Blackstrap Internship

2025 Color Design Internship

Bend, Oregon

FW 2026 Color Brief

My final project for my Blackstrap internship was to develop a brief for their FW 2026 Season. This included pattern creation, color forecasting, color storytelling, and more. Below are some slides pulled from the deck that I am particularly proud of, due to the research that went into the slide, or simply the final result.

Client
Blackstrap Industries

Year
02/03/2025

Learned Skills and Objectives

  • Learning how to research upcoming trends, sift through data and fashion trends, all to build a comprehsive deck was something I had never done before. With the guidance of my site advisor, I created a final product that I am incredibly proud of.

  • Creating repeatable, infinte patterns, with the intention of being printed on a roll was something I had never done before. It was a very rewarding process building these patterns, and creating a seamless product turned out to be one of the highlights of the internship for me.

  • Before my internship, the idea of taking notes existed solely in my mind as something reserved for class. However, during my internship, I was diligent about note taking, in preparation for the remote-portion of my internship. These notes proved valuable, as many of the topics and objectives of my remote work existed only in the workplace. These notes allowed me to execute a project I had never done before, with no one looking over my shoulder.