Dash and Miller Studio Assistant Job Role
Full time role, 35 hours per week, salary dependent on experience.
Dash & Miller studio specialises in the concept design and R&D of woven textiles and fabric innovation. They combine traditional hands-on processes with cutting-edge technology and digital skills, offering a unique understanding of materials and manufacturing within the wider industrial and ecological contexts.
This role is predominantly an administrative and sales role, and requires a passion for international travel, along with excellent organisation, communication and planning skills. Experience with hand-woven design and a full driving license is essential.
Studio Management:
• General studio admin including archiving, sourcing, market research.
• Managing Studio Intern program.
• Induction of interns, delegating tasks and providing any basic training and support required.
• Stock check and procurement to ensure smooth running of day-to-day operations.
• Responding to all general enquires or directing to the appropriate member of the D+M team.
• Attending weekly meetings and updating the studio calendar with real-time information.
• Maintaining communication with global agents, scheduling the D+M portfolio and archive to be sent to agents between studio sales trips and trade shows in line with studio calendar.
• General logistics and shipping of samples, client projects and the D+M collection.
• Organising freelance designers work and technical files, communicating deadlines to freelancers, giving feedback on design-work and recording freelance invoices.
• On-boarding new freelancers, communicating requirements for technical files and design format. Ensuring all freelancers have any resources they require.
• Preparing and sending out of technical files for sold designs, liaising with client’s suppliers where necessary.
• Photographing D+M portfolio for online digital collection, editing and uploading files.
• Keeping the studio tidy, general housekeeping. Ensuring yarns and ongoing project work is organised and/or archived.
Sales:
• Attending sales trips and trade shows, representing the company in key markets.
• Planning and scheduling travel.
• Planning, designing, and executing stands for tradeshows.
• Organised and thorough documentation of any expenditure related to sales trips, including receipts and foreign cash.
Design:
• Assisting the other members of the D+M team with design input where required.
• Designing and hand-weaving Dobby and Jacquard samples for the D+M portfolio of artworks sold to fashion/interior clients worldwide.
• Researching and collating studio trend forecasts in alignment with the studio direction and seasonal calendar.
• Practical weaving tasks such as setting up of weaving looms from warp winding to threading and reeding.
• Thorough and organised digital documentation of design work for both the D+M collection and client projects including technical sheets, weave plans, photographs and physical cuttings of design samples.
To apply please email your CV, cover letter and digital portfolio, all in PDF format to juliet@dashandmiller.com by 6pm on Sunday 11th August 2024.
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