- Keen interest for colour/print
- Good knowledge of competitor & aspirational brands
- Excellent CAD skills including Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
- PLM experience preferable
- BA hons Fashion Design/Print/Illustration/Textiles Degree
- Sufficient DAA or Design Assistant experience with examples of design work
Assistant Print Designer - Carlisle, United Kingdom - Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Description
Job Description
Here at Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Print Designer to join our Design team.
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 400 units, including High Street, Tourist & Destination sites, predominantly Fashion and Home.
High Street
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill has mainstream high street stores selling ladies and menswear for the 45 plus customer. Outlets are located in a wide variety of market and provincial towns across the UK and Ireland
Tourist Shops and Visitor Centres
We have specialty tourist stores, where gift items and other products reflect the stores location. The outlets, which trade under an individual, often local, fascia, are in key tourist locations throughout the UK. Many stores are on busy tourist routes and benefit from coach visits where food service and exhibitions are all part of the attraction.
Destination Shopping
There are Destination Sites which contain all of the Company's concepts and other brands to increase their attractiveness as a retail destination. The sites trade under local, individual fascias such as Antartex Village, and Kernow Mill, Mackinnon Mills.
If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business, and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you.
This role will provide assistance to the Design Team to create and develop appropriate print designs aligned to our customer and product development strategy as part of a design team.
Key Responsibilities
· To create print designs interpreting appropriate trends and sales strategic information to meet range plan requirements and to design brief and critical path deadline dates.
· To research, help assist and put together trend boards/colour palettes as part of the design team.
· To assist efficiently in the development of product for sampling.
· To assist in the coordination of print development, ensuring that print artworks are issued in line with the critical path deadlines and thus prototype examples are available for final sign-off.
· To create prints and update them as necessary for relevant meetings.
· To fully utilise the CAD system in line with best practice and training.
· To become fully aware of the EWM customer priorities.
· To be a team player and able to work in a busy fast paced environment.
The ideal candidate: