Nicole B: Textile Designer Boden

As a textile designer, your job heavily relies on computer software. For Example CAD, illustrator etc. Below is a youtube video of Nicola B who is a textile designer at Boden and throughout the video you can see her using computer software to manipulate and develop textile prints and designs. As you can see this is very helpful in the modern world as you can change and develop designs with a click of a button, as apposed to re-drawing ideas out over and over again.
I feel that this job role would be good for me as I like the idea of exhausting ideas for textile prints and creating garments with these prints on them, also using global inspiration to create these designs, however I feel that I would not be creative enough to create a design. 

CAD - Computer Aided Design; In The Fashion Industry

Computer Aided Design is used when designing on a computer, mainly to enhance the quality of design and to increase the productivity of the designer, also it is very economical. this is very useful in the fashion industry as a design on paper can be transferred to the computer so it is precise. Its a very quick process which is great working in the fast paced fashion industry as it allows you to change, recreate and develop designs. For example, a last season best seller, can be modified and developed into a new garment, still using similar elements in minutes using CAD. 

As you can see in these two images, the designs include precise details of the pattern, the colours and design, and how it is to look on a model. This is why it is good in the fashion industry as you could send that off to construction and they would know all the details needed to construct it. Also it gives you an idea of what the design would look like on a model and can show you if the design is possible to make and look good to sell.