Fashion

Lifestyle

Streetwear

My goal is to design engaging and marketable textile product assortments using print design, CAD, merchandising, trend research, and a strong knowledge of textile manufacturing (mostly wovens, printing, and dyeing).

-Design and develop original textile artworks (graphic trims, repeating patterns, silkscreen placement prints, embroidery, weaving) and color palettes for all D2C product 
-Collaborated creatively with designers from recognized brands such as Crocs, Sony Music/The Beatles, Peanuts, and Warner Bros. 
-Created and implemented seasonal print design concepts for streetwear collaboration drops in alignment with the Hedley & Bennett brand
-Weekly collaboration with Production, Product Development, and Marketing teams
-Engaged the marketing team in the product design process to create an effective storytelling-based product launch
-Created customer-focused surveys to include customer-centricity in the design process

Print Designer

-Designed and developed original jacquard upholstery and printed wall coverings collections using CAD, textile structures, pattern, color, and texture
-Sold original textile collections to interior designers and upholstery jobbers
-Managed sample production schedule

Studio Designer

-Researched FA 21 fashion/lifestyle consumer trends
-Created color inspiration decks for all sweaters and pants categories 
-Maintained color excellence throughout the design and development process
-Colored SKUs for production

Associate Color Designer

-Created original artwork for printed, knitted, and woven interior textile products
-Supported Senior Designer with textile assortments 
-Researched and presented interior design trends
-R+D for knitted throws 
-Graphic to jacquard translation/development

Assistant Textile Designer

-Assisted inline Color Developers with lab dip approvals, vendor communication, and meetings with designers
-Researched and presented alternative industrial textile dyeing methods with fellow Color Design Intern
-Lead a one-hour informational course on fiber and dye science to the entire Color Development team at NIKE WHQ

Color Developer Intern

-Designed original jacquard woven upholstery fabric for Wesley Mancini Home Fabrics and AlFresco Outdoor Fabrics. 
-Consolidated and organized the studio's print artwork archive and yarn bank.

Jacquard Design Intern

-Apprenticed under master silk screen printers and world-renowned contemporary artists (Kiki Smith, Anne Hamilton) 
-Designed original hand-separated and painted, multi-color, repeating print for textile yardage
-Set up looms in the museum gallery for Sonya Clark:  Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know

See the Museum website here:  https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/

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Ben Jones is a Print Designer at Hedley & Bennett in Los Angeles, CA. View their experience, skills and work history on Malakye — the professional network for…

Ben Jones — Print Designer at Hedley & Bennett

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Jefferson University

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts