
Commercial color and business skills for surface pattern designers, taught by Telva Chase.

Color psychology and emotional impact, and how your color choices make a difference in the marketplace. If you aren't licensed yet, your colors may be part of the reason.
6-hour course
Value $19
Black Friday Price $12
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Color in commercial design isn't just theory, it's profit. This six-week deep dive teaches color as a business decision, using the Trend Rhythm™, Trend Dynamics™, and Trend Curator™ frameworks. The Color Mastery Mini is included at the start.
6 week course + downloads
Value $497
Black Friday Price $297
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Email Marketing Course
A seven-video course for surface pattern designers. Build a list you own. Send emails people are glad to get. This walks you through every step: setting up the right way, growing a list of the right people, writing emails that sound like you, and inviting work without feeling pushy. Self-paced.
Workbook download included.
Value $47
Black Friday Price $27
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Found, Not Followed Course
A six-video course for surface pattern designers. Let me show you how to stay visible through search and direct pitching: your website, Pinterest, Spoonflower, and a research workflow that reaches the right person at the right brand. Self-paced.
Includes workbook download.
Value $47
Black Friday Price $27
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Surface Pattern Architecture Course - Fluency in Structure and Style
Know why a pattern works, and how to make yours work too. This is a two-part video course on the structures and styles behind every repeat pattern, for designers who want to choose with confidence instead of guessing.
PART 1 STRUCTURE
24 videos, about 5 hours of video.
The architecture underneath every pattern. Workbook download.
PART 2 STYLE
32 videos: 31 on the named traditions buyers ask for in briefs, then the capstone.
Every style video follows the same 6 parts: where style comes from, what it is made of, how it is built, how it has changed, what the tradition decides for you and what it leaves open, and an assignment. Workbook download.
BOTH PARTS TOGETHER
56 VIDEOS. BOTH WORKBOOKS
PART 1 STRUCTURE Value $297
Black Friday Price $197
PART 2 STYLE Value $397
Black Friday Price $297
BOTH PARTS TOGETHER Value $657
Black Friday Price $457
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PROSPERITY PATHWAY™ launches BLACK FRIDAY, November 27 at a discount.
A five-part course with over 200 hours of video and exercises that takes surface pattern designers from making patterns to running a working design business.
Available individually or in a bundle. Buy all five parts and receive one year of TAPESTRY LIVE.
Value $997
Black Friday Price $577

The Licensing Roadmap. Every month you'll know exactly what to create for licensing and when to pitch it. Your design focus tells you what manufacturers are looking for. Your pitch calendar tells you who to contact and when.

Monthly design focus for POD platforms plus an upload schedule that keeps you consistent without burning you out. You'll know what to create, where to upload it, and when to do it for maximum visibility.

The Tool Tips Newsletter covers design software, business apps, hardware, along with a quick-win challenge and a download.

Your Industry Digest. Industry news, designer spotlight, job postings, and competitions & opportunities - everything happening in the surface pattern design world, curated and delivered to your inbox. Monthly inspiration picks and learning resources chosen specifically for SPD at every stage of their growth.

The one that might make you snort, because not everything in this industry is perfectly aligned. Telva's fourth & fifth newsletter of the month is where the rulebook takes a coffee break. If you have ever wanted to hear what a surface pattern design educator really thinks about trends, clients, creative blocks, and the general chaos of running an art business, this is your newsletter. Straight talk, crooked humor, zero apology
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