It's not about how long it takes. It's about what it costs you. All projects and collections have a cyclical flow to them. Research > moodboard > design > development > production. And all designers have fa favorite part of this cycle. But even the designers who favor...
If any of these sound familiar, your workflow is costing you more than you think. Most freelance fashion designers don't realize their workflow is inefficient. They just know they're tired at the end of the day and feel like they never quite catch up on that...
I wasn't undercharging. My workflow was undercutting me. It always happened pretty much the same. I’d have a discovery call with a potential client. We would feel we were a match to work together and then they would ask my price. I’d typically break out in...
The results were more surprising than I expected. I built Tech Pack Wizard to help designers gain back more control of their time. But I wanted to know the exact numbers, not a rough guess. So I decided to do a timed experiment with controlled conditions. I pre-planned...
It’s not just slowing you down. It’s stressing you out. We've all been there. A client comes back with a change and this causes a domino effect of tasks that never seem to be linear. You hop into Adobe Illustrator to start updating the sketch, which...
Discover how to build a thriving freelance fashion design career. Learn how to find clients, set your rates, overcome imposter syndrome, and streamline your workflow with Tech Pack Wizard — so you can get paid faster and stress less....
Working as a fashion freelancer, we’re used to wearing many hats. We pitch our services to potential clients, run social media, think about SEO, do (avoid?) admin tasks, manage our schedules and oh yeah, do our actual job of designing and creating tech packs. With our...
Learn how fashion designers can speed up flat sketching with Adobe Illustrator Symbols and Graphic Styles. Save time, stay consistent, and create tech packs faster with these pro tips from Tech Pack Wizard....
Learn how to create seamless trims, stitching, and ruffle brushes in Adobe Illustrator with this step-by-step tutorial for fashion designers. Plus — discover how the Tech Pack Wizard plugin makes it even easier with preloaded brushes built in....
When you mention "fashion design," many envision someone clad in all black, perhaps sporting artsy round glasses and a high turtleneck, sketching stunning yet somewhat impractical fashion illustrations in their perfectly disheveled studio. However, the reality for most fashion designers is far from that, especially those...