Power Up Your Creativity: Ignite Your Creative Spark - Develop a Productive Practice - Set Goals and Achieve Your Dreams
- 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?
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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
"A ray of sunshine! That's what Power Up Your Creativity is. A colorful and visual book full of creative tips, personal experiences great pics to get you unstuck again. Perfect for these times."--Patricia van den Akker, The Design Trust
"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
