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Last chance to enter for the Print & Pattern design scholarship (worth $1000!)

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**PLEASE NOTE THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED AND THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED. FIND OUT MORE HERE.**

Entries for the second Print & Pattern Scholarship for The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design close at midnight GMT on Tuesday 8 January. This is your last opportunity to be in with a chance to win this prize worth $1000!

The winner of the scholarship will be given a full place on all three modules of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, beginning on April 29 2013. The winner will also be featured in a future edition of MOYO. This prize is worth around $1000 and could be the catalyst for you to make headway in the exciting world of surface pattern design. See Issue 2 of MOYO Magazine for more details.

Simi Gauba, one of last year’s winners, is featured in the latest edition of MOYO here. Read her interview and find out what a difference the course has made to her design career.

To enter for this valuable opportunity please follow the submission guidelines detailed in Issue 2 of MOYO and complete your application by Tuesday 8 January 2013. The winner (chosen by Marie Perkins of Print & Pattern) will be announced in the third issue of MOYO, out in February 2013.

Someone has to win it – why not YOU? Good luck!

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The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. By submitting your work you agree to be featured online by Rachael Taylor Designs, Do What You Love, Print & Pattern, MOYO or any other third party chosen by Rachael Taylor and/or Beth Nicholls exclusively in relation to this opportunity. By submitting you give your permission to have your email address added to the mailing lists of Do What You Love and The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design. There is no fee payable to enter. You will retain all rights relating to your images. See Issue 2 of MOYO Magazine for more details.

We would like to thank Marie Perkins of Print & Pattern for her continued support and championing of emerging designers.

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And if you are already on your way with designing but want to learn how to Create Your Professional Identity or Monetise Your Designs then join us for one of our courses:

Module 2 ‘Create your professional identity’. Find out more and register here.

Module 3 ‘Monetise your designs’. Find out more and register here.

 

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PS In case you missed it… something very exciting is coming soon. See here for a sneak peek!

Shhh… a sneak peek into what is coming… (Hint: It involves the very awesome Lilla Rogers!)

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Doing what you love means different things to different people. For some it is about the way they make their living. For others it is a way of life. Whatever you take it to mean, there is no denying that if you can monetise your passion, you get to do what you love for a big chunk of every day, week, month and year. And that has got to be a good thing.

So many of you in the Do What You Love community are artists, and time and again we are asked for advice from those of you who want to make a living from your work. So we decided to do something about it.

There are many courses and sources of advice out there on how to market and sell the art you have made – and many of them are helpful. But we have decided to come at it from a radically different perspective, and start much earlier in the process.  Rather than advising how to sell the art you have made, our brand new course will give you industry insight on how to make art that is commercially viable in the first place – i.e. how to make art that sells.

This is not about selling out – it’s about staying true to yourself whilst making informed choices about what you create. And it is going to change everything for you.

This is your chance to learn how to make art that sells, directly from someone who has sold art for products worth over $100 million! 

For the past year we have been working with Lilla Rogers – one of the world’s top illustration agents – to create ‘Make Art That Sells’. For the first time ever Lilla will be sharing three decades’ worth of knowledge and experience through this pioneering two part online course, which will teach you how to make art that sells in the most lucrative markets in the world. You do not want to miss this!

Course registration formally launches on February 26, but places are limited so jump on the waiting list if you want to be the first to hear when registration is open (and to bag an exclusive discount)!

The course will begin in June (specific details to be released on Feb 26).  Be sure to register your interest and tell all your artist friends!

PS You can hear an inspiring interview with Lilla (by Monica Lee of Smart Creative Women) here and here. Please note the dates Lilla mentions in this interview are no longer accurate – as stated above registration opens on Feb 26 and the course will begin in June.

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DWYL final birthday giveaway: Holly Becker's 'Decorate Workshop' HB book

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Want to be a surface pattern designer? Win the Print & Pattern Design Scholarship (worth around $1000!)

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We are absolutely thrilled to launch the second Print & Pattern Scholarship for The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, in collaboration with Marie Perkins of leading pattern blog Print & Pattern.

The winner of this scholarship will win a full place on all three modules of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, beginning on April 29 2013. The winner will also be featured in a future edition of MOYO. This prize is worth nearly $1000 and could be the catalyst for you to make headway in the exciting world of surface pattern design.  See Issue 2 of MOYO Magazine for more details.

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Teaching what I love: shared story by Eileen Nishi

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Do What You Love interview – Craig Anczelowitz

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Craig Anczelowitz is a New Yorker who has been living in Thailand for the past 8 years. I met Craig when I was taking a fantastic course in papermaking at the Awagami papermill, which is owned by his wife’s lovely family. Craig is an artisan with an insatiable curiosity about the world. He works as a home décor designer and a fine artist creating mixed media assemblages. As a former buyer for a leading stationery retailer in the US, Craig is also incredibly knowledgeable about paper, and he helps develop and market Awagami’s amazing Japanese papers.

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Why taking a sabbatical can be good for business

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‘Working’ in the grounds of Honpoji Temple, Kyoto [image: Takeshi Kohari] 

I have recently got back from a six month ‘sabbatical’ in Japan. When I headed out there I was determined to get a change of pace in my work and home life. There were many business-related reasons to go, but in order to make it happen I had to put the brakes on some projects, let go of others, take on freelance support and really take a step back from the craziness that had gone before. But the results have been surprising.

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Living an artsy life: Traci Penrod shares her story

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 Today’s shared story comes from Traci Penrod. After 17 years in the pharmaceutical industry Traci decided that her career just didn’t tap into her creative side enough. She enjoyed scrapbooking so much that in October of 2011, she decided to take a leap of faith and start her own company.

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