Designer. Color – Fashion & Apparel Client (New York, New York)
Scope – 4-Month w2 Contract with potential to extend or convert, includes options for medical, dental, and vision benefits and holiday pay.
Hourly Rate Range: $38.50 to $41.50
Full-time, 40 hours per week, Onsite
Overview
Support teams in creation and execution of seasonal color palettes.
Maintain and update Color Library Inventory, and develop new color standards as needed
DAY TO DAY
Collaborate with Concept and Design to create seasonal color palettes
Match color inspiration retail samples,
Create digital color palettes in Adobe Illustrator and Miro
Finalize color elections (70-120 colors), distribute internally to cross functional partners and externally to global agents, vendors, factories, and mills
Assess inventory for each elected color. Communicate with color service partners to develop new color standards and update library archive and color wall
Digital color management. Use IQC software/Spectrophotometer- color data to inform Centric, GIS and CAD teams
Add seasonal color palettes to Centric/PLM system
Upon request, advise CAD & PD teams, on lab dip comments, strikeoff reviews and CAD color calibration
Provide Pantone matches to the Client's Standards as needed
Qualifications
Whiz at alphabetizing and filing swatch libraries
MS Excel, facility with spreadsheets
Adobe Illustrator basic knowledge including digital swatch creation
Color acuity, with minimum score of “Superior Discrimination” on Farnsworth Munsell hue 100 test.
Fluent with IQC color software and spectrophotometer
Detail oriented with keen focus
