Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator

Kathleen Colussy is the author of the latest industry-driven book, How to Research the Internet for Fashion .. As part of the Colussy-Greenberg authoring team they co-wrote the first Adobe Photoshop book for fashion, entitled: How to Render Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Abobe Photoshop, along with the newest edition specifically for Adobe Illustrator entitled: How to Render Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator and of course her first book, Fashion Design On Computers  all published by Prentice Hall. In addition Kathleen is the owner of the companion website, www.Computersandfashion.com  which is dedicated to enhancing the digital design and multi-level traning.   Ms. Colussy’s approach is concept-specific and not software or platform specific, allowing clients to garner critical skills and techniques necessary to successfully design fashion on the computer. This timely method of instruction has been utilized by educational institutions as well as design firms. Kathleen classes and seminars empower her students  to leave her seminars armed with information to make quality decisions based on clients needs, budgetary requirements and outcome objectives.   Ms. Colussy is a 23 year veteran educator as well as freelance designer who understands the complexities of  client management, deadlines while mastering the learning curve to garner new computer skills necessary to compete in today’s fashion environment.    Kathleen has been recognized by the  educational community  when she was selected as the Design Faculty of the Year for the State of Florida in 2001,and again in 2004 in addition she has been nominated several times as “Who’s Who for Teachers.”   Within the education corporate community of EMC, Kathleen was also one of five fashion educators selected to research and develop fashion design curriculum for Education Management and the Art Institute International. This curriculum has been adopted in Seattle, Philadelphia, Dallas, Huston, and Fort. Lauderdale and Chicago. Kathleen, recognized the need to introduce practical application of technology into the classroom by developing several classes that would address the need to train the next generation of students to successfully transition from theory to industry application.   In her seminars as well as her classroom,  Ms. Colussy’s brings insight, humor and a down-to-earth style in teaching computers.  Ms. Colussy also is currently authoring a series of articles for several major newspapers, E-zines and for top forecasting service WGSN(Worth Global Style Network on the topic of Digital Textile Designing and Digital Portfolios.   Ms. Colussy  provides workshops, lectures and seminars on utilizing most any vector or raster-based commercial or industrial based software used today by the fashion industry.   Kathleen’s recent accomplishments include a line of digitally rendered fashions and artwork  under the label “Print a Porter Designs” with her partner J. O’Reilly.      Steve Greenberg is the Managing Director of Pointcarre USA, a textile software company that develops products specifically for the textile, apparel and home furnishing industries. A alumni of Parsons School of Design with Degrees in Advertising & Communication Design and Computer Graphics, Steve began his career developing graphics and eventually specifications and styling for a number of small children’s wear companies. This led to a designer position at Federated/Allied Department Stores for private label Boys Activewear line for Abraham & Strauss, Burdines and Bloomingdale’s among others.     While at Federated, Steve was placed in the position of developing the CAD operations for the fashion department. A number of Apple Macintosh’s were bought and it was there that Monarch Design Systems textile software was brought in. After training many of the designers at Federated and building design workflows, Steve left Federated for a position as a CAD trainer and became involved in software specification at Monarch.   Steve quickly climbed the corporate ladder at Monarch and was soon Training & Support Manager. His industry experience greatly improved the textile design products of the company. Steve soon met with Pointcarre France. Pointcarre was developing and selling their own design software worldwide and was looking for a partner in the United States. It was a perfect match. Steve traveled to France to learn Pointcarre’s product line as well as prepare and improve it for the US market. It was instantly successful. After years of doing business jointly, Monarch was bought by Pointcarre France.   It was at this time that Steve was asked to be the Managing Director of the US division. He continues there, with the help of an amazing team of textiles and fabric veterans to drive the market for print’s, woven’s, knit’s and embroidery software. Today Pointcarre USA is one of the largest textile software companies in the United States and boasts a huge list of clients from Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Nike and Ralph Lauren Polo to Town & Country Living and Kmart. Pointcarre is also in schools such as Philadelphia University, Rhode Island School of Design, North Carolina State University, Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology as well as others with textile programs.   Over the years Steve has been a lecturer on Computer Aided Textile Design at Parsons school of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania. Steve is also an active board member of CITDA, the Computer Integrated Textile Design Association.