Job description
Associate Textile Designer
*Must work On-site in Culver City.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with design team to modify artwork purchased from print vendors or vintage resources as needed. This includes all-over prints, stripes, plaids, yarn dyes, embroideries, and occasionally graphics.
- Oversee artwork development from initial creation or sourcing/purchase through bulk production approval stage
- Prepare artwork for production by color separating, cleaning, and putting into repeat
- Generate pitch sheets for China development team with measurements and color standard specifications, in accordance with production capabilities
- Help maintain and organize Archroma and Pantone color libraries, and be point-person for color questions
- Use Archroma/ Pantone color standards to color match artwork to existing samples and recolor artwork
- Partner with design team to create seasonal color palettes using Archroma and/or Pantone
- Manage all artwork for various accounts according to production schedule, generate print codes & artwork names and create print development spreadsheets to share with internal team
- Review strike-offs with design team and clearly communicate all comments and updates to the China development team
- Set up and maintain organized, account specific binders with all developed prints for each design cycle
- Make sure all work is adhering to design calendar(s) and deadlines are being met in a timely manner
- Research seasonal print trends and prepare reports (including shopping/retail) to share to design & merchandising teams
- Communicate with print vendors for sourcing and purchasing artwork
- Manage print archive of all purchased and internally created artwork
- Keep artwork-specific folders on shared drive organized for design team
- Work with design team to create scaled versions of all artwork for CADs
- Drawing, painting, and illustration experience
- Knowledge of apparel design or construction a plus
Soft skills
• Strong communicator
• Flexible
• High attention to detail
• Organized and able to stay on top of multiple projects/deadlines at once
• Good time management
• Can anticipate design needs before being asked, ready to offer solutions or new ideas when any problems arise
- Required software skills
• Nedgraphics
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Indesign
• Excel
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