# Polina Dadakova > Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/polinadadakova ## Work Experience ### Color Designer @ Athleta Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Designer @ Jan 2022 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States ### Visual Designer @ lululemon Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Freelance contract assignment through Graphite - Building and maintaining seasonal color tools and easy to interpret visual line plans. Creating compelling tools for cross functional collaboration, organizing data in visually pleasing way, gathering assets in a timely manner. ### Color Designer - ETW @ Nike Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Contract via ProUnlimited/ Magnit. Men's Performance Apparel Color Design. ### Print Color Designer - Flex ETW @ Nike Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 (1 Year Contract via Pro Unlimited) Color prints for Apparel and Accessories, each in 2 - 10 colorways, using color standards and based on Color Designer briefs for each product category, reduce/separate artwork when necessary, create technical schematics for prints and colorways and serve as point of contact between print developers and product design teams, create repeats, make scale changes, create and maintain swatch palette of all seasonal prints for use with PLM system, create prints based on briefs and seasonal concepts, contribute to seasonal trend research and concepting, create mockups of prints on product for seasonal presentations. ### Prepress Lead / Project Manager @ Edition One Books Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, CA Customer service / pre-press lead for assisting clients with order and material selection, file preparation, and pricing in person, via phone, and email. Educating clients, managing accounts and client relationships. Managing all order and account data and communication thereof between clients and production team. Resolving issues with customer experience and solving customer problems. Assist in selecting seasonal book cloth colors and material options. Sourcing custom materials to match customer color schemes and manufacturers for outsourced production tasks. Maintaining a file archive and detailed database that is constantly updating. Preparing and optimizing files for print. Using Adobe Creative Suite to edit and prepare files for print. Approving product, print quality, and color accuracy. Training personnel. Preparing quotes and invoices. Addressing customer complaints and resolving problems with orders, providing excellent customer service. Suggesting and implementing improvements to customer experience, creating efficient organizational systems. ### Wholesale and Design Assistant @ VISCERA Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Oakland, CA Assist with design and compilation of marketing materials for jewelry line, merchandising, organizing database of products and online store with Shopify, and stockist research and data organization. ### Production Manager / Color Specialist @ Trove Wallcoverings Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York, NY Managed and executed production operations at a wallcovering design company. Continued to participate in daily production duties of production assistant, trained personnel, created custom colorways and layouts, color matching and quality control, tracking dye lots, performed technical research, material testing and sourcing, managed production schedule, managed supply order schedule, requested quotes from suppliers, met with suppliers for informational meetings and technical support, attended trade shows, resolved production issues and difficulties faced by production assistants. ### Production Assistant @ Trove Wallcoverings Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | New York, NY Executed production operations at a wallcovering design company. Responsibilities included: creating custom colorways and layouts in Adobe Creative Suite according to client specifications and color swatches, setting up repeating files, pre-flight file preparation, scanning and editting images, retouching surfaces by hand, hand painted details, quality check, technical research and material testing, operating rip software, maintaining and operating wide format printers and other delicate machinery, packing and shipping, organization, maintaining inventory of supplies, assisting with trade show participation, meeting with clients. ### Artist Assistant @ Federico Solmi Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Brooklyn, NY Assisting with creation of new series of paintings and animations: mixing colors, underpainting and detail rendering. Assisting with research, preparing Photoshop renderings of future exhibitions, completing applications to art festivals and exhibitions, designing closing credits for animation, assisting design and production of edition of wooden DVD boxes. ### Printshop Monitor, Teacher's Assistant, and Technical Assistant @ Rhode Island School of Design Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 Printshop Technical Assistant- Assisting students in lithography and screen printing shop usage/ print methods, shop clean up, restocking, and organizing stock room, errands and supply shopping. Teacher's Assistant - Advised students of 2D design, drawing, and printmaking with their assignments and the techniques taught. Took care of administrative tasks such as attendance logs and scheduling. Studio maintenance. Leading student critiques. ### Papermaking Assistant @ Roberto Mannino Artist Studio Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Rome, Italy ### Studio and Art Administration Intern @ Dieu Donné Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | New York, NY Assisting studio manager with studio artists’ projects in paper-making (mixing pulps and pigments, operating paper beater, archival paper maché for Ann Hamilton, etc.), studio maintenance and cleaning, works on paper archive upkeep, archival curating, gallery exhibition installation assistance, office organization/filing, errands/art delivery, art handling/packing, Adobe Photoshop art photography retouching. ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Printmaking Rhode Island School of Design ### Stuyvesant High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polina-dadakova-0a24b247 --- Source: https://flows.cv/polinadadakova JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/polinadadakova/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07