With over 4 years print design industry experience and a First-Class design degree, I am actively seeking new employment opportunities to further my career within textile design. My skills and attributes would be best placed in a print design role for fashion or interiors.
Highly passionate for the textiles industry, I have a keen eye for trends, colour and repeat pattern with a versatile design style. With proven commercial experience across varied target markets and product sectors, I am confident in creating hand-drawn and digital designs, colour separations and using textile software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and AVA.
During my degree at the University of Leeds, I graduated with First Class Honours in BA (Hons) Textile Design (Industrial) and undertook an industrial placement year at Digetex. Since graduating, I have been committed to building my career within the textiles industry, having also worked as a Print Design Assistant for Project AF, Pentex Ltd., undertaken an internship at JRC and freelanced for both Bunker Mentality and Collecting Colour.
Work history
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Print Design AssistantProject AF
- London, United KingdomFull Time
High-street supplier of ladieswear fashion for clients including Arcadia, River Island, M&Co and supermarket brands
My responsibilities included:
• Re-colouring and re-working prints to trend research and customer briefs
• Designing original prints for customers and in-house portfolio
• Preparing CAD packs for client meetings
• Re-working prints into screen sizes and sending files to mills
• Organising in-house digital lengths
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Print Design AssistantPentex Ltd
- London, United KingdomFull Time
High-street supplier of womenswear and childrenswear fashion for brands such as Primark, Matalan and Max Fashion
My responsibilities involved:
Design:
• Trend research mood-boards – high-street and catwalk analysis
• Re-coloured and re-worked prints in the archive
• Designed original prints – hand-drawn and digital, for customer briefs and to catwalk reactions
• Created colourways
• Pulled print collections for meetings
• Supported the manager and print designers as well as trained new print team members
Processing strike-offs for design and sales:
• Created commercial 2way repeats
• Colour separated all design files using AVA software including both block and tonal colour prints
• Provided pantone colours and scale reference
• Maintained a comprehensive history of strike-offs on excel database
• On return of strike-offs - checked for faults, liaised with designers for any re-requests and archived strike-offs in the print room
• Communicated with mills on a daily basis
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Skills
- Fashion Print
- Hand Drawing
- Surface Pattern
- Adobe Photoshop/indesign/illustrator
- Microsoft Office
- Digital Textiles
- Textile Design
- Print Design
- Painting
- Textiles
Education
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BA(Hons) Textile Design (Industrial) - First ClassThe University of Leeds
- Leeds, United Kingdom
• Achieved a First
• Four-year degree including an industrial placement year at Digetex
• Involved a balance of practical design modules, specialising in print design and academic modules such as design management, marketing, history & theory of design and an independent dissertation
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A LevelsToot Hill College
- Nottingham, United Kingdom
A Levels in:
• Art and Design A*
• Photography A*
• Psychology A*
• Extended Project in Surface Pattern Technology B
• AS in English Combined B
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