PLEASE NOTE: all patterns visible on this website have already been sold. That is why you can see © as any copy is forbidden.

 

Design

My job as textile designer started with a designer who wanted to create her own brand: Karin Beck. Together we created T-shirts, jumpers and jeans in serigraphy. The work was very exciting as we had to create everything: every drawing for the collection, but also the logo itself, the image of the brand for all items, and even the order brochures. My work involved the drawing of the models with the integration of placed designs. I am particularly pleased with the first collection, which was the most successful, and also the most profitable.

 

Textile design

All drawings are sold as a unique piece and are destined to be made by the textile industry. The patterns thus become textiles. There are also single drawings. Sometimes certain brands like to test various colours on a given drawing, which is the work of the colourist.
Patterns are digitalized as computer files are compatible with the automation of textile production. Certain software allows direct use of machine-tools and the creation of a pattern e-mailed only a few minutes beforehand.

Here are a few famous French brands: Etam, Dim, Armand Thierry, Dorotennis - for ready-to-wear clothes for women, men, children and lingerie.

When their creations are exported textile designers can sometimes feel frustrated not to be able to see the result of their work, or not to know how their designs have been used, as they have been sent away by an agent to the USA or Japan.

 

Trends offices

A Trend's office role is to define, at least two years in advance, what are going to be the major trends and people’s preferences in terms of fashion, furnishings and interior decoration in order to help brands and industrials to anticipate the market. Their role is not to impose but to reflect on innovations, behaviours, to have a vision of the leading trends. This delay enables customers to prepare their designs well in advance.

“Atmosphere pages” are displayed in books, according to certain colour schemes. Theses themes are used for inspiration by the buyers. Several specialists work on the same “trend book”, according to their expertise: designers, graphic designers, colourists, iconographer…

There are “trend books” for different sectors: printing, lingerie, swimming costumes, men, women, teenagers, children (boys/girls), toddlers, materials, etc. I contribute to the creation of such books as a textile designer.

Design Offices also offer instant solutions: customers see the entire creation of their collection ready to be made in a factory. This falls under the Order option. The whole catalogue including the design and the patterns become the customer’s property.

Desktop publishing

Before specializing in textiles, I was a model maker. I worked in a record company, for various magazines, advertising and communication companies. Then I became free-lance.

Styling and publishing are very close. A computer is the main tool and software is often the same in both sectors. Therefore I can offer, besides my textile creations, all sorts of communication applications: creation of logos, catalogues, labels, posters, portfolios, etc. I have had to create some plans for objects, which is not very different from model making.

I am often asked to create birth announcements, fliers and posters, which is encouraging me to develop supplementary aspects to my work. My customers can count on my excellent knowledge of the graphic design process.

 

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