Description
Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.
EssentialOptional
Theoretical Knowledge
Practical Skills
develop footwear collectionuse communication techniquesmake technical drawings of fashion piecesuse IT toolscommunicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languagesimplement footwear marketing planperform market research in footweardevelop footwear and leather goods marketing planscreate mood boardsreduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturingapply fashion trends to footwear and leather goodscreate patterns for footwearanalyse types of footwearwork in textile manufacturing teamscreate technical sketches for footwearinnovate in footwear and leather goods industryperform pattern gradinguse CAD for solesdesign 2D pattern for footwear 3D visualisationoperate 2D CAD for footwearcreate 3D CAD footwear prototypesuse CAD for lastsuse CAD for heelsprepare footwear samplescreate solutions to problems