The Design & Grow Report

Stress test your design business & get a free, tailored growth report.

You design for a living, but when was the last time you designed the way you make your living?

Find out in 2 minutes or less where you should be focusing more of your energy in order to get your design business performing stronger, operating smarter and scaling easier.

Our rapid-fire quiz produces a tailored assessment that will help you to bridge the gaps that may be slowing down the growth potential of your brand.

All the answers you've been searching for.

We've taken the guesswork away from building your business.

In just a few short minutes, through answering a carefully curated questionnaire, we can show you exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are within your company and how to fix them efficiently.

But who are we to say? We're industry leaders who've worked with some of the biggest brands on the planet and our passion is in supporting design-led entrepreneurs to grow fun and profitable companies that don't tax the founders of all their energy, drive and love of design.

You'll get a completely tailored downloadable report
All insights are custom built to your business
The report 100% free and yours to keep

Sales & Marketing

How your brand is performing from a commercial perspective.

Systems & Operations

The effectiveness in how your business is run day-to-day.

Scale & Vision

The growth trajectory of the business in-line with your goals as founder.

This is Bijal's story.

Learn how Bijal's design business was radically transformed with the help of Artemis Doupa and maakeAcademy.

We know the road you're travelling.

Building a design-led business is a long, challenging, and often lonely journey.

With over 3 decades of experience in creating, running and scaling design-led businesses, we know the path to success in what's a vastly difficult industry – so much so that we can replicate it with predictability having done so time and time again.

Through working with over 10,000 brands, maakeAcademy founders Artemis Doupa and Alexander Wills are amongst the fashion and interior design industry's leading authorities.

maakeAcademy's Artemis Doupa, author of Design & Grow is considered one of this space's foremost experts and proudly coaches and mentors aspiring designer entrepreneurs to achieve fast and sustainable growth on the path to building successful brands that can outshine their competition.

The Design & Grow Report is a culmination of Artemis's unique expertise in scaling design-led businesses through leveraging her proprietary STORMS methodology.