Dallas Nagata White is a graphic and textile print designer, illustrator, and photographer based in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she resides with her husband and new son. She finds her inspiration in both the natural world and the digital world, as a reflection of her passions for both the great outdoors and video games. Dallas is a true creative at heart, and is always learning new skills to add to her extensive repertoire of hobbies (occasionally turned professions) that include photography, drawing, painting, sewing, and embroidery.
Skills
• Adobe Photoshop (20+ years experience)
• Adobe Illustrator (15+ years experience)
• Adobe Lightroom (15 years experience)
• Traditional art techniques including drawing, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil painting, markers, and ink.
• Digital art techniques of hand-drawing and painting in programs such as Procreate and Clip Studio Paint.
• Professional digital photography (commercial lifestyle and editorial fashion) and editing (14 years experience)
• Fashion design/flat patternmaking/industrial sewing (4 years experience)
Experience
Freelance Graphic/Textile Print Designer, 2019-Present
Graphic designer and textile print designer for Kini Zamora and other indie apparel brands. Responsibilities include:
• Developing new print elements from scratch based on Native Hawaiian flora, fauna, and other graphic motifs in both vector and raster formats.
• Using photographs, traditional art techniques, and historical documents/media as assets for creating original prints.
• Creating seamless repeating prints, including all-over, directional, and border prints.
• Altering, expanding, and remixing the brand's archival prints.
• Producing new colorways for the brand's archival prints for new releases.
• Creating custom prints and colorways for the designer's client commissions and couture garments.
• Finalizing print files for screen printing and dye-sublimation fabric printing and product manufacturing.
• Assembling marketing materials for social media content based on each collection's prints.
• Researching color trends and developing innovative color palettes.
Photographer, 2010-Present
Commercial lifestyle, fashion, and editorial photographer. Assignments have included lifestyle branding imagery for fashion brands, editorial fashion stories, catalog imagery for print and web, etc. Twelve years of experience in the fashion industry from the marketing side has influenced how I look at developing textile prints.
Select Clients:
KINI ZAMORA
MANAOLA HAWAII
TIDEPOOL LOVE
PEPSI
STATE OF HAWAII
BIKINI BIRD
2CHILLIES SWIMWEAR
SALTY GIRL JEWELRY
HINA HAWAII
HONOLULU MAGAZINE
HAWAII MAGAZINE
MODERN LUXURY HAWAII
ALA MOANA MAGAZINE
INSIDE OUT HAWAII
FLUX HAWAII
Accomplishments
• Designed the Kini Zamora Fall 2020 Palapalai print that was used in a collaboration with REDValentino in the 2021 Chelsea in Bloom capsule collection.
• Designed the Kini Zamora Resort 2021 Monstera print, which was the most pre-ordered collection in the brand's history.
Education
University of Hawaii at Manoa
BA, Studio Art
2004-2008
Focus on illustrative oil painting and darkroom photography.
Honolulu Community College
AAS, Fashion & Apparel Design
Certification in Flat Patternmaking and Computer Grading (Gerber)
2016-2019
Education and training in clothing construction, industrial sewing, flat patternmaking, designing, textiles, fashion sketching, grading, marking and cutting - both manual and computerized.