Make and Design with Carina Gardner

By: Carina Gardner
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  • Carina Gardner unravels the everyday joys and dilemmas of design, making, and business. This inside scoop into fabric design, paper design, die cut design, and crafting will help bring more creativity and joy in your life. Carina Gardner has a Ph.D. in Design and was the Creative Director of Cartabella Paper Co. and MiniLou. She has designed everything from dishware to bracelets under her brand. She currently designs fabric and die cutting files while teaching other designers how to create meaningful design work while making a residual income online.

    © 2024 Make and Design with Carina Gardner
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Episodes
  • Episode 478 Your Vision, Not Somebody Else’s Vision
    Oct 7 2024

    Carina talks about being a visionary for your company. She talks about Walt Disney’s vision and how you too can create a vision for yourself that is strong and specific.



    Episode 478 Your Vision, Not Somebody Else’s Vision

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    Have you ever wondered what makes art sell? In her new book, Make Art that Sells!, Carina shares how to think like a customer and create art that people want to buy. She offers practical tips on market trends, pricing, and self-promotion. By understanding what buyers are looking for, you can make your art more appealing and boost your sales. Click below to learn more


    https://www.designsuitecourses.com/makeartthatsells

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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
    Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/


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    9 mins
  • Episode 477 The Lies I See on Social Media…It’s a Game of WereWolf
    Oct 2 2024

    Carina talks about some of the “untruths” she sees on social media and how a game of werewolf tells us most about the one thing most of us are missing when we enter the design business world.


    Episode 477 The Lies I See on Social Media…It’s a Game of WereWolf

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    Have you ever wondered what makes art sell? In her new book, Make Art that Sells!, Carina shares how to think like a customer and create art that people want to buy. She offers practical tips on market trends, pricing, and self-promotion. By understanding what buyers are looking for, you can make your art more appealing and boost your sales. Click below to learn more


    https://www.designsuitecourses.com/makeartthatsells

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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
    Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/


    Calling all my budding creatives and designers - I have a new workshop - Start Your Design Journey which is our new Design Bootcamp intensive. This new workshop is a single day, three hours long and it combines everything I teach in a week into a single day plus a few new things. You can find out when the next session is by going to designsuitecourses.com/journey.

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    21 mins
  • Episode 476 Design Suite Maker Conference with Brenna Powell, Tracey Rinaldo, and Kim Thomas
    Sep 30 2024

    Carina talks with Brenna Powell, Tracey Rinaldo, Kim Thomas in a live panel for the Design Suite Maker Conference about their design businesses, shops, and why they decided to start their own design businesses.

    Get the All Access Pass to this conference here: https://www.designsuitecourses.com/design-suite-maker-conference-all-access-pass-4

    Join a Design Bootcamp to learn more about Design Suite here: www.designsuitecourses.com.designbootcamp

    Learn more about the University of Arts & Design at www.uad.education

    Episode 476 Design Suite Maker Conference with Brenna Powell, Tracey Rinaldo, and Kim Thomas
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    Have you ever wondered what makes art sell? In her new book, Make Art that Sells!, Carina shares how to think like a customer and create art that people want to buy. She offers practical tips on market trends, pricing, and self-promotion. By understanding what buyers are looking for, you can make your art more appealing and boost your sales. Click below to learn more

    https://www.designsuitecourses.com/makeartthatsells
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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
    Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/


    Calling all my budding creatives and designers - I have a new workshop - Start Your Design Journey which is our new Design Bootcamp intensive. This new workshop is a single day, three hours long and it combines everything I teach in a week into a single day plus a few new things. You can find out when the next session is by going to designsuitecourses.com/journey.

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    31 mins

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Great Podcast!

Carina and guest are very informative and easy to understand. I love to listen to her podcast while I am working on my own projects! Keep a notebook close by for jotting down tips and useful information she gives.

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