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Make and Design with Carina Gardner

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Make and Design with Carina Gardner is a arts podcast hosted by Carina Gardner. It has 587 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Carina Gardner, Ph.D. unravels the everyday joys and dilemmas of design, making, and business. This inside scoop into fabric design, paper design, die cut design, and crafting will help bring more creativity and joy in your life. Carina Gardner is the founder and CEO of the University of Arts & Design.  She was the Creative Director of Cartabella Paper Co. and MiniLou. She has designed everything from dishware, sewing patterns to bracelets under her brand. She currently designs fabric for Riley Blake Designs and die cutting files for Silhouette while teaching other designers how to create meaningful businesses with their design work.

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Episode 560 The Anatomy of A Product That Sells

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Episode 559 How To Do A Spring Edit of Your Shops

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Episode 558 4 Lessons I Learned About Design Leadership

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557 The Key 3 Things Who Are Winning Are Doing

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556 Build Your Own Defined Design Process

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Episode 555 Business Breakthroughs with Elizabeth Chappell

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Episode 554 How YOU Need to Transform To Become Who You Want To Be

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Episode 553 Real Confessions of What Is Happening With Design Suite and the University of Arts & Design

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Episode 552 The Simple Truth About Owning A Business

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Episode 551 Clarity Over Creativity

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Episode 550 Attention is Limited

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Episode 549 Dishing the Tea with Lori Whitlock

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Episode 548 Goal Setting Made Simple

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Episode 547 Real Results from a University of Arts & Design Student Brenna Powell

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Episode 546 Your Year of Intention

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545 - A Sneak Peek At Our Family Life During the Holidays

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544 - Four-C Model of Creativity

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543 - End of Year Tribute to Lindsay Bowerman

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542 - Is AI Cutting Down Idea Diversity? The Troubling Results of One Study

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541 - Abundance Thinking + A Book Recommendation

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540 - Pulling Back the Curtain on Virtual Conferences

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Episode 539 - Lessons I Recently Learned From a Plumber

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Episode 538 - Julie Thompson’s Gluten-Free Breakthrough with Foundations Built from Design Suite

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Episode 537 - Want to Crush 2026? Here’s Why I Start Planning in October

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Episode 536 - I'm A Designer. Now What?

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Episode 535 - The Startling Truth About What AI Is Doing To The Design Industry

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Episode 534 - Feeling Behind? Listen to This

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Episode 533 - The Locked Drawer

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Episode 532 - Negotiation Secrets Every Designer Needs with Carina Gardner & Susie Tomenchuk

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Episode 531- Feeling Invisible? 3 Marketing Layers You Need

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Episode 530 - Is It Too Late To Start A Design Career?

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Episode 529 - Designing While Momming - How I Built My Business With Kids At Home

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Episode 528 Design Advice I Would Give My Younger Self

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Episode 527 Why Does Creative Potential Suffer?

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Episode 526 How to Price Your Design Work When You're Just Starting Out

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Episode 525 Design Entrepreneurship & Leadership Skills You Can Learn to Do NOW with Vincent Wanga

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Episode 524 Designing for Profit: Why Some Creatives Make It and Others Don’t

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Episode 523 3 Mistakes New Designers Make (and How to Avoid Them)

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Episode 522 Income for Designers: What Really Works in 2025

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Episode 521 From Hobby to Business: Turning Your Design Skills Into Cash

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Episode 520 How to Become a Graphic Designer and Work from Home

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Episode 519 Dishing the Tea with Event Coordinator Sarah Cannon

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Episode 518 Pull the Weeds, Water the Roots: How to Grow a Business That Lasts

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Episode 517 The Marketing Dilemma for Designers

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Episode 516 Dishing the Tea with Daughter Felicity

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Episode 515 The Grasshopper and The Ant

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Episode 514 Recap of the Design Business Conference

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Episode 513 Drowning in Too Much Too Do

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Episode 512 Dishing the Tea with Daughter Felicity

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Episode 511 Simple Traffic Tricks with Pinterest with Nadalie Bardo

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