About me
Full-time learner with a special interest for Design.
Currently working as part of the Knit Creative Department at TMG Group.
When I was 18 I decided that it was time to leave my parents' house, the city where I was born and raised in, and my country, in search of the biggest passion I have. Sometimes I tell people that I have a 1st class BAHons in 'How to be a Granny', as it has prepared me to knit a thousand socks and baby-grows for the future.
Throughout Uni years I learnt and developed the three main routes of Textile Design - Print, Weave and Knit - ending up specializing my studies in Knitted Textiles and Knitwear Design due to the challenges proposed by this discipline. For me, Textile Design does not only exist for its aesthetical values, having allied to this important factor the technical and technological characteristics of the fibres and resultant fabric. With this in mind I took up an ERASMUS semester in Technical Textiles and Advanced Materials at ENSAIT, in Roubaix, France; where I developed and tested performance textiles.
After living in Scotland for four years and experiencing la vie en rose in Lille (France) for six months, I decided to take a deep breath back into my culture and move back to Portugal where the sun shines 90% of the year (theoretically).
I took up the role of Quality Manager of the Knit Department at TMG Group just four months after finishing my degree, this catapulted me into 'professional adulthood' where I had the urge to gain and balance team managing skills alongside with the knowledge of the production lines from yarn to finished product, and quality certifications.
2018 was a challenging year, and it finished gratefully: the Quality Department had improved both in results and in team building, and I received an invitation to take part in a new project that TMG Group was going to start.
Currently I am working and developing the Knit Creative Department, looking at trends, studying clients and markets, and constantly presenting new fabric ideas & garments proposals to them. Along side this creative roal I've also recently started working as a Colour and Materials Designer for the automotive industry. The Quality Department background gave me industry knowledge that I now combine with my intrinsic Design skills. This results in the generation of creative solutions that are both cost-effective and industry-realistic, always shaped to fit-in within the context of the market at stake.
Skills
Colour&Material Design, concept design, Knit & Knitwear Design, Quality Control