Intern Textile Designer

About the Role

Livspace is looking for a creative and detail-oriented Home Textile Design Intern to support seasonal collections across bedding, cushions, curtains, and soft furnishings.

This role offers exposure to the complete retail design cycle from trend research and mood boards to artwork development and vendor-ready files.

If you understand repeats, color stories, and commercial design this is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in seasonal trend research and mood board creation
• Develop surface prints, repeats, and placement artworks
• Create color stories aligned to category strategy
• Prepare CADs and technical artwork files
• Support sample development & vendor coordination
• Maintain design library and artwork documentation
• Adapt prints across SKUs (bedsheets, cushions, curtains etc.)

Required Skills

• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator (mandatory)
• Good knowledge of Photoshop
• Understanding of repeat patterns (half drop, mirror, full repeat)
• Strong sense of color and proportion
• Basic knowledge of textile materials & printing techniques
• Attention to detail and file accuracy
• Good to Have
• Exposure to retail or export house environment
• Understanding of costing & commercial viability
• Hand illustration skills
• Awareness of print techniques (rotary, digital, screen)

Who Should Apply?

• Final-year students / recent graduates in Textile Design / Surface Design
• Strong portfolio with repeat development work
• Candidates interested in commercial retail design (not purely experimental art)

What Youll Gain

• Hands-on retail collection development experience
• Exposure to cross-functional work (Buying, Merchandising, Sourcing)
• Understanding of trend-to-market cycle
• Potential PPO based on performance