Paid Textile Design Internship

Derek Rose Ltd are a luxury brand based on Baker Street, London specialising in nightwear, underwear and loungewear. All of our textiles are designed in-house including repeat print, jacquards and yarn dyed stripes and checks. This is an exciting opportunity for a Textiles graduate looking to gain industry experience.

You will be a part of a small team working directly with the internal designers contributing to the development of the SS17 collection and supporting the general running of the design office.

This internship is full time and will last six months to start end of July finishing end of January.

The ideal candidate:

  • Textiles (BA) hons degree
  • Interest and knowledge of designing prints and yarn dyed stripes and checks
  • Strong commercial awareness
  • Interest in textile design for both men’s and womenswear
  • Must be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
  • An excellent understanding of working in a fashion environment and of the design process
  • Be proactive and able to work independently on your own initiative

Duties to include:

  • Assisting the designers to design print, jacquards and yarn dyed stripes and checks
  • Creating design tech sheets
  • Using Adobe Creative Suite to bring concepts to design
  • Assisting with administrative tasks including archiving fabrics, filing, answering calls, maintaining showroom, updating design boards and other day to day tasks
  • Researching new trends, creating mood boards and colour research
  • Producing marketing materials using Adobe InDesign

If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you. To apply email us a PDF portfolio, CV and cover letter. To read more about this post go here.

Textiles Design Assistant for Childrenswear at Boden

Boden are looking for a full time Textiles Design Assistant in the Childrenswear department.

Main duties

We’re famous for our love of pattern and colour and we’re looking for an outstanding designer to join our in-house graphics team. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a degree in fashion textiles, print or illustration – and one to two years’ industry experience in a similar role.

Fun logos are part of our Mini signature style, we’re looking for someone with excellent drawing skills and a good sense of colour who can design logos in a charming, engaging and innovative way. On the commercial side, you should have a good understanding of print and embroidery techniques and fabric types.

Skills & Experience

You’ll be competent in Illustrator, Photoshop and Microsoft Office. As well as being a good designer, you’ll also perform an important administrative role. We’re looking for an organisational whizz who can keep our files and logo boards in ship shape order. An excellent communicator, you’ll liaise with suppliers, comment on art work submissions and be able to complete 101 other tasks in the course of your duties.

If this sounds like you we’d like to hear from you. Take a good look at our brand, then send us a PDF of your portfolio, a short CV and a letter explaining why you were meant for us.

To read more about the role and apply go here 

Closing date – July 23, 2015

Highlights from the WSA New Designers stand

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From top to bottom: Featuring the work of Alex Poyner and Kat Walker, Annabelle Jennings, Chloe Rutherford, Grace Fincham and Charlie Magnay, Sarah Street and Ellice Soloman.

16 students from Printed Textiles, Knitwear for Fashion and Woven Textiles were selected to showcase their work at the London event last week.

WSA Textile Design students at New Designers next week

Selected graduates from Printed Textiles, Woven Textiles and Knitwear for Fashion will be showcasing their collections at New Designers 24th-27th June at stand T11.

WSA Textile Design Poster

New Designers, Business Design Centre, Islington, London

http://www.newdesigners.com/

Two Textile Designer Posts at Stephen Walters & Sons Ltd

Stephen Walters are silk weavers designing and producing fabric for international luxury brands. They have built their reputation as design leaders working exclusively with fashion houses across the world.

They are recruiting for the following two positions to join their highly regarded design team:

  • Textile Designer to work within their technical design team producing designs using their jacquard software.
  • Textile Designer to work within their creative design team producing CAD representations of their jacquard designs.

The design work is extremely varied and covers a broad range of fabrics from men’s neckwear to contemporary womenswear and furnishings.

They are looking for two designers with good artistic ability and drawing skills, a sensitivity to colour, a diversity of styles and attention to detail. An understanding of CAD systems would be beneficial but not essential, as full training will be given to the successful applicant.

Their design team is currently made up of trained designers from a variety of disciplines such as print, surface pattern and weave. They would like to hear from anyone who is qualified in similar areas.

Closing date for applications 26.06.15

Please email your CV with a covering letter to
Katherine Winterton: katherinew@stephenwalters.co.uk

WSA Make Future Graduate Magazine now online

WSA Graduate Magazine

http://www.wsamakefuturemagazine.com

Featuring work from Fashion Design, Knitwear for Fashion, Printed Textiles and Woven Textiles, alongside student interviews and contact details.

Featuring the work of Woven Textiles student Becky Emery

Final year Woven Textiles student Becky Emery shares some of work with us. Her graduate collection explores human impact on the environment and the ecosystem. Her research focuses on the great pacific garbage patch and deforestation of Indonesian rainforest for palm oil plantations – both have an affect on the environment and endanger species.

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Becky is currently creating a woven fabrics and trimmings collection for the interiors market with the aim to raise awareness on the issues, as well as setting an example by recycling materials such as ropes and plastic bags within the collection.

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We look forward to seeing the complete collection in just a few weeks. Make sure to check out Becky’s work at our graduate events in London.