Get the complete guide to building a surface design business.

Doors open as soon as you sign up. You get access to all of the modules upon registration and can access the business and design course 24/7 via mobile or desktop.

It’s easy. Once you’ve been through the shopping cart process, you’ll have instant access to your business and design course via an email confirmation. Simply sign in and get started.  

You have access to the recordings and the materials for the lifetime of the course.

You can expect to commit four to five hours a week to watch the training, complete the work, and then review.

Obviously, more experienced designers may take fewer hours. And newcomers take a little longer.

But it's self-paced, so you've got no pressure at all. You also have lifetime access and can work on this 24-7 – so whenever it works for you. 

This is a really good question.

This all depends on how much design experience you already have and if you are ready to go straight to market. 

If you have already got a unique handprint then the Comprehensive Business Builder will supercharge your results.

There is the 30-day Happiness Guarantee available to you, but as much as we want to, we cannot stand in your business and build it for you. So we can't guarantee you will do the work we’ve set out.  No one can.  Only you can decide that. 

If you love surface design, then this is for you. This is for every designer at every stage of their career – from fresh newbies looking to break into the surface design industry to experienced professionals looking to upskill and leap ahead. 

The knowledge we teach in these surface pattern design classes are the actual processes we use in our world class design studio every day.  It’s the emails we send to our agents, it’s the way we onboard our new brands like Givenchy and Seafolly, it’s how our entire design team translates the trends and turns them into best-selling designs. 

We list the price on this page when we are open for enrollments.  If you would like pricing information on the next round of enrolments, please email us at [email protected]

Why has the price gone up?
Even though the course is, as the name suggests, extremely comprehensive and we originally packed it with all the information we thought you would need to kickstart your own surface design business, our students continually have questions. And of course, we are continually answering them! At the end of every course we ensure that information is available to the next class of students. This means that every time we run the Comprehensive Business Builder for Surface Designers, it’s better than before! It gets stuffed with more of the information you really want to know. Therefore, the course offers more value to you each time we are live and the price reflects that.

Do I get any face-to-face tutoring?
YES! You do. That’s why we run the course in groups. Every month you’ll be invited to an online Q&A with our Creative Director, Bec, and our Head of Design, Sara. You are welcome to send questions ahead of time to be answered live in a class Zoom call. It’s your opportunity to pick their brains. Few other creative business courses are as open as we. We want you to succeed in this next chapter of your design journey, so we answer everything honestly, with as much detail as possible. We consider our Q&A’s the heart and soul of the course, and the thing that makes it exceptionally, well, exceptional!

What if I can’t make one of the monthly Q&A sessions?
No worries! We record and upload each session to our Coaching Course online page so you can revisit past sessions, or jump on to view it for the first time whenever it suits you.

Can I re-watch the lessons?
Again and again. Like all The Print School courses you have lifetime access to your course videos and written content.

Can I take this course though I don’t live in the USA or Australia?
The Comprehensive Business Builder course is all online and accessible from any location in the world.

How much is this course in my local currency?
Please go here to convert our USD pricing to your local currency.

What’s the difference between this course and other courses at The Print School?
Our other courses show you how to up level your print design skills. From flat gouache painting to watercolor techniques to the Adobe Photoshop tricks we use every day, we cover everything you will need to create finished designs you can confidently sell.

What Comprehensive Business Builder shows you is how to actually sell those designs to clients and make a living doing what you love. It shows you how to take your design skills and build a beautiful collection that's on trend and ready to wow the world.

It shows you how to build your brand from scratch, promote yourself and find the buyers for your work. In nutshell: all our other courses are about CREATING the surface designs. This course is about EARNING an income from the surface designs.

Will I have any kind of accreditation after doing this course?
Because The Print School and Longina Phillips Designs are both known entities across the textile industry, from Brazil to Brussels, employers will instantly understand the type of training you've had here and the relevance of the skills you’ve learned.

On completion of the last module you will receive a commercial certification signed by our founder, Longina Phillips, and the instructor of your course (in this case either Bec or Sara). We’ll email it out to you, andl al you have to do is print and display it somewhere you can admire it! It’s a reminder of your hard work and the commitment you’ve made to building the business you've only dreamed of til now.

I’m only just starting my creative business. Is this course right for me?
If your creative business involves design – whether surface print pattern or textile design – you’ll want to do this course! It’s geared specifically towards people like you: Creatives wanting to make a living from their talent. We hold your hand every step of the way, from registering your domain name to creating repeat clients.

I studied business at college so I don’t know whether I can justify paying for this course.
Your previous business studies have given you a brilliant foundation. And we have no doubt you’ll already understand some of the ideas we present in this course.  But if fabric design or surface design is the business you have decided to hone in on, then you won’t find a better business course anywhere!

As mentioned above, we are a world-leading print design studio and we’ve been doing this for 30+ years. It’s your opportunity to get direct information from the people who specialize in the exact market you want to tap.

We offer up-to-the-minute information on launching a small business in this fast-paced, ever-evolving world. And we offer a direct link to our leaders! In our monthly Q&As you can chat directly with our Creative Director and Head of Design, essentially picking their brains for answers to the questions you just can’t work out on your own.