Episode 129 3 Powerful Design Strategies You Don’t Want to Miss

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s episode of the Make + Design Podcast, Carina talks about three powerful design strategies that will help keep you motivated and leveling up. These are strategies that will help you get paid for your design work. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strategy one: you need to work smart and hard. You need to be going out of your way to work smart. As you do, you will get better at design to the point that design work can become relaxing and happy even. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strategy two: Repurpose EVERYTHING. If you draw something and use it in one medium, use it in all the mediums! Carina gives us some great examples of how to do this and lets us know that something that is repurposed needs to be transformed and formatted correctly across the mediums. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strategy three: Do the math. What does Carina mean by this? She explains that calculating your work rate and how many designs you can do per day will allow you to calculate how many designs you will be able to release in a year. The more content you create, the more you will earn. If you don’t “do the math” then you may fall into the trap of not producing enough to win as a designer. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">__________</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here:</span> <a href= "http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">__________</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About Carina Gardner:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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