Welcome to Manifesto Monday, where we share some of the Manifesto artwork submitted by our Make Art That Sells Alumni. Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, so please put yourself on the waiting list to be one of the first to hear, when registration opens. *** Katie Vernon Jennifer Geldard Angel Gerardo Samantha Grenier Cathrin Gressieker *** MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor is open for registration! Join Margo and Lilla this summer to learn about how to create winning presentations that will make you and your art stand out. REGISTER HERE
How Alumni Laurence Lavallee found her Flow again after taking MATS A
We love this video from MATS Alumni Laurence Lavallee aka ‘Flo’. Laurence describes her experience of taking the MATS A course through the life of a little bird who was lost before she found ‘Make Art That Sells‘ and a community of wonderful designers. Laurence submitted this as part of our class competition and won a free spot in MATS B starting in October. *** Would you like to find your design path and a wonderful community to travel along with? Our brand new class ‘Creating Collections for Home Decor‘ teaches you how to create collections for home décor and present it in a winning pitch! So start thinking about what kind of products you might like to see your work on. Class starts on Monday 22 June and runs for 5 weeks. Registration is open here
Manifesto Monday part 11
Welcome to Manifesto Monday, where we share some of the Manifesto artwork submitted by our Make Art That Sells Alumni. Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, so please put yourself on the waiting list to be one of the first to hear, when registration opens. *** Sabeth Elberse Tracey English Wendy Fedan Kim Fleming Georgia Florena Shaban Lynn Gaines *** MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor is open for registration! Join Margo and Lilla this summer to learn about how to create winning presentations that will make you and your art stand out. REGISTER HERE
Manifesto Monday part 10
Welcome to Manifesto Monday, where we share some of the Manifesto artwork submitted by our Make Art That Sells Alumni. Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, so please put yourself on the waiting list to be one of the first to hear, when registration opens. *** Berna Datema Shelley Deck Ciara Ni Dhuinn Sigga Dis Laurie Downing Megan Dunagan *** MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor is open for registration! Join Margo and Lilla this summer to learn about how to create winning presentations that will make you and your art stand out. REGISTER HERE
Manifesto Monday part 9
Welcome to Manifesto Monday, where we share some of the Manifesto artwork submitted by our Make Art That Sells Alumni. Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, so please put yourself on the waiting list to be one of the first to hear, when registration opens. *** Chloé CRES Catherine Chalmers Joanne Cocker Julie Cossette Emily Cromwell Tara Daavettila *** MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor is open for registration! Join Margo and Lilla this summer to learn about how to create winning presentations that will make you and your art stand out. SPECIAL OFFER! Register for MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor before May 6 (midnight GMT) and get a complementary place on Lilla Rogers’ Global Talent Search later this year (worth £25 / assignments are sent out on August 14)! REGISTER HERE before May 6, 2015!
What makes a great Home Décor Collection and start sketching your own!
This is a guest blog post by Margo Tantau, VP of Creative at MidwestCBK Margo has co-written our brand new course, MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor, with Lilla Rogers. She will also be speaking at MATS: The Global Art Gathering, our LIVE event in Brighton UK this June. Home Décor as a rule, needs designs that can be LIVED with. I won’t be cliché and say “ageless and timeless”, but I will say, think about what the subject matter is, what kind of a home it might be going in, as well as what would potentially sell most broadly. Think of all the varieties of style that you see on the market, on Pinterest and in magazines. Designs that are sophisticated, clean, lovely, graphic, floral… these are all relevant to Home Décor. Collections need to go well together, and equally and strongly should stand on their own. Designing these
Brighton event poster design competition – winner announced!
As a one-off special assignment in our current Make Art That Sells Bootcamp class, we recently challenged class participants to design a poster for our upcoming LIVE event in Brighton, UK, in June, ‘Make Art That Sells: The Global Art Gathering’. We were absolutely blown away by the response, and it was a difficult decision for Lilla, her studio ladies and our guest judge Judy Stevens, founder of Artists Open Houses Brighton. After much deliberation they decided that the winner would be KATIE VERNON, whose stunning poster design completely captured the character of Brighton, a buzzing creative city on the South Coast of England.
Top tips for creating a presentation that will knock the Art Director’s socks off…
This is a guest blog post by Margo Tantau, VP of Creative at MidwestCBK Margo has co-written our brand new course, MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor, with Lilla Rogers. She will also be speaking at MATS: The Global Art Gathering, our LIVE event in Brighton UK this June. So what could I share with you that could take your work from good to fabulous (and even more commercial)? Well, I’ve been creating and selling Home Décor products for years, and my very favorite thing to do is to help grow the careers of creative people. So to that end… I have a few pointers and things for you to think about.
April Bootcamp Gallery is Live!
The April gallery from our Make Art That Sells: Assignment Bootcamp class is now live! You can view it here: This month, we challenged our students to design a poster for our exciting Global Art Gathering taking place in Brighton, UK in June. The gallery features nearly 300 pieces of original art submitted as part of this live brief. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE APRIL GALLERY! There was so much fabulous work submitted in response to this brief, and we love the ongoing supportive energy in the Bootcamp community. What a generous, talented group of artists they are! Our next Bootcamp will be running in 2016, read more and jump on the waiting list here. *** Have you heard about our brand new class? ‘Creating Collections for Home Decor‘ teaches you how to create collections for home décor and present it in a winning pitch! So start thinking about what
How to leverage your existing artwork for the home décor market
Image credit: West Elm Is your mind buzzing with ideas about what your very own home décor line could look like? It’s not an impossible dream if only you have the right tools and knowledge at your fingertips. In fact, you are probably already half way there! Look through your archives and find the following: Your favorite color palettes Your favorite icons and motifs Your favorite prints and patterns Now it’s time to do some virtual shopping (or real shopping if you like!) – do one of the following this week: Take a field trip to your favorite shop (either in person or online) Study com, apartmenttherapy.com, or designsponge.com Look at the website of a home décor trade show like Maison et Objet in Paris. See who exhibits, and check out their websites to see what products they offer. (And if you’re really serious about this, why not start planning