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Turning Your Creative Talent into a Profitable and Lasting Business
A sustainable creative business is your creativity packaged into something people can reliably buy. It combines a clear audience definition, focused service offerings, and simple business fundamentals so income isn't a mystery.
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Color Theory; How Well Do You Know Your Colors?
Color is fundamental in any good design. In the right hands, it can be an incredibly powerful tool. Color can change the way viewers feel...
Mar 22, 20223 min read
5 Must-have Skills of Successful Designers; IFD Designer Spotlight: Briana Jacobs explains
For designer Briana Jacobs, the road to a career in fashion started at prom. When Jacobs designed and sewed her own prom dress, the...
Mar 22, 20228 min read
IFD Nominated for Portland Fashion and Style Award!
January 2020 The exciting news of who made it to the final four in each category was announced on August 10th at Mercedes Benz of...
Mar 20, 20221 min read
3-Steps of Mind Mapping for Successful Design Thinking
Do you use a mind map in your design brainstorming? A mind map is "thinking out loud"—the ability to visualize how ideas are connected....
Mar 20, 20224 min read
Future Frontiers: Crossing the Boundaries of Innovation & Design.
January 10th 2020 Missed the event? No worries! A live video recording is now available! Hello There! We have been basking in the after...
Mar 17, 20222 min read
IFD Designer Spotlight: Mingaile Simenatie; AKA Soap Stealer!
Photo by Tom Lupton IFD: First of all, what is Soap Stealer? I was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania and moved to the USA 6 years ago...
Mar 17, 20223 min read
VOOR 3D Unveils VR Showroom
May 2020 Happy Friday Everyone- Here at IFD we are thinking of you during this unprecedented and unpredictable time. Todays read is about...
Mar 17, 20223 min read
How does being limited lead to great designs? IFD Spotlight; Camila X Castillo
We caught up with Camila Castillo, a FashioNXT UpNXT Emerging Designer- Here we capture her backstage before her collection hits the...
Mar 17, 20229 min read
How did a Shaman influence a new fabric invention? In the Spotlight: NDSU Grad Mariah Billadeau
Dear Friends, I hope you are staying healthy as Covid-19 is sweeping the world. We've been quarantined for 3 weeks now and I am amazed...
Mar 17, 202211 min read
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