When launching a freelance textile design business, the list of assumed “must-haves” and “must-knows” can be long and understandably overwhelming....
Is your artistic style varied? Do you feel like a design chameleon, switching between aesthetics, such as painterly florals and...
*Balenciaga Fall “13 via vogue.com Hi there! This has been a busy week here at Pattern Observer…registration opened for The...
* images via: Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 2013, vogue.com The life cycle of a print has many stages: trend research, concept...
In last week’s newsletter I shared a few things that we are working on for 2013, including: 1. A Pattern...
How many design competitions have you entered this year? If you are like many readers, you may have lost count...
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...
Sometimes it is difficult to know how you want to grow your business. You know that you want to be...
When I first started working as a textile designer, this industry was quiet….eerily quiet. There were no blogs or online...
In this final post of the five-part series, we will cover how to compile your research and design creations into...
