Owner, Phyllis Dobbs Art & Design Studio
Birmingham, Alabama Area
Owner, Phyllis Dobbs Art & Design Studio
Birmingham, Alabama Area
Creates art illustration images for licensing and formats the images through Photoshop and Illustrator for product use on gift and home decor lines.
Fabric design including colorways and collections
Design for textile products - create designs and patterns for textile home and kitchen products, quilts, sewing and more.
Product development
Art Illustration, textile product design and development, fabric design, product concepts, extensive computer skills.
(Arts and Crafts industry)
1996 — Present (13 years )
Illustration and Design:
Creates art illustration for art licensing on product and merchandise, including character images, in a whimsy and vibrant color style
Formats art to fit product design, and to provide coordinating image collections.
Fabric Design - formats art and provides fabric images in Photoshop layers.
Graphic Design using Photoshop and Illustrator
Kit Design - create designs in various mediums and products
Textile product designs - sewing & quilting designs & patterns and mixed media/embellishment
(Textiles industry)
January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )
Designed ribbons, textile products (including Non-seasonal for the kitchen and seasonal including Christmas tree skirts and stockings), craft kits for holiday - Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Spring, St. Patricks' Day, etc.
Frequent trips to China to the factory to oversee product development
(Arts and Crafts industry)
1984 — 2005 (21 years )
Designed various types of needlework - counted cross stitch, embroidery, ribbon embroidery, and needlepoint
Designed quilts and self published quilt patterns
Designed beaded jewelry, needlework and embellishments
Self published 50 needlework booklets - Counted Cross Stitch
Author - Dimensional Quilts (Krause) and Fun with Flannel (Leisure Arts)
Authored over 50 instructional booklets for needlepoint, beading and ribbon embroidery.
Freelance designing for books, magazines and manufacturers - needlework, quilts, sewing, crafts and kits, and conversion of art images into cross stitch.
BS , Interior Design
Illustration, art licensing, fabric design, textile product design, quilting, quilt design, sewing, reading, travel.
CHA (Craft and Hobby Association
SCBWI (Society of Childrens Book Writing and Illustration
Plaid Horizon's Award, an educational grant