MOYO Magazine / / Christmas Gift Guide!

We are excited to bring you the downloadable MOYO Festive Gift Guide. Packed full of unique gift ideas from talented designers, we hope this guide gives you ideas for presents to delight this holiday season. From pretty Christmas tree baubles to gorgeous gift wrap, you are sure to find something just perfect for friends and loved ones. The products come from around the world and all the featured designers are members of the MOYO Directory, or alumni of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design.

This special downloadable version is a gorgeous selection of our favourite products that have been sent in. All of the entries are being featured on the Make it in Design blog here until Tuesday 17th December. Below are just a few of the beautiful pages inside the guide.

To download the gift guide simply go here. If you are on an iPad click here to view the magazine on Issu.com. If you want to download this guide or any of our MOYO magazines, here are some simple guidelines to help you: Downloading MOYO.

Please feel free to share this page and link to the Gift Guide on your blog, in your newsletters and tell all your friends about it. Wishing you all a wonderful festive season, from the Make it in Design team!

SurfacePhilia - New Ranges!

My lovely friend Helen Stevens at SurfacePhilia, & fantastic contributor to the e-course, has just released two new ranges! She is now selling mugs with entrepreneur Mary Portas in association with House of Fraser & has just developed a new range of printed cushions! Phew! One busy lady!

You can shop online for her beautiful mugs by clicking here (scroll to the bottom of the page) & you can find her cushions on her online shop as well as the rest of her lovely products such as greetings cards, mugs, prints, wallpapers & dinner plates. You can see images of both ranges below & read our previous blog post that introduced Surface Philia here!

If you are interested in 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design (the e-course)' we are thrilled to announce we are running a third series (starting in August 27th 2012) Register here! If you want to know more about the course you can also read our lovely testimonials.

Don't miss out on our next run of Module 3 'Monetising Your Designs' which is running 3rd September 2012! Click here for more information!

Ian Dutton Designs

Happy Thursday everyone!

Lovely designer friend of mine, Ian Dutton, who is a fabulous contributor to the e-course, has recently set up a new website & online shop, showcasing his wonderful work on a range of prints from painting to surface pattern design. We especially love his cute character illustration (see the funny little character on his website homepage!).

Below you can see a selection of Ian's fantastic work as well as some of the prints he sells (which are available here) & images of his lovely website! You can also read a previous post by guest blogger Hannah by clicking here!

If you are interested in 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design (the e-course)' we are thrilled to announce we are running a third series (starting in August 27th 2012) Register here! If you want to know more about the course you can also read our lovely testimonials.

Don't miss out on our next run of Module 3 'Monetising Your Designs' which is running 3rd September 2012! Click here for more information!

The Talented Libby McMullin!

This afternoon is a special little one off post to congratulate the talented designer Libby McMullin (& lovely friend of mine) she is doing amazingly well & is currently exhibiting at the Home & Gift show in Harrogate. It's so great to hear that she has been snapped up by so many stockists. Libby is exceptionally gifted & a fabulous lady! Go Libby!

You may also like to read some of our previous posts about Libby here & here you can also check out her beautiful stand at Progressive Greetings. You can also connect with Libby on Twitter @LibbyMcMullin & via her Facebook page.

(*If you want to catch Libby at the show find her on stand H75)

 

Chris Piascik

Chris Piascik is an American artist, graphic designer & illustrator based in New England who is currently working as a freelance designer & illustrator. Chris has some amazing work which involves a lot of bold & bright colours particularly in his typography work.

Chris has many clients including Chronicle Publishing, Nike, Sims, Goodbyn, The Discovery Channel, Telerama, Akrobatik & many more. His work has been published in several books & publications.  Chris has also received many awards over the past 8 years & has managed to have his work in over 20 individual exhibitions.

After Chris had designed & shown 1000 illustrations, typography & graphic designs daily on his blog Monday to Friday, he had them all published in a book called '1000 days of Drawing.' Chris has also been involved in several exciting projects over the years.

Chris has many online shops to name a few Society6, Print Brigade, Etsy & Zazzle. You can find Chris on Facebook, Flickr & you can follow Chris on Twitter @chrispiascik

Chris is also one of our wonderful contributors on 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design' (the e-course) & has been a big inspiration to all of our students!

You can read more on the blog about the talented Chris by clicking here.

Enjoy :)

Hannah