Everett Bloom: Designer in Orange County, CA

A.A.S. is a design and marketing studio providing support to clients in need of design and marketing solutions while maintaining and creating for in-house brand, La Familia. • Create, maintain and update tech packs, CADs and line sheets. • Organize project and asset libraries. • Research market trends to create inspiration and mood boards for current and upcoming seasons. • Communicate with domestic and overseas production teams throughout all stages of development and production. • Design graphics for printables, cut & sew, social and web. • Photography, post processing, retouching and edits. • Collaborate with all department teams and leaders to create campaigns for La Familia, Rue21, Asphalt, Tilly’s, Zumiez, Fight Camp and more. • Responsible for creating and developing multiple best-selling styles in screens and embroidery that elevated us to being the top vendor in several categories including specialty tops, key items and junior graphics. • Travel to other company’s offices to collaborate and present design and marketing plans with buyers and other department heads.

• Work under direction of other designers, developers and design director. • Completed SMU requests for major companies and vendors such as Tilly's, Zumiez, LIDS, etc. • Creative freedom to design accessories and head wear. This includes sketches in Illustrator, colorways, pitch sheets, construction details, trims and tech pages. • Assisting with apparel design for all brands including etnies, Emerica, eS and Altamont. • Quickly became familiarized with EPLM/NGC (in house system) to upload tech packs and make corrections to existing tech packs. • Assisted in the effort of rebranding Altamont Apparel. Helped create new trims and sock headers that will be used in the Spring 2017 collection. • Help with uploading logos and graphics for placement and resizing on all categories of garments. • Created entire Baja Collection for Emerica, which consisted of Baja SS woven, Baja straw hat and Baja poncho. • Responsible for ensuring trims and logos were accurate in size, spelling and placement