If fabric is the hand, then the prints are the heart.

Prints are the heart of fashion

Print Life

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branded vision board, novella royale, print life

While working through the content for my workshops, it struck me how important a branded vision board is to our whole process as designers. For those of you who have attended any of my workshops, you might have already done this. But for those of you who have not, I wanted to share that process […]

The Branded Vision Board

The Design Path

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freelance print designer, freelance life, work from home

There are so many paths you can take to find yourself with a beautiful career as a freelance print designer. The most important place to start is by answering some very important questions about what it is you want from your career. Do you want to work from home and make your own schedule or […]

Getting started as a freelance print designer

Careers

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create cohesion in your mini print collections

Create cohesion in your mini print collections

Portfolios

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When I started out in the industry, I was not familiar with the term prints. Even in fashion design school when we choose fabrics for our collections, some were solid and some had patterns or textures. It was as simple as that. It wasn’t until my first job in the sleepwear industry as a graphic […]

What is a print?

Print Life

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fast fashion, looking to the past, resell, vintage

Looking to the past to create ‘newness’ is nothing new… ‘if we want things to continue…first, everything must change’ I heard the above quote at a forecasting seminar last week in LA, and it stuck with me. There are so many ways you can interpret this today, but for me…it isn’t about the idea of […]

Looking to the past to create newness

Print Life

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design niche, surface pattern designers

A combination of your niche, your unique style and your market focus as a print designer.

Design Niche

The Design Path

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adding value to your designs with a twin print

Adding Value to your Print Designs

Portfolios

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