Footwear Designer
Footwear Designer
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Job Description
Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections..
Top 19 specific things you need to know
As a Footwear Designer, you will need to master following:
- analyse types of footwear
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- create mood boards
- create patterns for footwear
- create technical sketches for footwear
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop footwear collection
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear components
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- implement footwear marketing plan
- last types
- pattern grading
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- work in textile manufacturing teams
Top 6 general things you need to know
More generally, a footwear designer is also versed in:
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent footwear designer
Top employers for this job
Footwear Designer (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
Full Time
Urgent
Private
- Keywords :
- Ui designer,
- developer
