Surface Pattern Design Consulting
Creative guidance for your surface pattern business
You have the artwork. What comes next? At The Artwerks Design Studio, we help surface pattern designers connect their creative practice with the business of selling and licensing their work. Whether you’re exploring your first collection or looking for a clearer direction, our consulting offers practical guidance for your next steps.
From refining your portfolio to exploring products and preparing to approach potential clients, we’ll help you focus on the questions that matter to your business. Our approach brings together creative development and business planning, with room to discuss your goals, challenges, and ideas.
Not sure where to start? We can help you identify your priorities and focus on the areas most relevant to your business.
Build your brand and find your audience
Bring your portfolio, brand story, and marketing into focus. We can explore market research, identify potential customers, and discuss ways to share your work through social media, your own website, trade shows, and various other channels.
Explore products and plan your business
We can help you to consider how your artwork can translate to products through manufacturing or utilizing print-on-demand. We can also work through pricing approaches, client negotiations, invoicing, inventory, and the everyday systems that help keep your business organized.
Develop your patterns and collections
Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop on your computer and/or Procreate on iPad to turn original artwork into seamless repeating patterns. Explore workflows for developing your designs and preparing them for production of a wide range of product types.
Prepare to share and license your work
Build a portfolio, create product mockups, and plan how to approach potential licensing clients. We can discuss pitching your work, working with an art agent, and exhibiting at trade shows, along with general copyright and licensing concepts and questions to take to a qualified legal professional.
Based in the Greater Houston area? Contact us to ask about in-person consulting.
Tell us about your design business, your goals, and the support you’re looking for. Contact us to discuss consulting options, availability, and pricing.