The Role
The Catalog Designer creates production-ready CADs and flat sketches, ensuring technical accuracy and compliance with specifications for apparel designs.
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Role Overview
We're looking for an experienced and highly detail-oriented Catalog Designer to transform design concepts and complex product specifications into accurate, production-ready technical drawings (CADs) for our catalogs. This role requires exceptional proficiency in technical apparel design, with a strong focus on meeting the high-precision requirements for major retailers like QVC.
Key Responsibilities- Develop Technical Packages: Create highly detailed, accurate, and complex CADs (Computer-Aided Designs) and flat sketches for a wide range of apparel (e.g., utility dresses, complicated knits), ensuring all drawings reflect precise dimensions, construction details, and material call-outs.
- Master Complex CADs: Efficiently handle intricate technical drawings, demonstrating mastery of features like multiple functional pockets, zippers, roll tabs, and multi-layered details, mirroring the complexity of items.
- Technical Accuracy & Proportion: Utilize the provided standard to ensure all sketches and CADs are proportionally accurate and correctly represent bodily measurements.
- Design Translation: Interpret initial design inspiration and translate it into clean, standardized, and production-ready flat sketches and technical drawings, understanding the transformation process.
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Document, maintain, and enforce technical design standards, file organization protocols, and best practices to ensure consistency across the team.
- Collaboration & Quality Control: Manage multiple revisions efficiently, maintaining file organization and ensuring all technical documentation is clear, complete, and error-free before submission to production.
- 2+ years of professional experience as a Technical Designer, CAD Designer, or Catalog Designer in the apparel or fashion industry.
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Illustrator for creating highly detailed and complex technical flats and CADs.
- Proven ability to work with precise measurements and proportions in a technical design context.
- Strong understanding of garment construction, pattern-making principles, and fit.
- Experience designing for e-commerce platforms or Wholesale clothing brands
- Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage a high-volume workload and meet tight deadlines.
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Skills Required
- 2+ years of professional experience as a Technical Designer, CAD Designer, or Catalog Designer in the apparel or fashion industry.
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Illustrator for creating highly detailed and complex technical flats and CADs.
- Proven ability to work with precise measurements and proportions in a technical design context.
- Strong understanding of garment construction, pattern-making principles, and fit.
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The Company
What We Do
Custom Apparel - Screen Printing - Embroidery - Greek Goods Fresh Prints provides custom apparel and promotional products to Student Groups, Greek Organizations, University Administrations, Intramural Teams, and Individuals with localized sales managers and a growing network of referrals.
