Freelance Designer!

My university have set up a mentor scheme for the third years - I got a knitwear freelance designer who is helping me get experience in the knitwear industry. She has been knitting swatches for a swatching company and has let me assist by printing onto samples she has knitted on.

This means that they employ some free lance designers and give them a direction they want to go in. Then the designers will knit lots of mini samples of top fronts and sends them to the company. The swatching company then go out and try and sell the designs to companies. When they buy the designs it belongs to them and not the designer any more =[ they can then change anything they like about the design - e.g. the colour. The designer then cant use the images of the designs in any other projects but can keep images for themselves for future reference.

The designer will get paid once for the design and then the company can keep all the profits made when the sample is created into garments.
It's a sad world for designers but great experience for me!
My designers are in London and will go to New York aswell! Great =]

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