Alice RutherfordInterview
Textile designer, illustrator
Adapted from Alice Rutherford's interview on Uses This, published 7 April 2015. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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At my job I have a PC -- a Dell with 8GB ram, dual monitors (also Dell), and a Wacom tablet with mouse & pen.
We have an art team of 9 people and share a big Epson scanner, a lightbox, & a bunch of art supplies.
We also have three large format Epson printers which have been converted to use DigiFab sublimation inks instead of CMYK to approximate the more vivid colors in which the artwork will ultimately be screenprinted.
My main computer is a 2009 Mac Pro that my boyfriend helped me trick out -- he works at a university and they were selling off their old models so I got the tower for $20.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
Design
We also use NedGraphics which is a niche software for textile designers that caters specifically to making repeats, cleaning and separating colors, and quickly switching colorways.
Media
Other
We use Evolution RIP for printing; another niche software targeted to repeating patterns and indexed color palettes.