Jody Chapman: Freelance Design Consultant in West Hollywood, CA

Freelance Graphic and Apparel Designer - Creative direction and for all aspects of graphic design (social media, websites, logos, etc.) - Development of graphic logos, digital brand elements, graphic design and website design - Inspiring content creation for website development - Create technical CAD drawings for apparel market monthly - Responsible for delivering trend, color, and print direction per season - Research market trends and identifies key needs for each client - Responsible from creating and curating trend right designs seasonally - Responsible for managing overseas fabric and trim development per season - Manages in-house pattern making and sample sewing teams - Provide weekly competitive shopping market research - Report pre-production cost analysis to production - Provide styling direction for photo shoots

- Senior level leader responsible for the development, growth, and management of the design team and brand - Responsible for creating and managing monthly elevated collections for the junior /young contemporary markets ? - Successfully sold high volume units to big box retailers bringing in over 50 million in revenue - Creatively curates monthly and seasonal trend / print direction for design team ? - Merchandise fashion forward collections for monthly presentations to numerous buying teams - Gave trend & style presentations to buying teams monthly - Collaborate with sales to creatively meet client needs and produces best ?sellers ? - Develop and sourced innovative fabric and trims with domestic and overseas - Mentor and manage a driven design team and sample room

- Design team leadership and management, responsible for promoting individual growth of team members - Responsible for designing and executing fashion forward garments for targeted markets monthly ? - Management of design and development for major retailers and specialty store both international and domestic - Develop new private label accounts into a profitable and responsible for the growth ?of existing business ? - - Create seasonal and monthly trend direction and color stories ? - - Market research analysis and competitive shopping ? - - Work with technical team and pre-production in approval process ? - - Weekly fabric and trim sourcing with domestic and overseas vendors ? - - Merchandising and product placement with color, graphics, and print direction ?