Overview
Textile Print and Graphic Designer, Apparel
Los Angeles Metropolitan
On-site
Full-time
About the job
Company Description L'AGENCE is a lifestyle brand founded in 2008 that blends Southern California's easy-chic aesthetic with a refined Parisian sensibility. The brand has grown from ready-to-wear and denim into a broader collection including footwear, swimwear, belts, and hats, designed to support a versatile, on-the-go lifestyle. Its collections are carried in approximately 450 specialty stores worldwide and featured at major retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Harrods, Printemps, and Holt Renfrew. L'AGENCE is headquartered in Los Angeles, with additional showrooms in New York City, Paris, and Seoul, offering global reach and exposure for its design teams.
Location: Los Angeles, On-Site
Department: Design
Compensation: $100,000-$110,000
Job Summary
The Textile Print & Graphic Designer is responsible for the research, design, and execution of all seasonal prints, textile patterns, and graphic artworks for our Women's Apparel collections. This role is essential in providing elevated, brand-right print ideas that differentiate the brand in the market and drive business growth, ensuring all final artworks are production-ready from concept to completion.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide seasonal print research and ideas that are in-line with the brand aesthetic and meeting merchandising need, ultimately prints that the L'AGENCE customers would love.
- Create and design prints and graphics by using photoshop and Illustrator to establish repeats, layouts, placement, recoloring, pitching/matching colors, and relate necessary printing techniques to factories.
- Develop customed tags, labels, trims, and embellishment per direction from Design team.
- Partner with Print Team to source elements needed to create prints. Initiate solutions and trouble-shoot during print development to improve outcome.
- Partner with Designer Team to align on scale, repeat and colors to optimize final style outcome.
- Manage print and artwork projects while adhering to calendar deadlines, by working independently and collaborating with internal teams, and outside resources
- Manage copyright release forms for artworks
- Manage Strike off approvals and comments
- Collaborate with Design, R&D, Product Development teams to optimize on execution and efficiency
- Maintain an organized print/artwork/color library
Qualifications
- 5+ years of apparel prints and graphic design experience
- Advanced Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills must be fast in manipulating existing artworks and creating from scratch.
- Solid knowledge of apparel development process and print techniques
- Elevated taste and strong passion for prints, colors and fabrics, comparable to luxury/designer brands.
- Familiar with customer profile, best and worst prints/colors across all categories. Well-versed on current and emerging trends as well as competitive retail landscape.
- Able to maintain a constant sense of urgency while being creative in problem solving.
- Strong time management skill, ability to manage multiple projects and take initiatives, proactive, ownership driven
- Ability to adapt collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, ability to prioritize and shift focus with ease and flexibility
Requirements
- This position requires frequent use of a computer, mouse and keyboard.
- Frequent sitting.
- Occasional standing, walking, bending, stooping.
- Advanced organizational skills and communication skills
- Office environment experience
- This position will be in-office, M-F (Los Angeles, CA)
About the company
Founded in 2008, L'AGENCE is a lifestyle brand that melds the easy-chic feel of Southern California with a Parisian sensibility. What began with ready to wear and denim has grown exponentially to include categories such as footwear, swimwear, belts, and most recently, hats. Built to anticipate every need of a life on the go, the L'AGENCE wardrobe chameleons with its customer from airport to gala, beachside to boardroom.
