Find a niche market for your designs: 6 pro tips

As creatives, we all want to produce work that's unique and worthwhile, but this often seems at odds with the commercial pressure to cater to the lowest common denominator. Yet the mass market isn't the only market with money. Find the right niche market and you could be in business, producing work you love in a way that'll keep you going right up to retirement.

Illustrator and jewellery designer Kate Rowland, from Bedford, UK, is a case in point. Not satisfied with just seeing her illustrations on paper, she moved into laser cutting.

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