Power Up Your Creativity: Ignite Your Creative Spark - Develop a Productive Practice - Set Goals and Achieve Your Dreams

Description

In Power Up Your Creativity, author Rachael Taylor-successful artist and pattern designer and the co-founder of the Make It in Design creative education platform-shares motivation and guidance for creatives who want to take their vision, energy, and output to the next level, no matter what their starting point. The book covers how to get started, find and sustain inspiration, and cultivate creative courage; clarify one's vision and consider how and when to evolve; stay motivated and establish creative longevity; shift gears to set sights on the next goal as each one is reached; and create with intention and acknowledge-and embrace-one's creative power. Power Up Your Creativity offers practical advice and support for anyone who wants to supercharge their creative game and achieve their creative goals and dreams, whether they're just starting out on a creative path or looking to fruitfully channel their creative practice toward a career or side hustle.

Rachael Taylor is a renowned creativepreneur who 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, and is also a trademarked brand with a number of licensed ranges worldwide. Rachael is a much-loved creative mentor who is often told that her style is infectious, friendly, honest, informative, and motivational. She approaches her students and clients with a sense of relatability, and her services are often described as "talking to an old friend who has the answers." As co-founder and lead course instructor of Make It In Design, Rachael has developed an online educational platform, delivering many comprehensive design courses that have reached over 25,000 individual students across 100 countries. She also offers a one-to-one online Creative Coaching service through her studio and has been fortunate enough to mentor a number of inspiring designers from all around the globe. You can also find her regularly featured in the media, from biographic pieces to her own articles sharing design advice. To learn more about Rachael and Make It In Design, visit rachaeltaylordesigns.com, makeitindesign.com, or @makeitindesign on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

"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 * "This book details the highs and the lows, and how to push through those creative challenges, and reminds you that you're not alone! Rachael understands how tricky being a creative can be-because she is one of us!" -- Jay Blades, MBE, TV Presenter, Eco-Designer, and Social Enterpriser "No syllable is wasted in Rachael's valuable, clear guide - it's resource heavy, jargon light, and brimming with ideas to ignite all creative souls." -- Dids Macdonald, OBE Chief Executive - Anti Copying in Design (ACID) "This is a brilliant book and one that all creatives, regardless of their level, can certainly take influence and encouragement from." -- Kieron Lewis, Designer, Adobe Creative Cloud Host, and CreativePro Week Speaker "Rachael's style is personal and warm. It feels like she is speaking directly across the kitchen table to the reader, while you enjoy some coffee or tea together. If you're looking for some direction or inspiration, you will find it here." * COLOR Magazine *