Bird recap video: https://studio.youtube.com/video/oil8Lwjo1Hw/edit

Free workshop (Draw with Genna): January 13–15
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Join me for 75 Art 2025 with Genna Blackburn
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Cornell Merlin App: merlin.allaboutbirds.org

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Elementor: https://bit.ly/elementordiane

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Courage: New Year of Facing Fears & What to expect in 2025 on the podcast this year.
Episode 493

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Courage: New Year of Facing Fears

Connect with Richard
website: https://longhidesign.com/
shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/longhidesignco
instagram: https://instagram.com/longhidesign @longhidesign

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Product Design Defined with Richard Longhi

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http://www.chambers-design.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chambersdesign/
ann.ford@chambers-design.com

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Healing Through Art-Making with Ann Ford

This week I have faced the hurdles. Taken time to study, try, and overcome. I've won this week, because I have completed things that I have not even attempted because I thought it would take so long to complete. I have a new philosophy I am still getting used to. I am going to make time to figure it out. I am going to not wait because I am scared. 

Hope this episode gives you some encouragement and hope. Also I recorded about six hours of making and squashed it into 28 min. I know not everyone is a pattern designer so I sped up some parts. But think about your process, are there ways you could get faster or work smarter?

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Links for Episode 494 the hurdle
Immersion with Bonnie Christine: https://www.bonniechristine.com/

Avery the Etsy artist: https://www.etsy.com/shop/aisforavery

Helen Bradley who reminded quickly of how to set up tiles for spoonflower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn3B6w8IKsQ

My spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/dianegibbs

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HURDLES: Pushing Through: Making & Uploading the first patterns

Connect with Gabriella: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriellafreda/

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Product Design Defined with Gabriella Freda

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Website: https://kayhan.me 
Twitter/X: https://x.com/vanTurk
Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/kayhan 
CodePen: https://codepen.io/kayhan/pens/public

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Product Design Defined with Kayhan Atamyildiz

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Analyze Fabric & Teacup Process

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Wild Routed: https://wildrouted.com
Rootlebox: https://rootlebox.com

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The Product Designer Series with Diana Ingles

This has been a long time coming. New habits, new obstacles. I tried shooting with two cameras and it was pretty much an epic fail. Not so much in the shooting, although that could have been better but mainly in the editing.

I should have done a lot of things differently. SHOULD, SHOULD, SHOULD.

So instead I will share what I learned. I need to ask myself what is most important: keeping to a schedule or trying something new. I guess here we saw the fail of keeping to a schedule.

This means when I am trying something new I need to practice on a short something instead of content with three hours. YIKES.

Ok lesson learned.

About the Cucumber Making Episode 496B

This is a new podcast series called: In Search of a Formula for Making Patterns. 

Find it at https://www.spoonflower.com/en/collections/1348617-whimsical-boho-garden-by-garabateo
Find Mercedes Cortés at: https://www.garabateo.com
On instagram at: www.instagram.com/garabateoprints/
On Spoonflower at: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/garabateo

Find full show notes at: https://creativesignite.com/in-search-of-a-formula-for-making-patterns-analyzing-mercedes-cortes-award-winning-pattern/

I am diane gibbs, a budding surface pattern designer and host of the Creatives Ignite Podcast. As I am learning Surface Pattern Design, I've some encountered some hurdles. Because of these challenges, I want to analyze many successful surface pattern designers, what attracts me to their work, and analyze their collections and patterns to see if I can create the formula I've been needing so that the hero pattern stops eluding me.

In this series, I am digging into what makes their collections successful and try to reverse-engineer their collections, mini-collections, and specifically how they construct their hero patterns. 

This week I am analyzing designer, Mercedes Cortés' Whimsical Boho Garden Mini Collection which was an award-winner in one of Spoonflower's bi-monthly challenges. 

I do not personally know Mercedes but am a fan of her work and love that she has different styles. I am trying to keep these analyses under ten minutes and take you along as I look at some of my favorite surface pattern designers.

Find it at https://www.spoonflower.com/en/collections/1348617-whimsical-boho-garden-by-garabateo



In Search of a Formula for Making Patterns: Analyzing Mercedes Cortés Award-Winning Pattern

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