Junior Apparel Graphic Designer - Trendy Prints

Cotton Citizen; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

COTTONCITIZEN is seeking a Junior Graphic Designer to support the creative and apparel design teams in developing graphics, prints, and visual concepts for clothing and accessories.

You will create trend-driven artwork, prepare production-ready files, and maintain brand consistency across all apparel categories, collaborating with product development, merchandising, and sourcing teams to ensure print accuracy.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showcasing apparel graphics, patterns, mockups, and creative process work.
• Strong sense of typography, color theory, layout, and visual composition.
• Ability to create vector graphics and manipulate raster images.

Responsibilities

• Design apparel graphics including logos, illustrations, icons, badges, labels, and themed artwork.
• Develop placement prints, all-over prints (AOPs), patterns, and layouts for garment types.
• Prepare production-ready artwork with color separations, scaling, and print specs.
• Create mockups to visualize designs on T-shirts, hoodies, denim, and accessories.
• Assist senior designers in mood boards, concept decks, and collection presentations.
• Create digital marketing assets such as email graphics, banners, and social stories.
• Crop, resize, and lightly retouch product photography for e-commerce and digital use.
• Collaborate with product development, merchandising, and sourcing to ensure print accuracy.
• Maintain organized design files, libraries, and style guides.
• Support the team with edits and updates based on feedback.
• Follow brand identity standards across all outputs.

Skills

Typography

Color theory

Layout

Teamwork

Deadline driven

Education

Degree in Graphic Design or related field

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

InDesign

Job description

COTTONCITIZEN is seeking a Junior Graphic Designer to support the creative and apparel design teams in developing graphics, prints, and visual concepts for clothing and accessories.

You will create trend-driven artwork, prepare production-ready files, and maintain brand consistency across all apparel categories, collaborating with product development, merchandising, and sourcing teams to ensure print accuracy.