Everett Bloom: Designer in Orange County, CA
Everett Bloom

Designer
Orange County | United States
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Skateboarding
Photography
Art
Skate culture
All areas of design
Adobe suite
Industries
Lifestyle
Outdoor
Skate
Work experience
Alone Again Studio
Designer | 06/2018 - Current
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.

AYC Brand Group
Designer | 08/2016 - 06/2018
• Collaborate with all teams to research trends and build theme and concept boards
for all seasonal collections.
• Created cut and sew garments, tech packs, embroidery and graphics for in house brands as well SMU and private label for retailers including Tilly’s (Blue Crown/RSQ, Zumiez, PacSun, San Onofre Surf co., ROSS and Karmaloop.
• Assist in product and lifestyle photos for web and social media.
• Responsible for implementing La Familia SMU screen hoodies program at Tilly’s which resulted in the brand being a top seller in all Tilly’s chains.
• Organized project assets and libraries to improve organization and optimize workflow.
Sole Technology, INC.
Jr. Apparel Designer | 09/2015 - 02/2016
• 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

Volcom
Volcom - Mens' Development and Design Intern - Fall 2014 | 09/2014 - 12/2014
• Hands on industry experience.
• Worked closely with designers/developers in knits/wovens, denim, fleece/walk-shorts, boardshorts/surfwear and youth.
• Gained knowledge of in-house systems such as Excel, Full-Circle and PLM. Used these systems to print specs, upload garment pictures, update booking reports, input care label codes, adjust BOM's and verify inventory.
• Attended garment fittings of all stages of protype to sealing sample to see what changes need to be made.
• Assisted in making changes to flats in Adobe Illustrator.
• Meticulously reviewed samples in order updated tech packs.
• Organized clothing into designer's racks by season and style.
• Organized swatches, strike offs and pitch sheets in file boxes and on server.
• Updated/proofed catalogs with purchase orders, overseas shipping ETA/ETD, colorways, sizes fabric contents and wholesale/MSRP.
• Completely reorganized storage closet into organized, manageable sections