After 7 years as a senior designer / design manager identifying key trends in homewares and developing ranges of home textiles, accessories and furniture with major retailers Clare went on to set up Clare Gillen Design, offering services to retailers, manufacturers and a variety of other clients. Clare is able to, not only identify key commercial trends and colours but to time them just right for hitting the market when they will appeal and resonate with the customer.
Having a background in lighting design, this has given Clare a good grounding in both shape and surface pattern across a wide variety of materials and throughout her career Clare has successfully applied those skills across all categories of Home & Furniture, as well as stationary, Christmas and outdoor ranges and she has developed trusted and productive professional relationships with several major retailers at differing levels of the market.
Clare has a strong sense of commerciality and always keeps the end customer in mind whilst developing product.
Services on offer range from trends, colour and product direction, range review or category reporting to specific product or pattern design.
Skilled in photoshop, illustrator and indesgin.
Skilled in photoshop, illustrator and indesgin.
Clare can also work in AutoCAD, Solidworks and SketchUp when 3D visualisations are required.
