Tag: design

6 Tips on how to start your own Fashion Design Business

Start A Fashion Business Tip 1 – Find a studio It can be a room in your house or you may be lucky enough to have a studio where you already have space to build your new design business. If you are choosing a room in your house declutter everything in there you will not … read more

Modern Contemporary

The surface pattern marketplace offers modern contemporary designs, with a twist totally unique ‘one of a kind’, designs that stand out. So, for instance, our designs can be used for apparel, furniture upholstery, soft furnishings, gift wrap, stationery, and packaging. Modern Designers Our highly creative designers are all Modern designers creating designs using inspiration from the … read more

Orla Kiely – Classic Textile Icon

Orla Kiely OBE Orla Kiely was born in 1963 an Irish Fashion Designer living in London, Began her career as a hat designer. She moved into designing for handbags and then on to textile design, kitchenware, and cars. Creativity Orla Kiely thanks her grandmother for bringing creativity into her life and her mother who graduated … read more

Print & Pattern Illustration

Sketching Over the next few months, we will be going over the tasks you need to cover to become a surface pattern designer. If this is something that you have stumbled upon after years of sketching, doodling, and pattern making from your own designs, and feel that this could be what you have been searching … read more

Trends and why do we follow them

Trends – what does it mean: Trend – is a general direction in which something is developing or changing – an upward trend direction – in Fashion – Meanings: the tendency, movement, drift, swing, shift, course, current, run, direction, inclination, learning. Fashion – “the latest trends in modern dance” – fashion, vogue, style, model, craze, … read more

Textile Design Graduate – Saumya Sharma

Saumya Sharma is based in Delhi, India. Saumya trained as a textile design graduate in Weaving, and worked for 4 years in the garment and textile industry, but she knew she wanted more. She knew from a young age, that she was going to end up in a creative field. Saumya never saw the world … read more