Sweet S6 and a free shipping promo

My Society6 shop opened officially on June 16th, 2013 and so far I have had over 20 prints selected for the Society6 store, and 8 sales and counting...  Okay, okay, I made like 20$, but considering I am a NEWB at this, I think it's not bad at all!  I love that I can just upload anything, no need to make it a repeat pattern or anything, like on Spoonflower.  Not that I mind, it's just that creating without boundaries is more liberating!!

A selection of my work from Society6

My most popular designs have been the aqua bird silhouettes and the midsummer pattern in MINT, which is one of my personal faves ;)  I ordered the 'natural graffitti' pillow for my house, as well as the aqua birds...  Can't wait to get them and check out the quality, packaging, colours...etc.

 'Natural Graffiti' pillow on Society6 by MAJA Studio

There is a new promotion for Free Shipping until JULY 14th, 2013.  You must click on this link in order to redeem it: http://society6.com/MAJAstudio?promo=32d77f

Happy shopping :)

Society6

All this surface design has inevitably led to me spending countless hours online searching for places to share and mingle with other designers.  I have been busy uploading work onto my new Society6 shop.  To me, there is nothing more exciting than seeing something I made on a product or in somebody's home.  I like STUFF, which I think is a good thing when you create for consumers!

Anyway, I was pretty happy to see a sale after just 2 days of my store opening!  How exciting!  Hopefully more will come...  I know this is a brand new venture for me, and I need to be making MORE and MORE designs if I want a chance to make it in the business, but I feel like this is for me.  

CHEERS to a new adventure!

v o t e s !

Well the time has come to vote!  I am seeing for the first time my collection printed on actual fabric.  While I must say I am very pleased with the colour, I am not so sure about the scale of my patterns...  I wish I had scaled down the design of the bottom-middle design, I feel that everything is a bit large for this kind of close-up photography.  I imagined my designs on upholstered pieces more than on quilts, thus the scale, but for the purpose of this contest, I wish I had forseen they way they would be presented...  Alas, what is done is done! Who knows... I might be pleasantly surprised by winning!  One can dream... ;)

Vote here

My collection Fabric8 Genius

the eight final collections

Congratulations to the seven other designers, your collections are looking gooooood!

The Spoonflower blog is posting designer profiles for the 8 finalists in the Fabric8 contest.  Mine is up now, check it out!

Spoonflower

I am having a splendid adventure on the website Spoonflower these days...  A few weeks back I entered their weekly design contest on the theme GEEK CHIC and presented this design.  I made it to the semi-finals (top 100) and after the voting round, I was in the top 8 finalists!!

mathematical tension, my original design for the competition

I have been creating new coordinating designs for the final round for a little over two weeks now.  I am pretty happy with my overall collection, considering I am rather new at this!  My background as a commercial artist is really coming in handy in terms of colouration and scale and overall composition.  Turns out I can manage pretty good with this digital stuff!!  These were all done using Photoshop CS6 and my Wacom tablet.  The voting round begins June 6th (this thursday!!)  

dots & numbers coordinating fabric, Fabric8 Geek Chic collection

problems to solve coordinating fabric, Fabric8 Geek Chic collection

know your angles coordinating fabric, Fabric8 Geek Chic collection

Here are some of the other designs I made:  Some of them will be available for purchase at Spoonflower once the contest is over:

The winner of this contest will score a licensing contract with Robert Kaufman fabrics, a 1000$ advance on royalties and a huge Wacom tablet.  NOT BAD ;)  Last year's winner Andie Hanna seems to be doing pretty well, her collection launched this spring and looks fantastic!

My fingers are crossed xxxxx

new beginnings

This blog had turned into a pseudo-website, as I was a little frightened by the task of designing a real website to showcase my work in a professional, cleaner way.  I can proudly say I have tackled that task, and www.MAJAstudio.ca was born!  This blog can now continue being a blog, and I have one more thing checked off my to-do list :)

Here are some screen shots from the new website:

Visit it now! www.majastudio.ca