Trainee Fashion Graphic Designer

Prefered skills

Fashion, Sourcing, Apparel, Product Design, Negotiation, Leadership, Budgeting, Construction, Product Analysis, Commercial Awareness

Job description

Join South Africas leading fashion retailer and become part of a winning team. If fashion retail excites you, along with a fast paced and innovative environment, then this position may well be for you. With over 700 stores, renowned aspirational brands and world class systems we are regarded as front-runners in this highly competitive environment.

Being creative is your game; you thrive on designing original artworks and branding in line with fashion trend. Keeping up to date with the latest graphics and print direction shown on the catwalks, tradeshows and key influencing brands is what drives you. In this role you will work closely with Buyers; Fashion Designers; Manufacturers; Printers and Mills to create fashionable prints that reflect each brands unique DNA. This opportunity is based at our Head Office in Cape Town.

Key Responsibilities:
To design placement graphics, branding and all over prints for a variety of fabric types and garment styles
Research print and fashion trends internationally and locally to determine key new direction in prints and graphics.
Advise Buyers and Designers on how to interpret the latest trends into fashionable graphics for the South African market
Be involved in preparing graphics and prints for production from a technical perspective

Qualifications and Experience:
Graphic Design, Surface/textile design, Fashion Design or a related qualification
Technical ability to design graphics for fashion garments and fabrics
A basic understanding of various print techniques e.g. Screen prints, digital prints
Knowledgeable and up to date on the latest branding and graphics for the season
Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign

* Attach portfolio of evidence upon application
CompetenciesBeing involved and hands on with suggestions for styling details, branding and graphics

Using computer aided design work as well as freehand sketching on programs such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, etc.

Truworths is committed to transformation and meeting objectives of the Employment Equity Act. Meeting our employment equity goals and targets will be taken into account in our recruitment decisions. People living with disabilities will be viewed favourably.