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Attention all creatives: learn how to power up your creativity!
If you're longing to take your vision, energy, and output to the next level, this book is the resource you need to make it happen. Author Rachael Taylor-successful artist, pattern designer, entrepreneur, and cofounder of the Make It In Design online education platform-shares creative motivation and guidance that will help you achieve your goals and thrive.
- Identify how to begin, find and sustain inspiration, and cultivate creative courage
- Clarify your vision and consider how you need to evolve
- Stay motivated and establish creative longevity
- Shift gears to set sights on your next goal as you reach each destination
- Create with intention and acknowledge-and embrace-your creative power
Whether you're just starting out on your creative path, or you're looking to fruitfully channel your creative practice toward a career or side hustle,
Power Up Your Creativity offers
practical advice and support for upping your creative game and achieving your dreams. So, what are you waiting for?
List of contents
Introduction
How to use this book
1 Begin
How do I identify where to begin?
2 Inspiration
How do I become and stay inspired?
3 Courage
What do I need to be creatively courageous?
4 Clarity
How do I clarify my vision?
5 Evolve
Do I need to evolve?
6 Motivation
How do I stay motivated?
7 Create
How do I create with intention?
8 Longevity
How can I achieve creative longevity?
9 Destination
I've reached my destination. What now?
10 Power
How do I know-and own-my power?
Afterword
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
About the author
Rachael Taylor is an award-winning art director, creative mentor, and print and pattern designer. She is most known for her quirky style, daring use of color, and unique innovation. She regularly takes on design commissions for various companies and has created prints and patterns for almost every area in the marketplace. She is also a trademarked brand with a number of licensed products worldwide.
She is a much-loved creative mentor and is often told that her teaching style is infectious, friendly, honest, informative, and motivational. Rachael approaches her students and clients with a sense of relatability and her services are often described as “talking to an old friend who just has the answers.”
As cofounder of Make It In Design, Rachael has developed a groundbreaking educational online platform and taught more than 25,000 students across 100 countries.
Rachael is regularly featured in the media, from biographic pieces to her own articles sharing design advice. Highlights include A House Beautiful Home Business, ITV, Channel 4, BBC, Print and Pattern Geometric, Red, Where Women Create, Uppercase, Mollie Makes, and Homestyle, to name a few. She is also a member of the UK government’s Anti-Copying in Design Sector Council.
You will also find Rachael regularly speaking at design industry events and she adores creative writing. You can connect with Rachael at:
Instagram: @rachaeltaylor_ @rachaeltstudio @makeitindesign
Twitter: @rachael_taylor_ @RachaelTStudio @makeitindesign.com
Facebook: /rachaeltaylordesigns and /makeitindesign
Website: rachaeltaylordesigns.com and makeitindesign.com
Summary
Written by designer and creative educator Rachael Taylor, Power Up Your Creativity is a guide to cultivating a positive and productive creative path, from how to develop creativity, to building a productive practice, to achieving success (and defining on your own terms what that means/looks like).
Report
"Power Up Your Creativity is an inspirational map, of sorts, written for each of us, by one of us, who has navigated her way through life, career, and being a creative herself. Rachael shares her kaleidoscope of experiences so we each may become confident and skillful guides of our own extraordinary and turbulent journeys through our lives as creatives." Jo Packham, Editor-in-Chief of Where Women Create
