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Freelance Fashion/Graphic Designer

Very experienced Fashion/Graphic Designer with 11 years experience designing for Junior's, Women's and Girl's sportswear and Graphic Tops. I've been designing freelance Graphic tops and knit tops for the past 2-3 years for multiple companies, and am looking into working full-time in house again with a team. Excellent with Photoshop and Illustrator, trend R&D, and presentation boards.

Designing Graphic tops for Junior's, Women's, and Girl's and also designing knit top and bottom body styles. Coming up with Trendboards and new Graphic tops every market, and in charge of the graphic top Line Development for Juniors and Girls 7-16.

*Designed a line for every market with screen tees and 5-10 new fashion bodies.
*Included detailed Tech Packs for each new fashion body.
*Approved all fittings for new fashion bodies.
*Directed all core art for screen tees/tops for Girls 7-16, 4-6x, and toddlers.
*Created some of the graphics myself for screen prints and all over prints.
*Made Trend Boards for every season/market.
*Involved in Product Development especially for our GWP’s.
*Trained and managed one main Girls Graphic Artist.
*Also worked with the other graphic artists in our department on art.
*Traveled with the Design team to some of the sales meetings.
*Very in touch with sales and keeping up with the best sellers.

Associate Designer-Girls 7-16, 4-6x, & Toddler

*Created a line of casual clothing with graphic and print inspiration for every Junior market including: screen tees, tanks, hoodies, sweatshirts, and loungewear bottoms for Bonafide Love.
*Worked with my own Graphic Artist and CAD Artist.
*Did some of the graphics myself for the screen prints and all over prints.
*Played around with some washes, bleaching, tie dyes, and burnouts in house, and also worked with the dye house vendors creating new washes.
*Worked directly with the vendors in China via email and Skype.
*The main companies we worked with were: Charlotte Russe, Rue 21, Wet Seal, Forever 21, DELiA*s, The Buckle, Torrid, Hot Topic, Tilly’s, Zumiez, Journeys, Alloy, Maurices, Vanity, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Charming Shoppes, Anchor Blue, Gordmans, Mandee, TJ/TK Maxx, Ross, Bealles, Gabriel Brothers, and Belk.
*The last few months I worked at Seventy Two, I designed the new denim line for A Fine Mess. I was in charge of designing/preparing the whole line including: fits, specs, etc.
*Traveled to Hong Kong and China to see our denim factory, wash/dye house, one of our main vendors office, shopped for fabrics in the stock market, and shopped around the stores for trend inspiration.

Associate Designer-Juniors/Girls Tops & Denim

Sales Associate

Design Assistant

*Contributed to preparing and altering photo-real line sheets for every market. 
*Played around with making new prints for the garments.
*Helped organize the line to be sent out for every market and took pictures.
*Prepared detailed spec sheets for the garments on the line and for orders.
*Corrected specs where needed on garments, and was involved with being the fit model for the line.

Design Assistant-Internship

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Jen O'Brien: Freelance Fashion/Graphic Designer in Long Beach, CA

Jen O'Brien

Designing for Multiple Companies

Hybrid Apparel

Seventy Two

Forever21 (Reference)

BIYAYCDA

KVM International Fashions

Deanzign

Brooks College

Clinton Community College