In January 2014, I was thrilled to begin offering WGSN access to designers in some of our workshops and Textile...
It’s exciting to have dreams of quitting your job and embracing freelance design. The big question is: when is the...
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*Balenciaga Fall “13 via vogue.com Hi there! This has been a busy week here at Pattern Observer…registration opened for The...
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I am not a detail oriented person, so as you can assume my experiences with bookkeeping have been a wild...
This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I am a fairly shy person and it is...
In the 2013 Pattern Industry Survey, 508 out of 773 designers answered this question : “How do you market your...
What does it mean to be a textile designer? As I was updating The Ultimate Guide to Repeats, this question...
