Graphic Design - Fashion / Textiles

Overview

Are you a visionary designer ready to leave your mark on a globally recognized brand? This is your chance to shape the aesthetic of products that reach millions worldwide, working with a market leader known for its innovative school supplies, lifestyle products, stationery, and gifts. Partnering with Aquent, you will join a dynamic, growth-focused environment where your creativity will directly influence product lines, drive trends, and delight customers across an expansive global retail footprint and distribution network. This is more than a design role; it’s an opportunity to define style and impact culture.

About Our Client

Partnering with Aquent, you will join a globally recognized market leader within the vibrant school supplies, lifestyle products, stationery, and gifts sector. This organization boasts an extensive retail presence and rapidly expanding wholesale and distribution partnerships worldwide, cultivating a dynamic, growth-focused environment. They are deeply committed to fostering career development and innovation, offering you a platform to thrive and make a tangible difference.

About the Opportunity

Step into a pivotal design role where your creative vision will directly influence product development from concept to launch! We are seeking a talented designer to infuse a fresh, fashion-forward perspective into exciting product ranges. You will be instrumental in translating cutting-edge trends into tangible, covetable products, collaborating closely with internal teams to bring innovative concepts to life. This hands-on position empowers you to craft original prints, patterns, illustrations, and packaging, designing cohesive product ranges and capsules that resonate deeply with the brand’s distinct aesthetic and captivate a key market segment. Your work will not just be seen; it will be experienced by countless customers, shaping their everyday lives and defining moments, making a direct impact on culture and style.

Your Impact and Responsibilities

• Translate fashion trends, mood boards, and creative direction into innovative, commercially relevant product solutions tailored to the Tween market.
• Develop original prints, yardages, illustrations, graphics, and artwork across accessories, lifestyle, and back-to-school product categories and packaging.
• Design cohesive product ranges, collections, and capsules that tell a compelling story.
• Create detailed product specifications and supplier-ready finished artwork across a variety of products and packaging formats.
• Curate colour palettes, materials, prints, patterns, and finishes to deliver elevated product lines that set trends.
• Collaborate closely with designers and product developers to ensure all designs remain on-trend, fashion-forward, on-brand, and within production timelines and budgets.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Midweight–Senior level experience in fashion, accessories, lifestyle, multi-product design, or packaging.
• Strong fashion-led design sensibility with a clear understanding of the Tween customer and contemporary youth culture.
• Proven track record of developing cohesive product ranges and collections rather than standalone items.
• Exceptional illustration, print, and yardage design skills, backed by a portfolio demonstrating strong command over colour, materials, and finishes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate trends and creative direction into commercially successful product designs.
• Hands-on experience developing product specifications and production-ready finished artwork.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator is essential.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance creative vision against customer expectations and price points.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience in trend forecasting.