Today we’re going to be talking about the importance of a market focus as a print designer in the apparel space. The three main reasons to have a market focus have been outlined below to help you see how this can begin to shape your career and impact the success that you’ll find along your […]

Have you ever felt stuck trying to identify your unique style as a print designer?

Once creative direction has been established it is important to get on the same page

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

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 […]

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 […]

create cohesion in your mini print collections

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 […]

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 […]