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Senior Product Designer / Textile Artist

Creative & Design

Born and raised in San Diego, I have an absolute passion for creating unique and beautiful designs that invoke the feeling of nature, community and culture, while offering a fresh and authentic perspective of California Culture. I can gracefully wear "many hats" of work requirements while maintaining an organized and on-time work flow. Apparel and Graphic Design has been my career focus for over the past 16 years while I also grew my marketing and sales ability as I truly enjoy teamwork across multiple brand platforms. 

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Create original and unique textile designs focused on apparel, swimwear, active wear and home goods. As a lifelong artist, I am absolutely passionate about creating prints and textile designs that are timeless, interesting and reflective my world travels and experiences. I have worked with many companies such as RVCA, Slowtide, Reef, Roark, Roxy, Neff, Speedo, Bad Birdie, Perry Ellis NYC, Todd Snyder, Party Pants, IPD, Body Glove, Ogio, Jolyn Swim, Red Bull, Birdwell Britches and many more.

Textile Artist

Lead the creative process from concept to completion of all categories ranging from straw lifeguard hats, snapback caps, bucket hats and handmade premium straw. Compile global trend forecast presentations focused on style, color, materials and silhouette to guide the creative direction of product and brand image. Direct and collaborate with our global artist network to insure a dynamic assortment of thought provoking and story-telling patterns. Create compelling and original prints derived from a range of mixed mediums, produced as repeat or engineered layout, color separations and pitch sheets formatted for sublimation rollers and mill specs. Provide marketing department with creative assets, email blast flyers, website banners, ecommerce formatting and provide seasonal catalogs for both digital and print. 

Responsible for conceptual design to final production of all cut-and-sew categories, leading color, trend, textile, print and creative direction for Mens Apparel program. Responsible for bi-weekly collaborations with Marketing to support online story telling and seasonal capsules. Assisted the global sales team by traveling world wide to present the global apparel line at sales meeting and tradeshows. Created original designs, prints, graphics and creative direction with a strong connection to story-telling and connecting the consumer to the brand on an emotional level. 

Senior Apparel Designer

Responsible for designing, managing and creating boardshort and hybrid short designs that achieve margin goals while maintaining brand heritage. Created seasonal trims, hangtags and branding, while managing and updating seasonal tech packs.

Boardshort Designer

Lead designer responsible for creating unique and original boardshort, walkshort and t-shirt designs to support the global range.

Apparel Designer

Conceptualized and developed seasonal apparel lines for both men & juniors, while leading a wide range of design projects and needs.

Apparel / Graphic Designer

Managed a large staff at a premium boardshop with a strong emphasis on visual merchandising of products and hardgoods.

Assistant Manager / Visual Merchandiser 

Troy Kingman is a Senior Product Designer / Textile Artist at Self Employeed in Encinitas, CA.

Troy Kingman

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