Phyllis Dobbs

Current

Owner, Illustrator & Designer at Phyllis Dobbs Art & Design Studio

Past

Designer at Ribbon World
Owner and Designer at Lucky Duck Designs

Education

University of Alabama

Recommended

2 people have recommended Phyllis

Connections

135 connections

Industry

Arts and Crafts

Websites

Phyllis Dobbs’s Summary

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

Phyllis Dobbs’s Specialties:

Art Illustration, textile product design and development, fabric design, product concepts, extensive computer skills.

Phyllis Dobbs’s Experience

Owner, Illustrator & Designer

Phyllis Dobbs Art & Design Studio

(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
Designer

Ribbon World

(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
Owner and Designer

Lucky Duck Designs

(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.