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HUGE news! Creating Collections for Home Décor is BACK!

Do you want a home décor collection of your very own?

Imagine dropping round to a friend’s house for coffee and finding that she’s got mugs that you designed … Or imagine seeing your stunning art on beautiful cushions and throws in a shop and hearing customers exclaim over how lovely they are … Or imagine your fabulous ceramic tea set being picked up and featured in a glossy style magazine. How would that feel?

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If you’re harboring a secret (or not so secret) dream of having your very own home décor collection – a whole line of products featuring YOUR gorgeous art – we have amazing news for you: our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, is BACK as a LIVE course for 2022!

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What is home décor anyway? In short, it’s all the beautiful and/or functional items in your home. It covers a massive range of items – china, bedlinen, textiles, tableware, lighting, cushions, vases, ornaments, wall art, furniture, storage, and more.

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Art by Make Art That Sells student Wen Sylvestre for Creating Collections for Home Décor.

And it’s a huge market right now. Why? Well, a lot of us have been staying home a lot recently, and that has fuelled a desire to make our homes more appealing. Plus a lot of us () dealt with our pandemic anxiety by online shopping a lot. Add in the rise of social media, the popularity of home design TV shows, and more affluence in emerging economies, and you’ve got yourself a booming art market. According to a recent report from Allied Market Research, the global home décor market was worth an already sizeable $616.6 billion in 2019, and is estimated to reach a whopping $838.6 billion by 2027.

Want a slice of that pie? This is great news for artists and illustrators who want to explore or expand into this dreamy market, because all this means that art directors NEED your great art!

How can you grab a piece? How can you create and sell a home décor collection all of your very own? That’s where Creating Collections from Home Décor comes in. Not only will it teach you in-depth about five of the key substrates used in home décor design, but, more importantly, it will also teach you how to present your work as collections, which will make your work instantly more appealing to art directors. Not only are they more likely to notice you, but they are more likely to buy more from you, and work with you for longer because you know how to speak their language.

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Art by Make Art That Sells student Ruth Burrows for Creating Collections for Home Décor. Ruth is now represented by Lilla Rogers Studio after Lilla spotted her art in class!

Creating Collections for Home Décor was originally a live course, but has run as a self-paced, instant access for the past three years. Now it’s BACK for 2022, with THREE brand new trend boards to reflect the latest trends, plus all the deadlines, assignments, live reviews, inspiration and motivation you need to help you create your very best art, present it in a way that sells, and crack this incredible art market.

Meet your teacher!

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Creating Collections for Home Décor 2022 is taught by brilliant creative director and trend queen, Margo Tantau. From her years in the industry, Margo knows exactly what the market wants, and how to work with manufacturers to deliver that – and now she’s passing that insider knowledge on to you.

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Art by Make Art That Sells student Anna Lindsten for Creating Collections for Home Décor.

Here’s just some of the content you can expect from this career-changing one of a kind course:

  • Weekly Art Directors’ Cheat Sheets to tell you exactly how to woo an art director
  • A host of details about the manufacturing process which will make you look at the art you sell in a whole new light
  • Real examples of annotated product and collection sheets that show exactly what goes to the manufacturer – knowing this can help you make your art more attractive to an art buyer, because you can demonstrate your understanding of the process
  • A ton of specific finishing notes for metal, glass, fabric, ceramics and wood/MDF, to help you generate hundreds of product ideas and ideas for full collections
  • LIVE reviews of each week’s assignment, where you’ll exactly how a creative director sees your work and how you can make it even more commercially-appealing – and even if your art doesn’t get picked for the review, you’ll still learn a huge amount

… and tons more! If you want to build a creative career in this fascinating art market, you don’t want to miss this. You’ll transform your portfolio from a series of flat art pieces to a commercially-appealing showcase of your talent which demonstrates exactly what you are capable of. And it will give you the best chance of seeing your ideas turned into real product lines, with real companies, in real shops. How exciting is that?

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And that’s not all! Sign up for Creating Collections for Home Décor NOW during our giant Cyber Sale and you’ll save a huge 25% – or more if you buy as part of a bundle! HURRY! Sale ends Tuesday, November 30th!

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Lots of love

The Make Art That Sells team xxx

P.S. Don’t forget you’ll get Part 3 of Lilla’s fab free #MATSprep TOMORROW – if you haven’t done them already, catch up on Part 1 and Part 2 now!