Chelsea’s Challenge is a monthly post series in The Textile Design Lab, in which we share design ideas and inspiration to...
Sally Pickles is a passionate surface designer who created this Winter Bloom collection while a student in our Sellable Sketch e-course. The beautiful textural...
Tyson Anthony Roberts is a contemporary visual artist based in Sacramento, CA. He studied biology and art at UC Davis...
Marie Gardeski is an artist and illustrator based in Indiana, who creates the most fun and whimsical patterns out of her drawings,...
Images via: (clockwise from top left) “IMG_8098” by Solarbotics, “laser cutter at work” by Steven Kay (cropped from original), “Laser Cut Feather” by Solarbotics (cropped from original), “Trying out some maps” by Solarbotics (cropped...
Designing home decor patterns is a nice, happy medium between the more extreme fashion and quilting industries. For example, trends...
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. Katagami is the traditional Japanese art of paper stencils, and...
We were so delighted by this collage of whimsical prints that Ellen Giggenbach sent over! It is always such a treat to...
Trishawna Quincy has extensive experience as a swimwear designer for brands ranging from Jantzen Swimwear to Forever 21. I met...
This week we are celebrating the work of our wonderfully talented Mastering Your Market graduates by sharing a few of their stories...
Mastering Your Market begins June 22nd, 2015, and this week we will be sharing the stories of a few of our...
Despite living in Portland, Oregon, the home of “Crafty Wonderland,” I am the opposite of “crafty.” I took a quilting...