Senior Womenswear Printed Textile Designer

• Jul 2017 - Present

Womenswear Print Designer

• Oct 2014 - Present

Womenswear prints with a feminine and sophisticated handwriting.• Borders, placements, repeats, all over and biadere prints.• Emphasis on hand drawing, painting and mark making skills.• All designs created in Photoshop in vertical repeat with layers.• High production targets of 10 designs per week.• Fast paced environment with weekly deadlines.• High street customers and R-T-W. • Inspiration from catwalk reaction, art exhibitions and trend forecasts reports. • Prints mocked up into garments. • Responsibility to send in house and freelance design canvases to be digitally printed on a weekly basis.

Print and Textile Designer

• Jan 2013 - Sep 2014

Full Time Printed Textile Designer working for an innovative swatch studio. Designing sophisticated and commercial prints for both the luxury market and high street. Use of Photoshop, Illustrator, hand painting and drawing to create digital and screen printed designs.Creating repeat and placement prints. Organising and archiving designs and development. Researching through trend sites, analysing trend reports/forecasts and visiting exhibitions.Selling and communicating with buyers and designers at trade shows. Creating and instructing embroidery designs completed in India. Clients include the likes of Calvin Klein, DKNY, Club Monaco, Debenhams, Set Spa, Ruby Road among others.

Acting Deputy Manager

• Nov 2010 - Dec 2012

Full-time position selling luxury fashion with excellent customer service. Responsibilities included managing the shop on a daily basis, supporting senior management, cashing up/paperwork, being a key holder, communicating to Area Managers, head office and warehouse. Training members of staff was also a vital part of my role, to create a hardworking and knowledgeable team that ensured we successfully met our daily/weekly/annual financial budgets in difficult financial times.Other tasks included organising deliveries, visual merchandising, creating energising and educating team morning meetings and organising customer events. Skills required are efficiency, organisation, communication, leadership and creativity.I gained an excellent knowledge base of customer needs, desires and tastes to take to a head office role.

CAD Print Design Assistant Internship

• Aug 2010 - Sep 2010

Adapting hand drawn print designs into digital drawings using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Print and CAD Design Assistant Internship

• Jan 2010 - Apr 2010

Developing print and laser cutting designs using Photoshop and Illustrator CS4.Responsibility to design and oversee final laser cut prints were sampled, cut and delivered to meet strict deadlines. Organising couriers, design files and creative development. Liaising with UK suppliers. Screen printing. Creating digital print colour and fabric tests for production. Design specifications for production and buying sheets.

Textiles Print Freelance Designer for Designers at Debenhams Collection, Matthew Williamson

• Aug 2009 - Jan 2010

Commercial tropical bird and floral print designs for apparel.Inspired by my graduate collection collages of fine drawings and painted mark making of Birds of Paradise.