Episode 116 How to Spell SuiKim

On this episode of the Make and Design Podcast, Carina is joined by Etsy expert, coach, and her sister SuiKim Friedmann. You may know SuiKim as “Kim” because that’s the way she originally branded herself. With fun banter as only sisters can pull it off, Carina and SuiKim discuss the origins of their names and SuiKim overcoming the fear of having a name that is unique. Find out what the tipping point was for SuiKim in her decision to move from www.kimcrafts.com to www.suikim.com when it came to branding her business. 

You can find SuiKim’s work at www.suikim.com. Who gets their first name as a domain name? Awesome!

Find her on InstaGram at suikimfriedmann. 

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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY 

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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

Check out her most popular program, Design Bootcamp, here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

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