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Apparel Graphic & Textile Design Manager
South Korea
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023 (8 months)
• In charge of creating original prints for yardage print, screen graphics, lace, embroidery, yarn dye, etc.
• Provide graphic trend market intelligence and analysis for U.S. buyers such as Kohl’s, Target, H&M, and Costco.
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Design Team Lead
South Korea
Jul 2019 - Feb 2023 (3 years 7 months)
* Designing bedding products from creating original textile prints to complete bedding products for a specific home shopping channel in South Korea.
• In charge of the entire design team, manage and coach the team members.
• Design whole bedding product sets such as duvets, spreads, blankets, throws, pillows, and so on.
• Create original textile prints for bedding products from scratch, recreate the layouts, and recolor the purchased artwork.
• Select and approve the materials, fabrics, trims, silhouettes, styles, colors, and patterns for the whole product.
• Research and execute the concepts for each season or develop the catalog of each product for presentation to the clients.
• Prepare the concepts for product photo shooting and cooperate with the photography agency.
• Trend research and select color themes for seasons.
• Create a development plan for seasons and worksheets.
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Textile Graphic Artist
City of Industry, CA
Oct 2015 - Nov 2018 (3 years 1 month)
• Create original artworks such as yardage print, screen graphics, sublimation, engineered placement, lace, embroidery, yarn dye, etc.
• In charge of all of the print-related artworks for specific divisions, such as repeat, coloring, color matching, cleaning for send-outs, and over-seas.
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Textile Designer
Vernon, CA
Jun 2012 - Sep 2015 (3 years 3 months)
• Develop a new layout for engineered or all-over layouts from purchased artwork and embroidery.
• Create repeat, clean, and separate colors from scanned or purchased artworks for send-outs.
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Apparel Graphic Artist
Color Harmony
Los Angeles, CA
Apr 2006 - Jun 2012 (6 years 2 months)
• Create original prints for women’s, junior's, and kid’s apparel graphics using silk screen, sublimation, digital print, and a 4-color process print technique for big buyers such as Forever 21, Wetseal, Buyer, Arden B, etc.
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Background Colorist and Compositor
Kmc Films
Sep 2003 - Apr 2006 (2 years 7 months)
• Finalize background coloring digitally on the scanned sketch or from scratch using Adobe Photoshop for animation film series.
• Create 3D textures for the background and props for the films.
• 2D and 3D animation composition using After Effects and Animo.