Matilda Linde Dellrud
+4531496994
matilda.dellrud_gmail.com
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Key skills:
Design/Technical Skills
•Skilled in use of Photoshop and Illustrator.
•Very creative and good at idea generating.
•Frequent user of trend research and trend prediction tools.
•Excellent textile and leather knowledge.
•Very good understanding of technology.
•Strong sense of colour.
•Eye for details.
Team Work
•Worked successfully as member of a team throughout education and work.
•Ability to inspire others to perform their best.
Communication
•Excellent verbal and written skills.
•With numerous years abroad I have accumulated experience in intercultural work and communication.
Work experience/Internship:
04.2011- (present) ECCO sko A/S
Design Assistant
•Support the Design team in designing and developing comprehensive footwear ranges, ensuring that the product and ranges reflect the current market and ECCOs customers.
•Researching colour trends & Creating colour samples.
•Responsible for ordering and coordinating leathers, textiles and non-textile components for collections and prototypes.
•Provide advice of initial footwear samples, ensuring that manufactured footwear match initial material and colour specifications.
•Undertake Market research to identify the latest trends and ECCOs competitors ranges.
•Research, update and feedback information on trends, colour and fabric from catwalk and directional shop information to buyer and team.
•Undertake factory visits and travel together with the design team to in Portugal, 4 times per year.
•Attend Trade and Trend Shows, feeding information back to both the Design and the Buying teams and competitive shopping trips and feedback to the Buying and Design teams.
•Occasionally attend fit meetings to ensure the look, fit, shape and quality of the footwear is correct.
09.2008-06.2010 Baby Björn Sweden
Designer
•Designing a new type of baby carrier for premature babies.
•Collaboration with Baby Björn AB and their paediatric expertise (MD, professors).
•Baby Björn AB has patented the design resulting from our project.
•It was a very technical project, with a lot of emphasis laid on creating a microclimate for the babies, usability and comfort.
2006-2010 Mando Design
•Freelance Design & Illustration
•Childrens book illustration.
•Graphic design work for Disabilities association cooperation, Gnesta, Sweden.
•Design and production of textile accessories and swimwear.
06-09.2006 Internship with Brink-textiles, Borås, Sweden
•Textile print designer
oGreater insight in the textile manufacturing process.
Education:
2009-2010 Heriot-Watt University, Scottish Borders Campus, UK
Fashion and Textile Innovation
Master of Arts with a major in Smart Textiles for footwear
•Technical and visual design.
•Defined new areas to research.
•Research worldwide marketplace.
•Researched and proposed smart materials and wearable technology for footwear.
2006-2009 Swedish school of Textile, Borås, Sweden
Textile Design
Bachelor of Arts with a major in Textile Product Design
•Contains expressions of textile from aesthetic, functional, environmental, economical and technical aspects. With the purpose of developing textiles for the future everyday use.
•Ability to develop creativity, expression, technical knowledge, marketing intelligence and entrepreneurship is major elements in the course.
•Weaving technology, industrial weaving, hand weaving, knitting technology, colour and form knowledge, printing, colouring.
2008 University of Wales, Newport, Wales
Smart Clothing and Wearable Technology
•Interdisciplinary design training for smart clothes and wearable technology.
•Including design, pattern design and cutting for movement.
2008 University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Textile art and design
•Industrial weaving, sculptural weaving, print design and spatial design.
•Exchange year.
2005-2006 School of Design and Crafts, Steneby, Gothenburg, Sweden
Textile-Garment-Design
Part of BA Programme in Textile and garment design
•Pattern cutting, pattern design, sawing, sketching, creative work methods, embroidery, design history, art theory and live drawing.
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