Hayley Swaffield Email & Phone Number

Working on a wide range of products from research to design tosampling and development to final product and everything inbetween. Golden Bear are a toy company working on plush andplastic products mainly for preschool age children with licenses suchas Bing, In The Night Garden and Hey Duggee. My role includesdesign, development and initial sampling.

Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom

Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom

Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Due to the global pandemic, I found myself redundant from myprevious role and wanted to create a business with my previoussewing skills and something to help others, so I set up an Esty shopof homemade facemasks.- Setting up my own brand of handmade reusable items; Designing, Marketing, Manufacturing & Dispatching.- Hitting 2000 sales and producing over.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Working on a variety of accounts with brands such as Ted Baker, Debenhams, M&S and Matalan, with a variety of ages ranges from newborn to teen.
• Creating trend led, commercial designs & graphics for the global childrenswear market.
• Carrying out trend research & reports, creating technical CAD specification packs and artwork files.
• Working closely with merchandisers, garment techs and account managers from design development through to order stage all to a critical path deadline, while communicating with the sample room in China and sourcing.

Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom

• Working with a variety of clients to design and develop commercial apparel sportswear.
• Aiding with developing a unique brand identity and assisting the process of brand creation for start-ups.
• Identifying the latest trends and modern technologies and translating into commercial designs.
• Carrying out trend research, creating technical specification packs, samples and original pattern work.
• Sourcing fabrics, trims and manufacturers.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Apparel design assistant for the urban high performance sportswear brand Saysky, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Daily tasks included; Concept development, design sketching, fabric research, graphic artwork, pattern creation, creation of technical packs, quality control, product development, processing orders and product photography.

Germany

• Heartbeat Sports - Teamsports (Rugby, Handball & Volleyball)
• Designed and developed creative solutions to concepts within a range.
• Executed design work according to the visual language of adidas as well as given corporate identity guidelines.
• Ensuring proper handover of sketches into development and submitting all relevant information needed for the development process such as sketches, details, fabric, trim indication, and artworks.
• Communications flow between design, marketing and development for all issues regarding the designed ranges and products.

Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Bachelor’S Degree, Fashion Design And Technology - Sportswear, 2:1

• Sportswear Design Concepts and Innovation - Developing individual creative practice and engaging with industry in a series of live.

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Level 3 Extended Diploma In Fashion., Distinction* Distinction* Distinction

Gcse, English, Maths, Science, Art, Textiles, French, Spanish & Ethics, A*-C