How to power up your creativity with Make it in Design Co-founder Rachael Taylor

11/14/22 • 38 min

Rachael Taylor is an award-winning art director, creative mentor, and print and pattern designer and now author. She is best known for her quirky style, daring use of colour, and unique innovation. She regularly takes on design commissions for various companies and has created prints and patterns for almost every part of the marketplace. She is a trademarked brand with a number of licensed products worldwide.

Rachael is also a much-loved coach and creative mentor who is well-known for her friendly, honest, and motivational teaching style. As the co-founder of Make It In Design, she has developed a ground-breaking educational platform and taught more than 25,000 students across 100 countries.

Rachael has been featured in many print and online publications including House Beautiful, Red, Mollie Makes and Homestyle, and on ITV, BBC and Channel 4. She is also a member of the UK government’s Anti-Copying in Design Sector Council, and a regular speaker at design industry events.

This special interview is in celebration of Rachael's book, Power up your Creativity – available now! After so many conversations with our much-loved Make it in Design community, Rachael has developed a keen insight into what obstacles stand in the way of creative success for so many of us and has turned her guidance into a stunning book.

Episode includes:

· Where Rachael’s passion for design and colour began

· Discovering what resonates with you

· Creativity is about taking risks, breaking rules and having fun

· The value of teaching and passing on your experiences

· Dealing with adversity and how to make it positive

· How to deal with rejection when it happens

Episode includes:

· Where Rachael’s passion for design and colour began

· Discovering what resonates with you

· Creativity is about taking risks, breaking rules and having fun

· The value of teaching and passing on your experiences

· Dealing with adversity and how to make it positive

· How to deal with rejection when it happens

Previous Episode

S2 Ep7: Creating opportunities for designers to thrive with their own businesses with Alexander Wills

Alexander Wills is a digital textile printing expert. He is devoted to helping designers gain financial freedom, while doing what they love, through the Maake ecosystem. He works with 100’s of company’s daily from small brands to big names including Alexander McQueen, Dior, Burberry and BBC and his belief is ‘all designers should be treated with the same respect, no matter their status, as creativity is unique’.

After 15 years in textile printing, Alex and his wife Artemis were tired of seeing talented people left behind in their industry.

Massive minimums and complicated ordering processes made it impossible to run a profitable small or medium-sized business. Outsourcing abroad only presented unsustainable practices and lengthy wait times.

It was time to shake up the textile industry.

Fashion Formula (soon to be Maake) gives ordinary people the opportunity to bring their extraordinary visions to life.

A simple, uncomplicated ordering process. Made in London, so no more long lead times. No more large orders needed, no more waste, and no more broken promises and giving your business an edge.

Alex has had huge success since launching Fashion Formula which has expanded above and beyond the realms of fabric printing as they are just in the process of launching their brilliant NEW platform Maake.

Episode 7 includes:

Surrounding yourself with creativity and combining science and arts
Having the confidence to grow and develop your own business in align with your passions and beliefs
Redefining and making it so much easier for designers to delve into the world of printing and manufacturing
The importance of the customer experience
Carving out time to research and continuing to develop what your business has to offer
The importance of a good team and how to nurture them
Creating opportunities for designers to thrive in the industry