Laundry Studio
Freelance Pattern Design
2013-2015
Laundry Studio is a surface design studio in Portland Oregon. I started out here as an intern and progressed to a Freelance Designer. I Created many designs for apparel here. I worked on many projects for apparel here including engineered prints, repeat design, original prints, and graphic design for Tee's.
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For each brief given, I created many options so as to provide the client with a broad range to choose from. In these projects I was working under the art direction of Jennifer Stady, Creative director and Owner of Laundry Studios. This really helped me learn how to present to clients.
CLIENTS
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Moutnain Hardwear
Patagonia
Nike Golf
Nike
Gap
Old Navy
Athleta
In this position I also created mood boards to inspire or add to briefs that we had been given. This process really helped me shape my ideas and make sure they were on trend.
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As a Designer, I work in several different ways. I like to start off of the computer, working with my hands. I always start by collecting inspirational research and then I move on to either illustration or drawing made by hand and scanned into the computer. After I have created a file of collected references and a language of marks, I start working with Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop to translate that into a print.
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I first learned the process of making a repeat by hand, with silk screens and registration on actual fabric. This process of learning really helps me when I am building a repeat in a computer program because I have a physical understanding of how the print is going to be produced.
