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Freelance Apparel Designer

Fashion & Apparel

I am an Apparel Designer with a diverse background. I have 7+ years of Apparel Design experience in the Outdoor Industry with Sherpa Adventure Gear. I have also held Product Development positions at Columbia Sportswear and Black Diamond Equipment. Though I am a Designer in my heart, this PDEV experience has given me insights that help me work well with cross-functional team members to reduce PDEV burden, expedite the proto process, and reduce waste in both material, time, and overall costs.

To go along with my Bachelors degree in Apparel Design and Merchandising Management, I also recently earned my MBA and was named the 2019 Graduate of the Year in my program. This have given me a business acumen that helps drive brand initiatives and understand the higher-level perspectives of brands. It has also allowed my to appreciate pre-design research in my design process. I know have the abilities to properly segment a market, conduct consumer focus groups and gain key market insights. Not only does this make me stronger as a Designer, but as a Product Manager as well.

My design work focuses on mixing technical requirements (features and materials) with a fashion/lifestyle appeal. I also emphasis dimensionality and providing the consumer with a "purpose for their purchase."

See my work at drewrunberg.com

I deliver designs a fully populated tech packs that are factory-ready for P1. This greatly reduces the PDEV burden on my brand partners and streamlines the proto process.

I specialize in telling brand and consumer stories as well as mixing technical design features/materials with lifestyle/fashion appeal. I also do a lot of front-end research prior to the design process to best understand the brand, its consumers and the best opportunities to satisfy both through my designs.

-Fully designed and developed technical alpine climbing and mountain-use lifestyle collections for both Men's and Women's

-Traveled around the U.S. conducting consumer focus groups, pre-lining, and building customer relationships to promote sell-in and gain market insights

-Attend Outdoor Retailer, ISPO, GOA and other trade shows to show the line to key accounts and to source materials for apparel line

-Took part in trim development, fit sessions, color palette selection, fabric selection, trend analysis, lineplan creation CCLP updates, workbook illustrations and more.

Apparel Designer

-Update tech sketches throughout the development process
-Managed bill of materials
-Drew 3D renderings in Browzwear to reduce prototypes and improve Sales presentation

Technical Specialist

Find out detailed information about Drew Runberg, Freelance Apparel Designer in Beaverton, OR

Drew Runberg: Freelance Apparel Designer in Beaverton, OR

Drew Runberg

Sherpa Adventure Gear and Sportsman Gear

Sherpa Adventure Gear

Columbia Sportswear, Inc.

Sherpa Adventure Gear

Concordia University - Portland

Oregon State University