Photography plays a huge part in creating and promoting your brand and your business. With good photography you take charge: showing and presenting your work in the best possible way, directing how people will perceive it. In this one-hour, practical and very visual webinar award-winning professional photographer Jackie King will show you how to identify [...] Read more »
Exclusive Design Trust webinar: ‘Money & Emotions: how feelings & beliefs about money affect the way you do business’ with Pete Mosley
How do you feel about money? Be honest … Do you feel poor or rich? When do you feel particularly poor or rich? Are you comfortable with money, and talk at ease about your income, pricing your work, your hourly rate? Or do you find it hard to put a value on your work, to [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Challenge March 2013: Are you living your values?
Was the February Challenge a real challenge for you? It took a little while before the first participant responded, and far less people joined than in January… That’s a shame, as from the comments the ones who did participate got a lot out of doing the February exercise. And that’s what’s really what counts for [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Challenge February 2013: Your why’s? & your core values
Wow! The response to The Design Trust Challenge has been so wonderful. So many creatives participating and sharing, or writing about it on their own blog. Others are doing the exercises but aren’t sharing yet … Don’t be shy, we would love to hear from you too! There are some really truly personal and inspiring [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Challenge January 2013: What is ‘your word’ for the year?
Wow, I have been really overwhelmed by how many people signed up for The Design Trust Challenge straight away! And so much great feedback already. Absolutely wonderful! Firstly a big congratulations to everybody who ‘signed up’. You know, it is so easy to just read this and other business advice, and think ‘yeah, that’s useful’ [...] Read more »
Exclusive Design Trust Dialogue: Silversmith Sidsel Dorph-Jensen on creativity and business
Sidsel Dorph-Jensen is a silver smith and creative business coach, who lives with her family in Aarhus, Denmark. She has a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London and before that a Bachelor’s degree from Konstfack University in Stockholm. Her work is exhibited in Danish and international museums and private collections. You [...] Read more »
Book review: Batch by Andrew Tanner: get the story behind some of the most successful designers’ businesses
Batch is a great book for lovers of design and craft – from designers and makers, to collectors and retailers. Batch; Craft, Design and Product: The Work of the Designer Maker is introduced as a ‘glamorous coffee table book’. It is indeed a beautifully produced book with its hard cover, and great large and colourful [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Guide to Start & Run a Successful Craft Business
I wrote this guide to help creative people get clarity and direction in how to start and run their own small craft business. It gives lots of practical advice and information, but also looks at the big picture. Setting up as a freelancer or sole trader can be really daunting. There are so many things [...] Read more »
How to boost your creative thinking for your business
For most creative people coming up with new ideas, being innovative or ‘think outside the box’ is pretty easy, it’s part of their DNA! Often they struggle with too many ideas, rather than too few! Often I am rather surprised how conventional many creative businesses are when it comes to doing their business planning or [...] Read more »
How to start or improve your craft or design blog: The Design Trust’s personal journey and favourite blogging resources
Many designers and especially crafters want to start a blog. Why? To showcase your latest work and portfolio, to get new clients or new work. To share your inspiration and images with your friends, colleagues, (potential) clients. To be creative online, tell stories, develop ideas in the process and share with others. To promote yourself, [...] Read more »