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Episode 137 Why You Aren’t Getting What You Actually Need from the Free Stuff
Make and Design with Carina Gardner
English - May 02, 2022 08:00 - 11 minutes - 8.27 MB - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsDesign Arts Leisure Crafts crafter crafting design fabricdesign make maker silhouette Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Everyone loves free stuff and the internet is full of chances to get free stuff. But are the endless freebies available online really getting you what you need? On today’s episode of the Make + Design Podcast, Carina discusses the drawbacks of relying on free stuff and gives concrete examples of how investing in yourself (and an inexpensive course) will help you level up much more quickly.
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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/