Technical
Manual Pattern Drafting and Grading
Competent at drafting using the flat pattern method for drafting, able to work with complex garments with many pattern pieces, accurate and informative drafts, able to grade using the movement method, have experience with grading both adult's and children's garments.
Garment Construction
Experience with devising and cutting lay plans, following and writing assembly plans, general construction with lockstich machines, using specialty machines including overlockers, coverstitch machine, buttonholers, button machines and blind hem machines, handling different types of fabrics and evaluating their suitability for a given garments.
Specifications
Skilled at putting together garment, print, dye and knit specification.
Technical Drawing
Knowledgeable in making technical drawings in two different software programs (Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape), experience with manual technical drawing accurately, clear and informative technical drawings encompassing all major construction details.
Vector Software
Experienced with both Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape, able to work efficiently to create technical drawings, prints, concept sketches, colour palettes, logos and wordmarks.
Image Editing Software
Experienced with Adobe Illustrator and GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), proficient with Krita, some experience with darktable, able to enhance hand drawn images, create mood and imageboards, edit and enhance photos, work with complex, layered projects to create striking final images, create digital sketches and paintings, rapid and accurate digital colouring of hand-drawn linework.
Desktop Publishing Software
Experience with Adobe InDesign and Scribus for creating portfolios and complex document layouts ready for print.
Office Software
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as LibreOffice and LaTeX (for typesetting). Experienced at working with templates, managing large documents and writing of multiple document types including: Reports, Specifications, Proposals, Meeting Minutes, Costing Sheets, Purchase and Customer orders, Articles and Theses, able to work well and accurately with formulas.
Creative
Garment Concepts
Able to devise and sketch out a diverse range of original garment concepts for a given theme, strong and principled design style, able to envision what fabrics would be most suitable and communicate clealy, can work both by hand and digitally.
Garment Design Development
Able to efficiently vary design details to fully develop potential of a garment concept, can source and communicate fabrics and trims suitable for a concept, proficient at considering and communicating construction details that best suit a concept and ethos of a collection.
Print Design
Able to create seamless repeats of prints by both hand and digitally for meterage and appropriately sized and shaped artwork for placements, knowlegable about different print methods and their practicalities, able to prepare artwork for exposure to screens.
Fashion Illustration
Experience with creating a custom croquis and adapting developed garments to it to create a compelling look that reflects the ideas of a collection, using a combination of physical media and digital techniques.
Interpersonal
Critical Thinking
Highly Proficient at analysing systems, examining underlying logic of positions, checking veracity of claims, comparing arguments and combining compatible elements of them.
Team Communication
Experience with communicating capabilities and expectations, checking-in with team members, colaborating on documents, addressing issues and contributing to the even distrobution of tasks.
Working Under Pressure
Experienced with working under time pressure with multiple time-sensitive tasks, working to deadlines and intergrating later introduced tasks to workflow.
Written Communication
Highly Proficient at formal written communication in several settings, familiar with writing and scheduling social media posts for an organisation and communicating to stakeholders through in-person and digital means.
Research
Proficient at sourcign information through both private and public means, both digital and physical, evaluate authority of sources for accuracy and relavence and presenting findings with full references in a variety of systems.
Visual Communication
Experience with creating moodboards, inspiration boards, folios and visual diaries in a clear manner.
Auxiliary
Photography
Experienced with Digital and Film Cameras and their functions, framing and accurate exposure of scenes. Main proficieny is in streetscapes but I have some experiance with portraits.
Web Development
Experience writing and maintaining a working static website by hand using multiple layout techiques, have deployment, configuration and troubleshooting experience with Caddy webserver on a server, worked with php code in pages, general server configuration in preparation for web hosting.
Weave Drafting
Experience in drafting for multiple weaves, including colour proportions and interactions, designing for weaving on hand, dobby and jacquard weaving, understanding of suitability of different yarns, yarn dominance and sett, as well as finishing details.
Screen Printing
Experience in designing for print, preparation of artwork for exposure, knowledge of the screen exposure process, colour mixing with pigments, working with different and specialty bases, screen set up, accurate printing and cleanup and print finishing processes.