Does posting on Instagram stresses you out? Do you think it just takes to much time to create content to post or do you feel like everyone else has these beautiful feeds and you just don’t know how to make your feed look as great? Then read on for my top 3 Instagram apps to use for creatives.

Colours are such an important part of design. And if you’ve ever heard that you need to find your own signature style to be successful as a designer it probably occur to you that colours are a huge part of a signature style. So how do you find your style in colours? And where do you even start? Read on for my personal tips and tricks on how to work with colours in pattern design.

Starting your own creative business and working from home is many peoples dream. Imagine being able to have control over your own time, decide for yourself when to get out of bed every morning AND how many hours you spend each day on work. What a dream! But how do you get stuff done when working from home? How can you work efficiently and productive when there’s so much that can distract you? Read on for my personal tips on how to be productive when you work from home.

Do you find it hard to be a beginner at something? Would you like to just be a pro straight away? To skip all of those 10 000 hours that everyone is talking about that you need to spend honing in on a skill to become good at something? Well here's a news flash for you - there’s not many creative skills that you can find in this world that you can just start at and be a pro straight away. In fact there’s probably NO creative skill like that.

If you eventually want to make money out of your artwork and start a creative business, you WILL get rejections now and then. But how to you stay motivated when you get rejections as a creative? And how do you keep yourself from just giving up on it all? Read on for my personal tips on how to handle rejection.

Im so happy to finally being able to share my new collaboration with When You Think of Home. So first let me tell you a bit about this amazing new project and then I’ll share the background story of the print. I’m honoured to be apart of this collective and to share my art print for this greater purpose.

After a long period of planning, prepping and some trial and error me and my husband Adrian have finally released our new product category in our Faber Co. shop for digital design assets - Mockups. I have had a crush on mockups ever since a started to create patterns a few years ago. It’s just something special with being able to visualise your patterns on products isn’t it? All of you pattern lovers out there probably can feel me on this one, am I right? I’ve myself have both…

A couple of days ago I published a new class on Skillshare where I teach how to sketch and draw vector based motifs in Adobe Fresco, link to class: https://skl.sh/30ZMQXf . Since then I’ve got a bunch of questions about my thoughts of Fresco and how I think that it compares to Adobes previous vector drawing app Adobe Draw. So in this blog post I’ll try to answer all of the questions that I’ve got and will give you my point of view on Adobes Fresco as a vector drawing app. 

I’ve got news for you! Do you know that I celebrated 1 year as a business owner recently? I started my business and life as a creative entrepreneur September 1st 2018. A lot can happen in a year and I’m so proud of what I’ve accomplished - I’ve debuted as a fabric designer with not only one but two fabric collections, I’ve published seven online classes and became a Skillshare Top Teacher (one of the top 1% of all teachers on the entire platform) and there’s ten times more lovely people who follow my work and creative life online then it was a year ago…

On a more personal note the biggest news is that I’ve gotten married, to Adrian - the love of my life. And as we wanted to have the same surname and I absolutely adore his, I’ve changed my name to Maja Faber (previously Rönnbäck). With the name change comes a great opportunity for some rebranding and redesign of my website and I’m so excited to finally release my new brand and website for you today.

I have some really exciting news to share - I recently became a Top Teacher on Skillshare, which means that I'm considered the top 1 percent of best teachers on the entire platform. I'm so honoured and proud and I really couldn't have done it without all of my amazing students who watch my classes, gives me such great feedback and lovely reviews. 

As a thank you I'm hosting a giveaway this summer where you can win 1 year of free premium membership on Skillshare. 

The Faber Co website is launched, www.faberdesign.co. It's a place where you can shop our products, learn new skills in our tutorials and check out how to use our Procreate brushes. To celebrate the launch we offer 50% DISCOUNT ON ALL OF OUR PRODUCTS.

I've published my 6th class on Skillshare! Learn how to design a pattern collection and streamline your workflow, using Adobe Draw and Illustrator in this new fully packed class. 

I've just published my new class where you'll learn everything that I know about colors in pattern design and I’m very happy to announce a special giveaway that me and my fellow pattern designer Kristina Hultkrantz are hosting together in connection with the launch of our newest classes on Skillshare.

I’m happy to announce that I just published my new Skillshare class “Make your own handmade notebook - With your design on the cover”. This is such a fun and crafty class that is perfect for you who make your own patterns or illustrations and want to try them out on a real product. On top of my excitement of launching this new class I’m even more excited and happy to give you the chance to win 1 YEAR OF FREE PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP ON SKILLSHARE.

Today is the LAUNCH of a new adventure - Faber Co. As a creative couple with a passion for design, me and my fiancé, Adrian Faber, recently came up with the idea to start Faber Co. together. In this new business of ours we combine our technical skills with our knowledge and experience in design and art to create carefully selected, high quality design assets to use in your artwork.

Today I was featured at Society6 blog with my art print ‘Eye See You’! Read the blogpost here: https://blog.society6.com/six-pack-12-10-18/