Home Textiles Designer

Description Description Town & Country Living is a global leader in home décor, textiles, and design. Our expanded family includes Home Dynamix and Amalgamated Textiles, providing more than 60 years of combined experience in the home décor industry. The combination of all three companies together brings unmatched expertise and excellence in sales, design, development, sourcing, supply chain efficiencies, customer service, and e-commerce fulfillment.

With our company’s diverse multi-product assortment across all home categories, we can provide excellent offerings and service to our retail partners while responding quickly to the ever-changing needs of the marketplace. KEY RESPONSIBILTIES

• Create original artwork for customer specific product lines, including brands and private label
• Design specific customer related products for prints, woven and embellished product categories.
• Understanding of printing process, woven fabrics, product construction, sewing and embroidery techniques and terminology.
• Manage design process from inspiration to production ready spec kits/tech packs
• Produce technical specs, die lines, print and woven repeats, color separations for production ready files to send factories.
• Communicate with agents and factories overseas on design product execution.
• Participate in design and trend research, identifying new trends, techniques, color ideas and product concepts.
• Create trends, designs and planograms for customer presentations.
• Attend internal and customer meetings.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• Highly skilled at cleaning files, repeats, color separation, production and spec art.
• Possess a keen creative eye for design and be able to research product trends for design and product development.
• Must understand how to create a pattern repeat, design a layout and have an excellent color sense.
• Must be able to work independently and in a team setting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment with strong attention to detail
• Must have creative skills in presentation execution, design aesthetic and able to set up production ready art files and die lines for factories.
• Must be highly proficient with Mac operating systems and Adobe Creative Suite software, including Illustrator and Photoshop.