Akancha Tandon

• Design seasonal specific design collections for inhouse brands.
• Develop woven rugs, tufted rugs, woven jacquard bath towels, cushions and shower curtains.
• Prepare hand offs for new collections, renderings and presentation boards for meetings and proposals for each season.
• Giving direction to the Art Team in designing new art for each season.
• Create final CAD Artwork to give presentations to the merchants for finalizing each Assortment.
• Work closely with Product Development Team to get effective average costing on collections.
• Create Spec sheets and coordinate with vendors for sampling.
• Update Design folders and Tear Sheets for future reference and color match.
• Send pre-development packages and review with Product team for costing.
• Travel to New York Market Week for vendor meetings and study Trends.
• Manage design and product spec data within the One PLM System.

• Design new collections in Window & Bath category for accounts like Home Goods, T.J. Maxx and BBB.
• Change colors & scale of original artworks in Adobe suits according to buyer’s feedback & consumer trends.
• Manage design process from conception to approval.
• Create spec sheets for factories to make samples & complete production.

• Worked with Chief Design Officer to develop Bedding collections for the brand
• Worked at Bath collections for accounts like Walmart, J.C. Penny, Sam's Club.
• Lead design teams in translating color, print, layout and seasonal direction for global markets
• Conceptualizing Branding and marketing proposals for the label
• Developed Packaging designs for in house brands
• Designs created by hand drawing and CAD Photoshop and Illustrator
• Developing and directing trends, creating mood boards and color for forthcoming trends per season and presenting them to management, designers and marketing teams
• Liaising with print factories for the development of samples for shows and projects per season
• Collaborate with design teams on product development
• Worked closely with Production, Costing teams to achieve appropriate departmental margin
• Provide suggestions on achieving desired MOQs per style after final account bookings
• Completing color comments for communication with mills
• Organization of pantone library, updating color palettes and hue boards
• Maintaining strike-off request filing system
• Responsible for brand development and coordinating with suppliers

Exhibition: Heimtextil, Frankfurt ‘15
• Ideation from concept to finished bed linen collection for the exhibition
• Development of motifs, hand rendering, layout styling and final bed drapes
• Designed brochure for the Home Linen story of the Brand

Exhibition: HGH India Exhibition’14
• Ideation from concept to finished bed linen collection for the exhibition.
• Contributed for the first bookings of the Bed Linen department
• Designed brochures for the Home Linen story of the Brand

• Developed Designer Top of the Bed Range in coordination with Portico India for Neeta Lulla label
• Sampling for TOB range in close coordination with artisans for Surface development and hand crafted textiles
• Development of coordinated bed linen, duvet cover, bolsters, shams and runners for different bedding collections
• Conceptualizing Branding and marketing proposals for the label

• Developed a collection of Home linen as my Graduation Project
• Created original prints from concept to production for Bed Linen market.
• Developed close working relationship with design team to understand color, story, mood, direction of the brand and interpreted it in the prints and artwork.
• Reinterpreted purchased artwork, created color ways and repeats
• Maintained artwork library and color standards
• Worked with production department on strike off approval

• Developed hand crafted screens by exploring Denim Fabric for Premiere Vision, Paris ‘12
• Experimented with Screen Printing in tandem with Discharge Dyeing
• Developed samples combining dyeing techniques like Shibori & Aarashi
• Final screens were used to build Front facade of the booth in Premier Vision, Paris' 12 Exhibition.

• Trend research and design development for the client, Guess, Womenswear
• Created presentation boards for the buyers Diesel, Old Navy, Gap Inc.
• Assisted senior designers with artwork development
• Developed flat sketches and spec packs for production
• Worked with marking, grading and design to create engineered placement prints with optimum fabric yield
• Learnt different dyeing techniques and denim wash effects in integration
• Comprehension of Garment Construction in an assembly line system