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Senior textile and graphic designer with 15+ years of experience creating original, trend-driven textile designs across multiple markets. Skilled in managing end-to-end design workflows, leading teams, and maintaining strong client relationships. Works across kids’ and teen prints, swimwear and home textiles, and apparel CAD design—handling market research, lookbooks, mockups, and promotion materials while ensuring technical accuracy and production quality.…Senior textile and graphic designer with 15+ years of experience creating original, trend-driven textile designs across multiple markets. Skilled in managing end-to-end design workflows, leading teams, and maintaining strong client relationships. Works across kids’ and teen prints, swimwear and home textiles, and apparel CAD design—handling market research, lookbooks, mockups, and promotion materials while ensuring technical accuracy and production quality.

Karen Hsing

Textile Designer, Designer, Graphic Designer, +1

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Senior textile and graphic designer with 15+ years of experience creating original, trend-driven textile designs across multiple markets. Skilled in managing end-to-end design workflows, leading teams, and maintaining strong client relationships. Works across kids’ and teen prints, swimwear and home textiles, and apparel CAD design—handling market research, lookbooks, mockups, and promotion materials while ensuring technical accuracy and production quality.…Senior textile and graphic designer with 15+ years of experience creating original, trend-driven textile designs across multiple markets. Skilled in managing end-to-end design workflows, leading teams, and maintaining strong client relationships. Works across kids’ and teen prints, swimwear and home textiles, and apparel CAD design—handling market research, lookbooks, mockups, and promotion materials while ensuring technical accuracy and production quality.

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Senior textile and graphic designer with 15+ years of experience creating original, trend-driven textile designs across multiple markets. Skilled in managing end-to-end design workflows, leading teams, and maintaining strong client relationships.

Works across kids’ and teen prints, swimwear and home textiles, and apparel CAD design—handling market research, lookbooks, mockups, and promotion materials while ensuring technical accuracy and production quality.

Skills

Surface Pattern Design

Illustration

Leadership

Experience Level

Surface Pattern Design

Expert

Illustration

Expert

Leadership

Expert

Work Experience

Freelance Artist / Freelance Textile Designer

July 1, 2022 - Present

Specializes in TJ Maxx collections including Kids Home, Soft Home, and Kitchen CAD design. Collaborates with clients to develop original artwork and interpret trends for children’s, teens’, swimwear, home textiles, and apparel. Manages the full process from market research, collection lookbooks, mockups, and promotional materials through to technical accuracy and graphic production oversight.

Senior Textile Designer at DotDotSmile

August 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022

Managed end-to-end design process to ensure on-time delivery. Created on-trend children’s wear prints. Prepared final production artwork and supervised quality control. Designed logos and promotional materials, collaborating with development teams and maintaining design records.

Senior Designer at Amrapur Overseas Inc.

July 1, 2020 - July 1, 2021

Designed comforter, quilt, and sheet sets. Approved lab dips and strike-offs. Assisted leadership and mentored interns. Created spec sheets and resolved overseas production issues. Conducted trend research.

Senior Graphic Artist / Art Department Manager at AVID Ink Art & Sublimation Print Technologies

September 1, 2008 - July 1, 2015

Researched trends and created merchandise designs. Worked with clients on custom design modifications. Managed art changes and supervised production. Led junior designers and maintained reporting. Attended trade shows including MAGIC Las Vegas and the LA Textile Show.

Graphic Artist at Swat Fame Inc.

November 1, 2007 - September 1, 2008

Scanned fabric prints and organized artwork files on the company server. Cleaned prints using Photoshop CS3 and created/redesigned new prints using Illustrator and Photoshop CS3. Collaborated on Pantone colors in Photoshop and created color palettes. Prepared presentation boards for marketing and sales. Designed hangtags and labels for clothing lines and registered copyrights for original artwork.