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!

PaperCrafter Magazine / / Two-page feature!

We are honoured to have received a lovely two page feature in 'PaperCrafter' magazine! The feature follows a day our studio & showcases some our illustrative cards, our brand new colourful wedding & party decorations & our new limited cushion collection. Find out more about PaperCrafter magazine on their website.

(A special thank you goes to to our fab product photographers navyblur & our gorgeous model Emma).

MOYO / / 1 Million Readers!

We are so excited to share the news that our free design magazine MOYO has been viewed by over 1 MILLION people! As we are busy working behind the scenes on our anniversary issue (due out in late August), we just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has helped make MOYO - the world's first magazine dedicated to surface pattern design - such a roaring success! We look forward to bringing you more inspiration, business advice and opportunities to showcase your design work over the coming months. In the meantime, if you have missed any of our previous issues, check them out here:

 

Issue 1

Issue 2

Issue 3: The Fabric Issue!

Issue 4: The Paper Issue!

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 new series (starting on August 19th 2013) Register here. Also, don’t miss out on our next run of Module 2 ‘Creating Your Professional identity’ which is running 19th August 2013! Brought to you by Rachael Taylor and Beth Kempton.

Rachael on Twitter: @rachtdesign Beth on Twitter: @DoWhatYouLoveXx

You can also read some magic words from some our past students who have gone on to achieve some amazing things!

Feature in Mollie Makes Magazine!

We are very excited to share that we have been featured in Issue 25 of 'Mollie Makes' Magazine! Several of our designs featured in the 'Designer Focus' section of the magazine, including our Signature Tea Towel Set, DENY Designs Textured Honesty Throw Pillow, DENY Designs Fun Floral Duvet Set & our Shapes & Squares wallpaper with Wallpaper Republic. The lovely magazine said of our designs:

"Leeds - based designer Rachael Taylor creates energising homewards from her bold, illustrated prints (...) If zingy florals or bold abstract shapes rock your style, she's your gal."

"Rachael can design awesome prints with her eyes closed. Literally."

The magazine is a great read & so beautifully designed, we couldn't be more chuffed to be featured! Below you can see larger images of the designs given the spotlight. Our designs are used across a diverse range of products, visit our shop to find more colourful items!

You can subscribe to Mollie Makes or buy the magazine here. Also check out their gorgeous website or follow them on Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest.

Signature Tea Towel Set - Also available in aprons!

Textured Honesty Throw Pillow - Also available in aprons & tea towels!

Fun Floral Duvet Set - Also available on Cards!

Shapes & Squares Wallpaper - Also available in other colourways!

Magazine features

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you had a lovely weekend!

Today I wanted to share with you a selection of snapshots showcasing some of the magazine features that I was lucky enough to receive.

Four festive patterns & four floral based patterns were shown in both the Nov (2012) & Jan (2013) issues. A huge thank you goes to 'Cardmaking & Papercraft' magazine for the generous feature.

Print & Pattern Design Scholarship Winners Announced!

The standard of entries for our second Print & Pattern Design Scholarship was so high that we decided to give away TWO full scholarships, each worth nearly $1000. And the winners are... GAVIN RUTHERFORD and GENINE DELAHAYE (Check out their work in Issue 3 of MOYO!)

Congratulations both of you! We will be in touch with details of your prize - a place on all three modules of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design. We cannot wait to see what you create, and watch how the course helps you take your careers to the next level. Huge thanks to Marie Perkins of Print & Pattern for supporting this scholarship and finalising our winners!

MOYO Magazine Issue 3 is here!

Our third (and biggest ever) issue of MOYO Magazine. Issue 3 is out now! You can see it here. It includes:

• Amy Butler on the business of design
• Talking fashion and fabric with Josephine Kimberling
• Behind the scenes at the Home Show 2013
• A BRAND NEW DIY column from Lil Blue Boo
• Announcement of the winner of our Print & Pattern Scholarship
• ...and much more!

Please help us spread the word about this free magazine by sharing it on Facebook and Tweeting about it (@surfacepatternd #moyomagazine). Please also feel free to blog about it or share it in your newsletter and inspire even more people to dive into the exciting world of surface pattern design!

Get your free copy HERE!

Easy Living feature

With the run up to Home, London we were super hectic in the studio & we forgot to mention some of the lovely press received recently. We were lucky enough to feature on leading design blogs, have work showcased in glossy magazines along with finding out that we are published in two brand new design books! (More on that to come soon).

Here's a snippet of our wallpaper feature from the kind people over at Easy Living (you can view the full feature here). We were thrilled that they selected two of our favourite designs 'Organic Origin' & 'Ghost Leaves'.

"If you're a fan of the bold designs of Orla Kiely or quirky patterns and illustrations from Donna Wilson, then you'll love Rachael Taylor. The surface pattern designer and textile artist is known for her colourful, mood enhancing prints, from paisley designs with a twist to wacky free-drawn florals. There are all manner of gorgeous products, from kitchen accessories to duvet covers to iPad cases, but we're huge fans of her wallpaper - unique, striking and the perfect paper for creating a gorgeous feature wall" (December, 2012).

If you are interested in any of the wallpaper designs featured you can view them in our shop here.

Country Homes & Interiors Feature

We were recently contacted by the lovely Tamara from Country Homes & Interiors magazine as she spotted our collections at Home, London. We are very grateful to receive this kind feature.

To read the full post click here.

Monica Lee - Smart Creative Women

Monica Lee is an artist & textile designer who runs a web show in which she interviews creative women to find out more about how they keep their business successful yet creative. She likes to "hear stories" & "spread stories". Her hope "is for you to be able to hear how women today are carving our a place for themselves using their very best resource, their creativity and realise that you can do it aswell!" Monica also recently interviewed Rachael & Beth (who work together on the e-course) & you can read their interviews by clicking on the links.

Monica is now a member of our fantastic 'MOYO' team & you can read her fantastic 'Selling Salon' article which gives you advice on how to sell your work. 

You can visit Monica on her website, blog or on the Smart Creative Women website. Enjoy, love Kelly.