If you missed our daily posts on the 10 Reasons to take our MATS Creating Collections for Home Décor course, here is a round up with links!     Feel like this is exactly what you need?  *** Want a piece of the $60 Billion Home Decor industry? What is home décor? It’s all the gorgeous and/or functional items in your house. It’s a booming market that needs tons of art, with over $60 billion in annual sales. Its massive growth is due in part to the popularity of home design TV shows, Pinterest, and Instagram, and stylish online retailers like One Kings Lane and Dot&Bo. Art directors NEED your great art! Our next live e-course, Make Art That Sells: Creating Collections for Home Décor starts will take place 7th August 2017 and teaches you everything you need to know to create killer presentations with your art. Want to learn more about

Welcome to our video series on Designing for Home Décor. We’re so glad you’ve joined us! This week you’ll gain an insight into the world of home décor and start to think about how to translate your art from paper or screen to different substrates and materials. Part 1 is below. The home décor industry is huge. Chances are you can look around right now and spot some artwork on a rug, a cushion, a coaster, a stool or a table top. What kind of home items can you picture your art on? This video series is a great introduction to our upcoming course, MATS – Creating Collections for Home Décor. The 5-week course will help you refine your ideas, design your collection and create a comprehensive, professional and winning home décor pitch presentation to wow art directors internationally. *** An introduction to all things home décor – the things

If you find yourself stuck in a creative rut, or feel that you have pigeon-holed yourself in one area and you need some fresh inspiration, this course will be fantastic for you. Not only do you get three trend boards to inspire you, but every week is packed with product eye candy to show you what is possible in the home décor market. Furthermore, Lilla and Margo set fun but challenging briefs that will push you outside your creative comfort zone and make you realize just what you are capable of. If you want to get inspired, don’t miss it! REGISTER HERE Zoe Ingram’s Petit Bazaar collection for Midwest CBK, created in collaboration with Margo   Feel like this is exactly what you need?  *** Want a piece of the $60 Billion Home Decor industry? What is home décor? It’s all the gorgeous and/or functional items in your house. It’s

Imagine walking into Anthropologie and seeing your art on a line of products. Can you imagine your art on plates, pillows, rugs, tea towels…? How do you get that gig? Wherever you picture your art, top art director Margo Tantau will help you turn your dreams into reality. Start today with our FREE video series, Designing for Home Décor. You’ll learn: All about home décor, a lucrative market for artists How to lay out your work so that art directors will license your art Getting your products made Popular materials that are used in home décor Getting paid Showing what a presentation looks like from our Home Decor class Margo Tantau, Creative & Design lead at MADISON PARK GROUP, offers her top tips on everything from design to delivery (including grabbing the attention of art directors everywhere). This video series comes in 5 parts on the following themes: Home Décor

Since launching in 2013, Make Art That Sells has rapidly gained a reputation as the go-to place for anyone serious about making commercially viable art whilst staying true to themselves. We have been completely blown away by the response of our participants (many of whom have come back to repeat the course), and have been thrilled to see huge leaps forward in their artwork. Collection by Lynn Gaines inspired by Margo’s ‘Field Flowers’ class trend board Make Art That Sells really works, as can be seen in these blog posts sharing some of the many jobs participants have landed since graduating: How MATS artists are rocking it Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 and all of our Alumni Success stories here Here are a few words from graduates of MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor: “I felt like my world expanded while taking this course, not only through the insight

For graduates of our other Make Art That Sells courses, Lilla’s pep talks are legendary. The MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor course brings you a whole set of weekly pep talks about the creative life, packed with tips, tricks and advice from your Fairy Artmother. Lilla also shares a series of thoughts about growing your creative business, which are sure to inspire some a-ha moments. Behind-the-scenes of the filming of the course Did we mention they are filmed in her newly decorated studio, with a ton of gorgeous products and quirky vintage finds to drool over… Besides the pep talks, MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor is packed full of resources you can’t get anywhere else, including: Finishing notes for manufacturing in metal, ceramics, fabric, glass and wood/mdf (this is what helps you speak the language of the art directors, and get your products manufactured how you want) A series

All the Make Art That Sells experiences are special, not only because of what you learn and how you grow, but because of who you share the experience with. Each course offers you the opportunity to join a private online community of artists just like you – others who want to make it as a professional, who also have growing pains, successes to celebrate, and advice to share. Often class participants form strong bonds with other artists in class, organizing local meetups, becoming friends and even exhibiting together at trade shows. This class is just like that—you will share the experience with a community of artists from all over the world. You can be part of something amazing, and that is something to be treasured. MATS manifesto by alumnus Annabel Tempest Gone are the days when art school was the only place to learn how to make art and get

At the beginning of the course you will be provided with three cutting edge trend boards. These have been put together for you by art director Margo Tantau who knows exactly what is hot and what is not. You will choose one of these trend boards as your guide and inspiration for the entire course. Each week you will get a mini exercise to loosen you up, and then a full Assignment to help you develop a professional-level portfolio piece. Each Assignment will be inspired by the trend board you choose, to ensure that the work you produce is on trend or ahead of trend. Class work by Sandrine Monnier, inspired by one of Margo’s trend boards After the full five weeks, you will end up with an outstanding, commercially-viable and very current presentation of a full home décor collection, featuring products made from the five most popular substrates of

MATS classes are generally not technical classes, but in the case of MATS Creating Collections for Home Décor, we include technical guidance on how to mock up your collection ideas onto innovative product templates. ‘Happy Together’ collection by course graduate Sophie Dufresne Top art director and co-course leader Margo Tantau provides you with a host of interesting product templates for each of the five most popular materials used in the home décor market—fabric, metal, glass, ceramics and wood/MDF. As a class participant you have permission to use these rights free in your portfolio, and they will spark a ton of ideas for creating your own templates too. Furthermore, through participating in the class, you will see the work of many other talented artists, which will inspire you to dream up new ideas and present your collections in innovative ways. There is NOTHING else out there quite like this. Feel like