What is Design Space?

In the video above, I show you a brief tour of the graphic design tool that I use when creating with my Cricut Maker machine, called Design Space. This software is what you have to use in order to print images using the machines from Cricut. You can use other graphic design softwares such as Canva, or Procreate to create your designs, but then you must upload them to design space in order to connect to and print with your machine. The neat thing about Design Space and the Cricut machines is that you can print your designs using Bluetooth! You don’t have to be connected or even in the same room as your printer or cutting machine.

During the video, I show a variety of images to choose from if you don’t want to upload your own images or you want to add more to your designs. There are images on Design Space that are free to use, as well as images that you need to pay to access. There are also full projects that you can download through Design Space and it will take you through all of the instructions on how to make the project from start to finish.

An image I uploaded near the end of the video was a free to use SVG image. An SVG is different than a JPEG or PNG in how it can be separated into multiple layers to be cut. The snowflake that I used is actually sliced into four different images so that the design can be printed onto four different colours of vinyl. When you are editing images and designs in your editing software, it is important to always remember to save your file as an SVG! JPEG and PNG files can only be used when you are sublimating an image, meaning it is being printed as is and directly placed onto an item, no cutting involved. I will talk about sublimation in my next post.