Color Designer Job Description
Color Designer Duties & Responsibilities
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Color Designer Qualifications
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Education for Color Designer
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Employers hiring for the color designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Design, Industrial, Education, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Fashion, Fine Arts, Textiles, Textile Design, Fashion Design
Skills for Color Designer
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Color Designer Examples
Color Designer Job Description
- In combination with color, apply materials and create detailed CADs for development
- Consistently produce concepts, participate in creative brainstorms follow creative direction to reach the desired design objectives
- Ensure effective communication with Marketing and Development on assigned products
- Research worldwide marketplace and interpret consumer and market needs as they relate to product category(s) to gain thorough understanding of customer/product requirements
- Includes researching materials, components, understanding of color, and design concepts and collecting feedback from customers, consumers, and sales representatives
- Travel for consumer/product research as approved by Columbia senior management
- Competitive Response
- Discerning eye for Product, Retail Awareness Key Competitor knowledge
- Quick-strike, tactical response
- Generate multiple, unique material-way concepts per model that address critical functional, aesthetic, and business goals on a seasonal basis
- Sound communication and analytical skills to effectively collaborate and communicate with Design, Buying and Production Teams vendors
- Displays an understanding of the process and works to protect both efficiency and quality
- Research and color trend forecasting
- Research color trends as it relates to Knit and Casual Knits
- Learns from mistakes quickly
- Asks questions to confirm understanding, probe for clarity
Color Designer Job Description
- Execute both leather and non-leather material-ways for Trail and Casual collections
- Projects include new in-line and special-make product, kids, and update carry over styles
- Dimensionalize product through materialization
- Communicate concepts to team mates, visually and verbally, by using conventional and digital tools
- Effectively realize useable materials palettes within timeline and budgetary constraints
- Effective materials solutions should be recognized as excellent examples of cost/value within the respective price-points
- Refine collections through materialization in conjunction with leadership, Merchandiser(s) Design, and Product Development, in order to optimize functional performance, fit, comfort, and manufacturability
- Work within target prices as much as possible
- The ability to realize commercially-relevant, quality results within budgetary constraints is critical
- Finalized product material-way solutions should demonstrate a very high degree of market awareness, trend relevance, functional excellence, aesthetic refinement
- Merchant vendor knowledge
- Requires a bachelor’s degree in design or a related field
- Prefer 1 - 3 years in product creation with an emphasis on footwear preferred
- Thorough knowledge of computer design software the talent and ability to perform free hand drawings
- Thorough knowledge of Excel, Word, and related business software
- Thorough knowledge of footwear product, materials and production techniques
Color Designer Job Description
- Works with the leaders in buying and design to implement focused, innovative color stories and strategies
- Collaborate with Director’s and color team to craft strategic color palettes and category palettes
- Management of color development for categories through supply chain
- Management of color tools, category palettes and development of dyed color tools for categories
- Designers are required to maintain an awareness of developments in related fields, furniture, fashion, architecture design, and apply that knowledge to automotive design
- Remains cognizant of developments within of the related industrial fields to incorporate innovation and technical advantages into current and future product programs
- Design, develop strategy and implement color, material and finish solutions for multiple brands of home appliances
- Support the development and visualization of brand experience
- Forecast and analyze color, material and finish trends for regional and global products
- Understand and communicate home interior color, finish and material trends
- Frequent writing of highly technical material requires a thorough understanding of the work, and the ability to clearly express complex concepts in written form
- Troubleshoot, design, perform college level mathematics, coordinate and perform special task/projects simultaneously, make decisions, operate independently and with discretion, and work effectively under pressure
- Training skills are required when working with prototype production operations
- Superior knowledge of textile technology including dyeing and finishing
- Demonstrate an understanding of the supply chain activities and logistics associated with the delivery of finished product
- Clear POV and knowledge of fashion and trends to use in implementing color ideas and selections
Color Designer Job Description
- Produce high quality renderings to effectively illustrate CMF solutions
- Collaborate with other design disciplines (globally and regionally), product marketing, development, and vendors to execute on overall project objectives, deliverables, and timelines
- Create, maintain and communicate CMF strategy documents
- Contribute to the maintenance of the CMF library
- Build and maintain relationships with business partners throughout the corporation
- Mentor and lead junior staff
- Develop and design surface materials (graphics, color, trims, textiles and grains) for visible surfaces and parts through sketches or 3D images
- Support the creation of industry leading and highly desirable color, material and finish solutions that elevate the brand experience
- Support the strategy and implementation of color, material and finish solutions for multiple brands of home appliances
- Forecast and analyze color, material and finish trends
- Strong communication and analytical skills to effectively collaborate and communicate with Design, Buying and Production Teams vendors
- Demonstrated ability to lead, and develop a team members
- Strong knowledge of trends, target market demands, customer, brand objectives and design aesthetic
- Research color trend, forecasting for apparel division
- Displays an understanding of the customer and can speak to this in relation to color
- Works across all levels of product and design organization with the sole focus on seeking alignment and ensuring impact of Color across apparel division
Color Designer Job Description
- Present and communicate color direction and strategy to a wide audience
- Collaborate with other design disciplines, product marketing, engineering, and vendors to execute on project objectives, deliverables, and timelines
- Maintain and communicate CMF strategy documents
- Visualize CFM designs through renderings and model making
- Contribute to the maintenance of the CMF library and showroom
- Co-ordinate material development with the in house development team, sourcing, and suppliers
- Execute all phases of color and material development- from initial trend research, to concept development and refinement, and through mass production
- Work cross functionally with industrial designers, UX/UI designers, engineers, and manufacturing partners
- Keen eye for color and material trends
- Conduct trend and market research and analysis
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree specializing in Color and Materials Design, industrial/footwear/apparel design, interior design, Materials design, or related field
- Six plus years design/development experience in industry with progressively responsible experience for category creativity, development, and design
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Fine Arts or equivalent with specialization in
- Digital capabilities in modeling and rendering (Alias, VRED)
- Current on color and material finishes
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Fine Arts with specialization in fashion, textiles or related field