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...
POM stands for Points of Measure and is a term that gets thrown around often in technical apparel design. Essentially, the POM Sketch shows how to measure the garment and is sometimes appropriately referred to as the “How To Measure Sketch”. The POM sketch is your flat...
When starting a fashion brand, one of the first things you need to decide is what size range you will offer. Size 0 to plus size? Or something in between? And how do you determine what size range to offer? This can be a difficult decision, but it's...
Maybe you’re like me and have known from a young age that you wanted to be a fashion designer. Looking at the glossy pages in magazines of glamorous people styled impeccably in the latest designer styles. Admiring the intricate details and knowing that one day you want...
From the fun inspiration stage where the designer observes and interprets trends in the world, to the moodboard phase where that research is compiled into a concise direction for the collection. And eventually to how these ideas are developed into design concepts specific to the target...
We all know the basics of the design process in fashion, or at least what we’ve picked up from movies and shows like Project Runway. Although, the Fashion design production process is not all fabric stores and late sewing nights as these shows might lead...