Element Position Opening - Men's Accessories

Designer – ELEMENT MEN'S ACCESSORIES

Job Description:

Duties to include, but not limited to the following:
Design multiple categories in men's Accessories Line.
Work closely with Design Director and graphics department.
Develop new shapes, novelty fabrics, styling details, trims, artwork, etc…
Follow direction, perform market research, and develop creative, innovative, leading designs: sketches, multiple colorways, etc…

Key Requirements:
*Minimum 3 years experience in design with a minimum of 1 year experience in accessory design specifically.
*Creative and detail oriented.
*Highly motivated team player.
*Excellent time management skills to meet frequent deadlines.
*Must be able to multi-task and work in a fast paced environment.
*Pro-active with a solution/result oriented attitude.
*Must be MAC computer proficient in Applications - Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Outlook
*Solid understanding of materials and manufacturing processes relating to packs, bags and accessories

If you have any leads for this position please have them email their resume along with salary requirements to jobs@billabong-usa.com

For questions regarding this position, please email Kathy Nolan at kathyn@elementskateboards.com

Billabong Product Development Position Opening

Billabong is currently seeking:

Junior’s Sportswear Product Developer

Job Description:

Duties to include, but not limited to the following:
- Responsible for developing the Junior’s Sportswear line from concept to finished product working closely with designer and management.
- Create and maintain line plans for Junior’s Sportswear line.
- Create and maintain matrices for all styles.
- Communicate with vendors here and overseas to ensure protos and salesman samples are received correctly and on time.
- Review all protos, salesman samples, and pre-production samples and send comments / updated matrices to vendors.
- Negotiate costs with vendors and create cost sheets to ensure margin requirements are met and product is priced competitively at marketplace.
- Handover cost sheets and production matrices to production department.
- Create Junior’s Sportswear portion of the catalog.

Key Requirements:
- Must be deadline driven.
- Must be able to multi task and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be pro-active with a solution / result oriented attitude.
- Must have excellent follow though skills.
- Must be detail oriented.
- Must be MAC computer literate in Applications – Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Candidate should have at least 2 years experience is merchandising.

If you have any leads please have them forward their resume to:
jobs@billabong-usa.com

If you have questions regarding the position you may contact
Kristen Arbour at ext. 3349

Hurley Warehouse Sale this week!

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Get some Christmas shopping done at Hurley's Warehouse sale this week in Santa Ana. Last year there was a ton of goods. You won't want to miss it this year!

Surfside Snowboard Carnival

The 19th Annual Surfside Snowboard Carnival this Saturday, October 30th will be going on in Costa Mesa at the Surfside store.

There will be:

• FREE raffles and food
• Games for prizes
• Meet the Pros
• STORE WIDE SALE - Up to 70% off!

WHEN: OCT 30th - Doors open at 9am

WHERE: Surfside - 233 E. 17th St. Costa Mesa, CA 92627 949-645-4624

Field trip to Hurley with Scottie Somers

FASH 254 Fashion in Southern California went on their first industry tour at Hurley in Costa Mesa. Scottie Somers, who is the Director of Goodwill and founder of Living the Dream foundation, led the tour for 14 fashion students at Saddleback.

Scottie made the tour really made it special for the students. He spent over 2 hours showing all the areas of Hurley and discussing his personal passion "Living the Dream". (See the website: http://www.livingthedreamfoundation.org) Students discovered that Hurley is an amazing company in all the ways it gives back.... H2O, Living the Dream, collaborations with artists, musicians, surfers, skaters, high school students in "Walk the Walk", CHOC walk - a collaboration with Disney. Students got an inside view at the design wall, sales room, technical design room, Converse room, Nike 6.0, and more!

He took time out of his day to do an amazing tour for the students. Each student got a Hurley t-shirt and chapstick. Thank you Scottie!

Quiksilver Guest Speaker at Saddleback

Come Check it OUT!

GUEST SPEAKER AT SADDLEBACK!

Oct. 13th

Merchandiser and Designer for Wovens

Young Mens Quiksilver

TIME: 11a.m.

WHERE: BGS 104

Billabong Bikini Design Contest

Billabong
BIG WAVE
Bikini Design Contest

Hey designers! Enter Lycra and Billabong's Bikini contest and you can see your design be sold in stores as well as a TRIP TO HAWAII!

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Guest Speaker this week at Saddleback

This Monday we have avery exciting guest speaker
coming to Saddleback College Fashion Department:

Josh Riessen from Element - Men's Accessories Designer
WHEN: March 29th
TIME: 5:00pm
WHERE: BGS 119

Hope to see you there!!

Invite your friends that are interested in fashion! This is extra credit for Lindsay's classes - just write a page (double spaced, or 1/2 page single spaced) on what you learned.

High school students interested in fashion in the OC area are also welcome.

Exciting Oakley Guest Speaker This Saturday

This Saturday we have another exciting fashion guest speaker from Oakley named Adrienne Ernst here at Saddleback College. She is a Senior Merchandiser at Oakley and will be explaining what it's like to work in an active sports apparel company with the design team and other merchandisers. She is bringing some awesome visuals if I do say so myself!

This next guest lecture is this Saturday:
WHEN: March 27th

TIME: 10:30am to 11:30am

WHERE: BGS 104
Hope to see you there!!

Invite your friends that are interested in fashion! This is extra credit for Lindsay's classes - just write a page (double spaced, or 1/2 page single spaced) on what you learned.

High school students interested in fashion in the OC area are also welcome.

Snowboarder Magazine Internship

Student John Huber, did his internship at Snowboarder Magazine where he did a commercial shoot and product photography project he worked on at the end of this semester.

Check out the link to the actual commercial he helped produce, shoot, edit and then put live on the web: http://fresh.snowboardermag.com/videos/the-most-interesting-man-in-snowboarding