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 the Client

Our client stands as a globally recognized market leader within the vibrant school supplies, lifestyle products, stationery, and gifts sector. With an extensive retail presence and rapidly expanding wholesale and distribution partnerships worldwide, they cultivate a dynamic, growth-focused environment. This exceptional workplace is 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 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.

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.