to see you soon!

Vic Lem – MIID education and resources officer and fellow ABSPD course participant

I’m really excited about the fact that myself and sales and marketing manager Lisa will celebrate a year with MIID next month and we’ve so many exciting things planned for 2016. I am really looking forward to following the journey of our two UPB Printsource winners who will exhibit in New York this summer. Also we’ve new classes starting next month which are always great fun and exciting times. This year I’d love to take part in one of the classes so watch this space …

Printsource New York, 2015

Kelly Crossley, creative design assistant and traveller

2015 was such a huge year for Make it in Design and 2016 is set to be even bigger! I’m looking forward to all of the exciting projects that MIID will be working on this year, from repeated activities such as Summer School and #Patternbombing, to brand new things we will be introducing. Either way, the MIID community is the place to be for design in 2016! I’m also looking forward to connecting more with the MIID team this year, with more regular meetings and idea generation sessions. We truly have an amazing, dedicated team who are also so much fun to be around! Personally, I am also looking forward to travelling more this year and generally soaking in all that inspiration, whether this is from travelling or from our community itself. The MIID community is so wonderfully supportive and encouraging and I look forward to seeing even more of that this year. I hope you all have a brilliant, spectacular and tremendous 2016 full of fun design goodness!

Eleanor Smith, freelance designer and renovator

I have quite a big and extremely exciting project on my hands this year, my own studio! Starting at the end of February, my cellar will be converted into my very own work space. I’m so thrilled that I will finally have a space similar to how I worked at university. I want to create somewhere I can get stuck in and do some crazy messy stuff whilst at the same time have somewhere I can also do the tidy, creative work, on my laptop! I’m not just excited to have the studio, I think creating my own space will be one of the most fun challenges I’ve ever done. My 2016 instagram will probably be turned into ‘cellar conversion’!