Apparel Graphic Designer

Black Hound Sports; Winkfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Winkfield

Competitive salary

Job summary

Black Hound Sports is seeking a talented Apparel Graphic Designer to join our team full-time at our office in Winkfield, Ascot, Berkshire. You will create original apparel and teamwear designs, from bespoke collections to logos, prints and production-ready artwork, while preparing files for various decoration methods and supporting online graphics.

Approximately 80% of the role focuses on apparel and teamwear design, with 20% covering marketing, catalogues and digital content.

Qualifications

• Strong Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills.
• Experience in apparel, sportswear, fashion or merchandise design.
• Able to create accurate, production-ready artwork.
• Good understanding of print, embroidery and garment decoration.
• Strong typography, colour and layout skills.
• Comfortable managing several client projects and revisions simultaneously.
• Creative, commercially minded, organised and able to work quickly.
• Shopify experience is helpful but not essential.
• Experience using AI design tools would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Create bespoke teamwear collections.
• Design playing shirts and sublimation designs.
• Develop T-shirts, hoodies, jackets, caps and lifestyle garments.
• Produce logos, crests, prints, embroidery artwork and garment graphics.
• Create colourways, garment mock-ups and production-ready artwork.
• Prepare client presentations, catalogues and marketing materials.
• Prepare files for sublimation, embroidery, screen printing and DTF.
• Support website and Shopify graphics when required.

Skills

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Apparel design

Production-ready artwork

Print/embroidery understanding

Typography & layout

Client project management

Shopify experience

AI design tools

Tools

Shopify

Job description

Black Hound Sports is looking for a talented Apparel Graphic Designer to join our team full-time at our office in Winkfield, Ascot, Berkshire.

Black Hound is a British sportswear and lifestyle brand specialising in bespoke polo teamwear, club collections, tournament merchandise and custom apparel for clients around the world.

The role

Your main focus will be creating original apparel and teamwear designs, including:

• Bespoke teamwear collections
• Playing shirts and sublimation designs
• T-shirts, hoodies, jackets, caps and lifestyle garments
• Logos, crests, prints, embroidery artwork and garment graphics
• Colourways, garment mock-ups and production-ready artwork
• Client presentations, catalogues and marketing materials
• Preparing files for sublimation, embroidery, screen printing and DTF
• Supporting website and Shopify graphics when required

Approximately 80% of the role will focus on apparel and teamwear design, with 20% covering marketing, catalogues and digital content.

About you

• Strong Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills
• Experience in apparel, sportswear, fashion or merchandise design
• Able to create accurate, production-ready artwork
• Good understanding of print, embroidery and garment decorationStrong typography, colour and layout skills
• Comfortable managing several client projects and revisions simultaneously
• Creative, commercially minded, organised and able to work quickly
• Shopify experience is helpful but not essential
• Experience using AI design tools would be an advantage
• Office-based in Winkfield, Ascot, Berkshire
• Salary: £30,000–£45,000 per year, depending on experience
• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK