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• trend forecasting

• graphic and textile design

Freelance Apparel Graphic Designer

Hi I'm Pankti Patel!  I am looking forward to starting a new career in Los Angeles and bringing and applying my passion for fashion and design to a new company. I am excited for the right position at the right company to apply my knowledge, skills, and expertise in design, color, print, and trend forecasting obtained from my last position as a successful Senior Textile Designer. I have confidence in building with and growing with a new team and exceeding its and my own expectations for success. Just to note, I would not need sponsorship.

• Trend researching and creating fresh new graphics and verbiage for Junior, Missy, and Women's apparel.
• Setting up pitch sheets and print ready files for production.? 
• Understanding scale, graphic art placement, colours, printing techniques, and applying knowledge to creating artwork for unique clients and customers.?
• Researching and staying current and knowledgeable about what is trending in fashion to apply to artwork and graphics.

Successfully leading the Design Team and Textile Designers by delegating daily tasks and projects and tracking progress to ensure client and production deadlines are met.

Extensive successful experience as a surface graphic/Textile Designer and in creating and developing graphics and allover print designs for rugs and coordinating cushions.

• Trend, print and color research and forecasting, and staying up to date with fashion and home trends.

• Creating textile graphic artwork and allover prints. As well as editing, modifying, resizing, and recoloring existing artwork, graphics images and prints in Illustrator and Photoshop. 

• Working closely with the Creative Director and Design Team to create seasonal trends, mood boards, and themes for new in-house collections.

• Translating current trends and inspirations into original artwork, graphic designs, and allover repeat prints.

• Attending buyer meetings and working with the sales team to discuss rug qualities being pitched, creating and selecting appropriate textile prints based on client’s trends, themes from mood boards, and direction/feedback provided by clients.

• Creating presentations for buyers and clients with a successful and well thought out product assortment of rug and cushion designs for stores. 

Senior Textile Designer

Successful at and responsible the creation of rug and coordinating cushion designs from concept to finished product for clients and in-house samples, while respecting product, print, color, and trend guide direction and fabric restrictions.

• Creating tech packs with detailed specifications of allover print designs, artwork placement, Pantone and/or yarn colors, sizes, material, trims, border selection, special treatments, print techniques, etc.

• Ordering design samples whilst respecting oversea factory sampling time and considering shipping time to ensure samples arrive in time so that deadlines are met.

• Sample and strike-off checking, assessing and approving samples from manufacturers to ensure samples are perfect, Pantone colors are correct, and company quality and design standards are met. 

• Communicating with suppliers and manufacturers and providing feedback when samples and strike-offs are incorrect and/or need to be revised and remade.

• Maintaining, updating, and archiving samples and design information in an organized catalogue and in-house sample library for easy access and reference.

• Bringing flat artwork into MIRA (loom software) and preparing design files and tech packs for loom production. Development of new product and rug qualities, selecting new yarn colors and assortment to achieve new offerings based on trends and season. 

Textile Designer

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