Discover ways to organise your corporation with ‘Airtable for Creatives’


I simply completed an superior course, ‘Airtable for Creatives’ by designer Kristina Hultkrantz, and thought you may wish to find out about it. If you happen to’re something like me you’re gonna adore it!

Airtable is a free spreadsheet-meets-database app, however please don’t let that description put you off. It’s a genius organisational instrument that may assist us carry order to our generally chaotic inventive companies and brains!

I’m an organisational freak… One take a look at my wardrobe and also you’d know what I imply. Every little thing is folded to the identical width. I’m just about like that with my digital info. My pc information are additionally folded to the identical width, so to talk…

That is additionally why I’m obsessive about lists, storage methods and all apps that assist me organise my life a method or one other. There’s a lot info to maintain monitor of if you’re working your individual inventive enterprise; designs you’ve created and need to get completed, present and dream shoppers, lengthy and quick time period targets, tasks and to-dos, cash issues, advertising and marketing efforts, digital information, programs, and one million extra… We’d like a easy, accessible and environment friendly system to maintain all these things in!

I’m additionally obsessive about having a peek into how different designers/creatives handle and organise their companies… There’s a lot we will study from watching how different folks work and what methods they use!


Airtable for Creatives course [2] | Pitter Pattern

I created this course for you, my fellow illustrators, floor sample designers, letterers, or different inventive folks as a result of I do know first hand how tough it’s to maintain monitor of #allofthethings when you find yourself attempting to run your individual enterprise.

Kristina Hultkrantz


So, when I discovered Kristina’s class, ‘Airtable for Creatives’, I assumed it was the right probability to study extra in regards to the app. I’ve been enjoying round with it for a couple of months, however having the ability to see it from the attitude of one other designer like me, has helped me see extra clearly how it may be used to organise and preserve monitor of all the things in a inventive enterprise.

Airtable does that job fantastically. It’s straightforward to study, easy to make use of and it’s superb trying, which is necessary for visible people like us. Much more interesting and user-friendly than your normal spreadsheet software program, that’s for certain…



You may organise something with it, and the extra you utilize it the extra belongings you discover (and need!) to organise. You may throw at it just about any content material you want, together with attachments, notes, checkboxes, URLs, single and a number of choose, formulation and even hyperlink to different information in different tables. You may as well collaborate with different folks and sync all of your data throughout totally different units.

One in every of my favorite Airtable options is the choice to see all of your info in a distinct view from the same old spreadsheet grid. It has a calendar view, nice for managing social media and weblog posting, for instance. A Kanban view (suppose Trello), good for undertaking managing, and a gallery view, superb to maintain monitor of your design portfolio!

One other highly effective characteristic is the flexibility to filter, type and group all of your info simply the best way you want it. All these views may also be saved so you may simply get to them later.


Kristina Hultkrantz teaches the Airtable for Creatives course | Pitter Pattern
Illustrator, floor sample designer and on-line educator Kristina Hultkrantz

Kristina, an illustrator, floor sample designer and on-line educator, has been utilizing Airtable for a couple of years and swears by it, and you’ll see why if you see all of the methods she makes use of it to organise all her enterprise stuff.

My inventive enterprise hasn’t all the time run easily, and my file group and planning system has beforehand been a joke. A few years in the past I lastly prioritised making a easy system for my enterprise and it has helped me in additional methods than one. I not solely really feel extra assured in my enterprise as a result of I deal with it as an precise enterprise reasonably than a interest, organizing has additionally helped me to attain extra in much less time with much less complications. And now I’m so extremely excited to share all my methods, suggestions, and methods on this course with all of you. Woo hoo!

Kristina Hultkrantz

In her ‘Airtable for Creatives’ course, Kristina exhibits you the right way to preserve monitor of issues like:

  • Your huge, dreamy, long run targets
  • Your quarterly, month-to-month, weekly and day by day duties
  • Your designs, sortable by classes (my favorite!)
  • What you are promoting contacts
  • Your gross sales and licensing offers
  • Your monetary targets, evaluations and statistics

You may see the course curriculum under, however please go to her web site to see a whole breakdown and all different info…


Airtable for Creatives course curriculum | Pitter Pattern

You get 32 video classes, a grasp guidelines to maintain you on monitor and also you get 3 Airtable templates together with 19 tables arrange for your corporation HQ, monetary targets and grasp to-do checklist. It solely takes roughly 3 hours to observe all of it, so it’s very doable…

The ‘Airtable for Creatives’ course is often $47, however from Friday twenty first to Monday 24rd February 2020 it can go right down to $36, as Kristina is celebrating her birthday with a sale!

If you happen to’re not focused on getting the total class proper now, she has a 5-day free problem to softly introduce you to Airtable to get a begin on getting your inventive enterprise organised. I took it and actually advocate it…

I now have Airtables monitoring all of the programs I personal and need (sure, I’m an addict!), quick and long run targets, recurrent duties, mockup information, and all of the product analysis for my upcoming on-line store, ‘Republic of Joyful’. I’ve plans to make masses extra, together with tasks, funds, design portfolio, shoppers, branding belongings and all my editorial and social media content material planning…

If in case you have a geeky facet like me I promise you, when you give Airtable a go you’ll be obsessed. And even in the event you don’t have geeky tendencies I like to recommend you’re taking it for a spin… It would simply change the best way you’re employed endlessly.

We’d love to listen to from you… what different productiveness apps and courses do you’re keen on and advocate?




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