Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration

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Freelance Designer

Hi!

I am Iitu a Fashion Designer and Creative Brand Marketer originally hailing from Helsinki, Finland.

At the moment I am working as a freelance social media marketer and hunting&outdoor apparel designer for Origopro and as a visual&apparel specialist in golf retail at Golf Sky.

I graduated as a Master of Arts at the University of Lapland Fashion Design as my major and  I have been working on projects from work wear to technical and luxury outerwear as well as casual clothing as a freelancer and in-house designer.

I have gained a strong knowledge in branding, fashion marketing, concept planning, clothing design and manufacturing through work and studies.I thrive my inspiration from my travels and the people I have met. My design ideology is to make functional and timeless clothing that endure the test of time. Ecological materials and sustainability in design are things that I value the most. Action sports have always played a big role in my life, which brings up the enthusiasm and creativity in me as a designer. Snowboarding has been a way of living for me over two decades, which culture shows in many of my designs.

At the moment I am working as a freelance designer and social media marketer for Origopro.


Working at Golf Sky Vantaa and Espoo stores I've been responsible of visual store image in a 2000 Sq m golf clothing and equipment stores and customer service. The store offers clothing from various golf brands such as: Abacus, Adidas, Alberto, Callaway, Calvin Klein, Chervo, Cross, Daily Sports, EP New York, Foot Joy, Green Lamb, J. Lindeberg, Oakley, Peak Performance, Puma, Röhnisch, Travis Mathew, Under Armour and Wilson.
In all my work includes training the team in VM and apparel sales, organising and supervising VM in the store, sales and customer service.

Visual & Apparel Specialist

I spend about six months traveling LA-Maui-Australia-Hong Kong. During the travels I worked as a promotional model for PMA models, as a  fitting model in the fashion industry and worked for Sydney Fashion weekend as a fashion show dresser.

Traveler

Linnanen is a luxury brand from Finland, which manufactures coats for women and men from water repellent silk and cashmere with fur trimmings. My job at Linnanen is at the moment designing the winter 2016/2017 collection which consist around +/- 120 products; coats and accessories.
      I am also responsible of choosing and ordering materials (fabrics, trimmings, buttons and other accessories), and communicating with the contractors about the quality etc. I hand- and computer sketch the collection and its technic a drawings. Quality and fitting are the most important things in their garments and I also take part daily to the fitting sessions (ready made garments and collection prototypes) and  pattern-drawing (by hand). Among all this I also help with creating marketing material.

Designer

3 month internship for a Finnish women's wear and home decoration brand Ivana Helsinki.
I took part in various in-house projects and worked on co-operation projects with other companies. My chores vary from print designing, marketing material designs, ethnical drawing for the spring/summer collection 2015 and assisting in photo shoots and film shoots.

Design & Marketing Assistant (Internship)

May - Sep.2011 (Internship)
- sketching for collection
- prototype sewing
- pattern making
- grading
- sample evaluation

Nov.2011-Nov. 2012

- Casual help as production assistant/stylist in 2011/2013 commercial fashion film and catalog + website sales photo shoots.
- Exhibition sales rep. in Boardexpo 2011 and 2012, selling old stock, promoting new collection, building up the booth


Art Director’s Assistant

Three month internship as production and marketing assistant.

- updating social media and website
- organizing company's corporate development days program
- script supervisor in music video for Finnish band Apulanta
- film production assistant, stylist, MUA in commercial tourism film 'No ordinary destination'

Marketing & Film Production Assistant 

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Maria Kataja: Freelance Designer in Helsinki, ES

Maria Kataja

Maria Kataja

Golf Sky

various

Linnanen Ltd.

Ivana Helsinki

Icon Snowboards

Flatlight Films

Donghua University ICES

Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences

Helsinki Business College

Helsinki Design School

The University of Lapland

The University of Lapland

The University of Lapland