Hannah Wells

* During my time with Komar I was responsible for designing both garments and graphics for toddler girl and boys ranges and nightwear/loungewear ranges for girls 9-14yrs and ladies for a variety of high st retailers. This role enabled me to concentrate on improving my graphics skills and I became competent in creating all over prints, placement prints and appliqué/embroidery ideas. It was my responsibility to present ranges along with proposed fabrics and to follow the style through development until production. I feel that working for a supplier allowed me to understand how different high st retailers work at various levels of the kidswear market. This enabled me to adapt my handwriting accordingly to suit different customer needs.

Warwick

Responsible for Baby Girls 0-3 yrs and Older Girls 2-12 yrs departments. My key focus was to help move the 'Adams Kids' brand on and create a new handwriting to support their 'Kids Love Fashion' brand ethos ensuring that the product was fashionable yet commercial and suitable for children. My responsibilities included:- Designing wovens, jerseys, jackets and true knitwear. European and international inspiration trips. Trend research. Producing and presenting theme boards, colour palettes and key shapes boards for the season Briefing themes and key looks to the freelance graphic designers. Producing design briefs and distributing design packs to the relevant suppliers Research for new branding ideas, swingers and looks. Range building with buyers and merchandisers. Far east supplier and factory visits- briefing design briefs face to face and working closely with suppliers and their show room samples to create new ideas. Visiting far east stock market -sourcing new trims, buttons and fabrics. Viewing print and embroidery studios' collections. Working alongside Q.A to check the fits and look of the garments. Training & managing trainee designers in C.A.D and in their daily duties.

My role as a senior designer at Cuthberts was to manage and coordinate all design and development projects for the company. My responsibilities included:- Managing the workload of the design studio, liaising with customers, briefing work to the design team and ensuring that deadlines were met. Trend and competitive research and presenting information back to sales executives and customers. Designing garments and graphics for layette and newborn essentials areas of various UK, European and USA retailers. Developing the branded range including packaging for worldwide launch. Presenting ranges and artworks to customers. Sample management - providing thorough costing and style information to their Indian factories to ensure that development samples were produced as the original design. Working alongside the print manager to ensure that artwork and style data was completed and approved in line with critical path dates. Working closely with the technical and development department checking approvals against original artworks. Regular video conferences with sample room managers to advise on priorities, workload and sampling issues to ensure the critical path was adhered to. This role enabled me to encompass and improve many skills and experiences gained in my previous roles such as team leading, time management and communication skills. Whilst also improving my knowledge, particularly in graphic design, but also in the development and production processes.

M&Co designing their 3-10yrs girls ranges aswell as working for other various high st retailers and suppliers on a less regular basis. I design garments and graphics using illustrator cs5 and photoshop cs5. I am also responsible for trend research, trend/key shape board and colour palette collation. I partake in regular inspiration trips to London and Europe. With M&Co I have had regular trips to Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, China and Hong Kong to visit suppliers and factories to brief designs and action samples. Other freelance clients have included M&Co Kylie (teen) range, Shop Direct, Debenhams, Primark Dublin & Europe, Store 21 and George Baby through Poetic Gem.