DAVID BORGATTA
Head Designer · Liquid Graphics - AVVA Brand
Santa Ana, CA
In My Own Words
Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop, PLMA, PLMF, Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Skype, Dropbox, Wacom, Mac OS, and Hand Illustration. Hobbies include: Outdoors, Skateboarding, Yoga, Fine Art Shows, Creative Writing, and living life to the fullest. Research Methods: Music, Street & Lifestyle, Social Media, WGSN, Books, Intuition, and Creative Peripheral Vision
Work Experience
Head Designer
Liquid Graphics - AVVA Brand2020 – Present
Head Designer at Liquid Graphics with the primary design responsibilities to AVVA Brand. My duties include T-Shirt Design Apparel Graphic Art, Knits, Fleece, Outerwear,Non Denim Bottoms, Shorts, Boardshorts, Hat and Accessories. Also, included is design content for website, social media and marketing content. Working at Liquid graphics I also am responsible for special clients as assigned, follow through and work with screen print techs, press checks in the factory floor and make technical decisions to ensure time and quality expectations are met. In my day to day operations I create Tech Packs, work with merchasiders, sales and production teams, and attend weekly review meetings to ensure communication with all development is current and communicated efficiently.
Designer
Boardriders Inc2014 – 2019
of Graphic Content Roxy USA/Global • Designed and developed creative content for seasonal direction. • Create graphics for SMU, injection, regional, and global needs • Produced Good, Better, Best art for graphic tees, and print textile requests. • Product categories include knits/tees, apparel, shoes, and accessories. • Worked closely with merchandisers, managers, and designers daily. • Made creative decisions to ensure the highest quality and the best cost to treatments. • Traveled to France yearly to work side by side with our global creative team on seasonal art development. • Managed projects from initial directional kick off, art reviews, final line adopt and tech packs. • Followed calendar closely to ensure timely deadlines for both global and regional M&D objectives. • Maintained steady growth in numbers each season and followed top selling reports weekly. • Developed close relationships with coworkers from the CEO, CFO, designers, merchandisers, sales, production and finance in all regions of our global brands.
