You've probably heard it a lot in the surface pattern design industry : collections are important. Be it on print on demand or when you plan on licensing your work, you have a better chance at appealing to a buyer if you have a collection of coordinated patterns they can chose from. That's where things can start feeling very daunting and if you are sitting in the corner scared to try, I hear you! I've been there and I stuck to making random patterns for YEARS without putting thought into...

Every year between December and January designers are scooping the upcoming trends and planning their portfolio strategy., I'm no different, I look at Cat Coq's trend report , the Pinterest trend report and have a look at WGSN on their Instagram handle to get a feel of what's trending, and of course I look at fashion designers' shows as well. This is this combination of sources that lead me to put together my new collection : Frogs in bloom . Cat predicted in her report that both frogs and...

It's been a while since my last blog post update, and after seeing good amount of views on Threads, and having posted about this topic on Quora as well, I think it is time to address the topic of SEO on PoD platform, specifically Redbubble since it's the only one I have data to share to support my claims. I'm sure you have heard or read it somewhere, at least once on your PoD journey "SEO is all you need to be found" or "The reason you have no sales is that your SEO is bad" and a few other...