resumé
I would love to work freelance for several brands and markets to keep materializing my style. I'm striving to have my creations licensed all around the world, and I'm also developing my own brand. Five of my designs will be featured in the "Patternbase: a Collection of Contemporary Textile and Surface Design" book to be published in 2013.
experience
08/2012 - to date: Freelance Designer at MaJoBV - Milan IT
08/2010 - 08/2012 : Freelance Designer at La Pâtisserie des Idées - Milan IT
07-09/2011: Agrodolce srl, Freelance Designer - Milan IT
07/2007-02/2011: Jil Sander, Retail Office Assistant - Milan IT
05/2009-06/2010: Musani srl, Junior Designer - Milan IT
05/2008-03/2009: Numa Playground, Freelance Designer - Milan IT
04-05/2008: Muse Magazine, Production Assistant- Milan IT
02/2008: 10 Corso Como, Sales Associate - Milan IT
06/2006: non-profit association Care Blair Designs, Freelance Designer - Muskoka CA
05-08/2003: Dillards Inc., Customer Service Associate - Naples US
- Surface Pattern Design for fashion, stationary and/or homewares for different kind of markets.
08/2010 - 08/2012 : Freelance Designer at La Pâtisserie des Idées - Milan IT
- Textile Design.
- Design and hand-tailored garments for private clients.
07-09/2011: Agrodolce srl, Freelance Designer - Milan IT
- Research and design accessories for tech gadgets.
07/2007-02/2011: Jil Sander, Retail Office Assistant - Milan IT
- Collaboration during Men and Women's collection's sales campaign.
- Organization and development of the collection's presentation boards for the showrooms.
05/2009-06/2010: Musani srl, Junior Designer - Milan IT
- Collection development
- Fitting
- Product development
- Styling
05/2008-03/2009: Numa Playground, Freelance Designer - Milan IT
- Conceptualization and development of the graphics for a new apparel brand.
- Conceptualization, development and manufacture of the brand’s trademark embroidered symbol.
- Creation of merchandising graphics for other clients.
- Label design.
04-05/2008: Muse Magazine, Production Assistant- Milan IT
- Contact talent agencies.
- Research and contact photo locations.
- Contact press office.
02/2008: 10 Corso Como, Sales Associate - Milan IT
06/2006: non-profit association Care Blair Designs, Freelance Designer - Muskoka CA
- Design of logo and postcard for their first children's collection
05-08/2003: Dillards Inc., Customer Service Associate - Naples US
education
Design
04-10/2012: The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design - E-course
09-2011 - 04-2012: Textile Design and Knitwear Techniques, Textile Support - Pavia IT
2008-2010: Creative Portfolio in Textile Design, Central Saint Martins College - London UK
2008-2010: Draping Womenswear Design, Central Saint Martins College - London UK
09-12/2008: Men’s Haute Couture Tailoring Course, SIAM - Milan IT
2005-2008: BA Fashion & Textile Design, NABA - Milan IT
2002-2006: BA Industrial Design (8/10 terms completed), Universidad de los Andes - Bogota CO
Other
09-11 to date: German Language, Lingue in Comune - Milan IT
2001-2002: Italian Language, Società Dante Alighieri - Bogotá, COL
04-10/2012: The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design - E-course
09-2011 - 04-2012: Textile Design and Knitwear Techniques, Textile Support - Pavia IT
2008-2010: Creative Portfolio in Textile Design, Central Saint Martins College - London UK
2008-2010: Draping Womenswear Design, Central Saint Martins College - London UK
09-12/2008: Men’s Haute Couture Tailoring Course, SIAM - Milan IT
2005-2008: BA Fashion & Textile Design, NABA - Milan IT
2002-2006: BA Industrial Design (8/10 terms completed), Universidad de los Andes - Bogota CO
Other
09-11 to date: German Language, Lingue in Comune - Milan IT
2001-2002: Italian Language, Società Dante Alighieri - Bogotá, COL
strengths and skills
- Ability to interpret client requirements and create designs that pinpoints their target market.
- Strong sense of aesthetic: understanding of color and detail, balance and proportion, shape and volume.
- Pattern design: realization of handmade repeats or with the use of Illustration and/or Photoshop.
- Textile design: mastery in the manual techniques of dyeing and printing. Knowledge of basic hand and machine knitting.
- Fashion design: Understanding of the garment design and manufacturing process; from the garment conceptualization stage, through the pattern-drafting phase, fitting process until the final prototype.
- Good knowledge of materials and ability to choose the best match between garment design and fabric.
- Apparel construction knowledge: sewing and patternmaking skills.
- Draping skills.
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
- Team-oriented, assertive, motivated self-starter.
- Passionate about work, enthusiast and flexible.
- Autonomous, result oriented and quality driven.
- Intellectually curious, dynamic, and quick and eager learner.
- Great language skills and design software knowledge.
language skills
- Spanish (native)
- English (bilingual)
- Italian (fluent written and oral)
- German (elementary knowledge and use)
software skills
- Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash
- Macromedia Freehand, CorelDraw
- Quark Xpress
- MOffice
- OS: Mac OS X, Windows
Copyright © 2010-2014. All designs belong to Maria Jose Bautista V. Please do not use without permission.
