PrintLAB

digital printing experience
at Friulprint in Tarvisio, Italy.

Calling all print designers!!

Are you a print designer?

Are you doolally for digital print?

Do you love colour? Experimenting?

Would you like to work in Italy for 6 months?

Can you speak English?

Have you graduated or will you graduate before July 2008?

If you have answered YES to all these questions then this might just be the project for you.

We are looking for enthusiastic designers that love and are colour confident, very artistic and able to create designs suitable for digital print and are interested in experimenting and learning more about digital printing.

Friulprint located in northeast Italy is a fabric print company with a long list of clients including Armani, Ferrè, Ugo Boss, Paul Smith, Zara, Fashion Ink, Max Mara, Nina Ricci, YSL, Marina Rinaldi, Trussardi, Veste Bene, Louis Vuitton.

They are offering two 6 month work experiences, the first work experience running from September 2008 - February 2009 and the second February - July 2009. The 2 young designers will work alongside the director and receive all the training and guidance needed. This is a hands on experience not a photocopying experience!! And you will not have to go further into debt as it is paid.

The work experience will include:

• accommodation
• a monthly contribution of €1000 (net)
• return flights to Italy (from UK)
• during the six months you will work on creating a print collection that will be presented at Premier Vision under your own name
  

If you are interested in applying you must prepare a complete portfolio of your work containing:

• graduate collection
• previous and current work
• research and inspirational images
• other material, although we are specifically looking for candidates that are interested in digital print they can include other material of past work, for example artistic sketches
• a personal statement explaining their creative process
• CV
• all of the above must also be saved on dvd/cd
  
• signed copy of the application form
  - DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM
  
• signed privacy release
  - DOWNLOAD PRIVACY RELEASE

IMPORTANT - If required to give a description of the package contents, write that the package contains documents only, and be sure to declare a value of less than Eur 25 to avoid customs fees. EVE will not pay for any packages that require payment upon receipt, they will be returned to sender. You don't want that to happen! If you are sending your portfolio from outside the European Union, please find out ahead of time if you are subject to pay customs fees and be sure to pay them.

This must be posted to the below address and must arrive at our offices by the 15th May 2008. N.B. NO MATERIAL WILL BE RETURNED

EVE srl - printLAB Project
Piazza Venezia, 1
Trieste 34123
Italy

Where
The company is located in a quaint small town called Tarcento in north-east Italy so if you love the city it could be a long six months - so take this into consideration before sending your work.
Check out Friulprint website to find out more about the company.

Selection Process
From all the applications that arrive, a small jury consisting of representatives from Friulprint and EVE srl will select 4-8 candidates to be interviewed here in Trieste. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by Friulprint. The results of selections will be communicated via email no later than the 5th June.

Save these dates:
15 May 2008 Deadline for arrival of material at our offices
15-17 June 2008 Interviews here in Trieste, Italy
June 2008 Interviews here in Trieste, Italy
September 2008 - February 2009 work experience 1
February 2009 - July 2009 work experience 2

Job Offers

looking for work opportunities as a young talent ?

Are you a young fashion or accessories designer out of work? Interested in working on special projects? Take the time to read this page and follow the instructions! Eve is bringing together the know-how and experience it has from working together over the years with young fashion designers and fashion houses. For over 5 years we have helped ITS#FINALISTS take their first steps into the working world, placing people at John Galliano, Giorgio Armani, Antonio Marras, Yves Saint Laurent, Diesel and Max Mara to name a few. Now we are offering support to fashion and accessories designers regardless of whether they apply to ITS or not. So if you speak fluent English and/or Italian and you have already graduated in fashion or accessories design, be ready to:

1. Fill the form with your data

2. Upload up to five images of your collection (the total of all the files must be less than 1Mb)

JOB OFFERS ENTRY FORM

Whenever something interesting pops up, we will contact you for further information.

RELIABILTY IS ESSENTIAL: if you have sent your material but are no longer interested, you must notify us by writing to the e-mail we will provide you.