Design shouldn’t be magical and easy all the time. If it was, everybody would already be doing it! Instead it is the designers who role up their sleeves and get down into the hard work and strategies that make things really happen.

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Episode 273 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why Design Should Not Be All Lollipops and Rainbows

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Learn to take advice from those you are modeling your design career after, not those who do not! Learn more about asking less of those who aren’t designers and more from those who are profitable the way you want to be profitable!

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Episode 272 on the Make and Design Podcast: Stop Taking Bad Advice

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Carina’s new book goes through several models meant to help aspiring designers see where they can improve so that they can become profitable. Carina’s Design Process Model will help you see if you are making it through all the steps of design.

Get the new book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 269 on the Make and Design Podcast: Learn About the Design Process Model

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Carina already announced her new book, but she has another big announcement! In just another month you will see a new series of videos hitting her youtube channel that you will not want to miss. It includes new collections from her in a new format. Learn more in today’s episode!

Purchase the book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Subscribe to Carina’s YouTube channel so you get the first episode of the new series: www.youtube.com/carinagardner

Episode 268 on the Make and Design Podcast: Another Big 2023 Announcement

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Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/freetraining

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Carina sees lots of ways that designers don’t even realize they are losing money. Learn 3 ways she sees designers losing money and time in today’s episode.

Episode 259 on the Make and Design Podcast: 3 Ways to Lose Money as a Designer

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Designers go through evolutions just like any other career. Learn more about the journey of a designer in today’s episode.

Episode 258 on the Make and Design Podcast: The Evolution of a Designer

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

What we do today can be a blessing to our future selves. Learn more about things you can do today that will make your future brighter as a designer.

Episode 257 on the Make and Design Podcast: Gifts to Future Me

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/