The May 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 create a set of plates from crustacean pattern imagery. The gallery features nearly 250 pieces of original art submitted. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE MAY 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 kind of products you might like to see your work on. Class starts
Manifesto Monday part 12
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!
How to make a great home decor collection
Image credits: Sissy+Marley This is a guest blog post by Margo Tantau. Margo has co-written our brand new course, 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. How to make a great home decor collection Margo here. Today I’m going to give you some tips on how to make a great home decor collection. Home decor, 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
Brighton event poster design winner!
See the Brighton event poster design winner! As a one-off special assignment for our current Assignment Bootcamp class, we recently challenged class participants to design a poster for our upcoming LIVE Global Art Gathering event in Brighton, UK, in June. 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 is KATIE VERNON, whose stunning poster design completely captured the character of Brighton, a buzzing creative city on the south coast of England. Katie Vernon This is what the judges said about Katie’s piece: Style It was definitely one of the most original pieces shown. It stood out from the others. The style is highly evolved and rendered in a consistent manner throughout the poster. The icons on the body are
Top tips for creating a home decor pitch
This is a guest blog post by Margo Tantau, VP of Creative at MidwestCBK. Margo has co-written our brand new course, 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. Top tips for creating a home decor pitch Hi, Margo here! So what top tips for creating a home decor pitch 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 top tips for creating a home decor pitch. Vase shapes by Louise Gelderblom Here are some top tips for creating a home decor pitch. These are things that
April 2015 Bootcamp gallery is live!
April 2015 Bootcamp gallery is live! The April gallery from our Make Art That Sells: Assignment Bootcamp class is now live! 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. 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.