Meet our Design Team

Wallace Cotton is made up of many teams who work together and across the business to deliver beautiful collections of bed linen, home essentials, sleep and daywear; from concept to customer. Read on to meet our Design Team and discover what their roles are and how they contribute to making Wallace Cotton a lovely place to work and a lovely place to shop.

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Meet Anna

What’s your job title?
Graphic Designer

How long have you worked at Wallace Cotton?
18 years.

What are your key tasks?
I am responsible for all the printed material our stores and head office require. This includes our beautiful seasonal journal, in-store signage and packaging, promotional signage, in-store imagery, advertising material, stationery, online journals and gift guides. Keeping it all on brand and looking as good as our gorgeous products. I also lead and support the wonderful Design Team.

What do you love about your job?
I love working with the great team of people at Wallace Cotton – inspiring, creative and smart. I often work on many different tasks in a day so every day is rewarding. And I absolutely love seeing the conceptual designs turn into beautiful products on the shop floor.

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Meet Zoe

What’s your job title?
Senior Textile Designer

How long have you worked at Wallace Cotton?
6 years.

What are your key tasks?
Alongside Amy, creating surface patterns and designs (either hand-painted or digitally created) to go across a range of beautiful quality products. Choosing colours, knits, and weaves for textiles, and checking samples and swatches that come in from our suppliers. Trend forecasting and keeping an eye on overseas markets to bring new and exciting textile and design ideas to the process, while making sure the Wallace Cotton aesthetic and quality is always there.

What do you love about your job?
This is such a fun and varied creative role. Our product range is wide which means getting to design for lots of different applications, from textiles to packaging. Every day can bring a different creative task, from hand-painting large flowers, to sketching cute animals for a cot range, creating designs for embroidery, lining up stripe or check patterns, choosing colours for plain dyed items, or designing packaging for a fragrance range. Being creative and working with beautiful quality homeware every day is a dream, and the people I get to work alongside at Wallace Cotton are all so kind and great at what they do!

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Meet Amy

What’s your job title?
Senior Textile Designer

How long have you worked at Wallace Cotton?
Just over 5 ½ years.

What are your key tasks?
As one of two Senior Textiles Designers I co-manage the textile design process from start to finish. Working in collaboration with Zoe, I research, forecast homeware trends, and create designs to go across the wide range of home and garment products that we have at Wallace Cotton. I am also in charge of all the studio/web photography and colour matching the product so there is consistency between the studio and the seasonal location imagery.

What do you love about your job?
I love the people I get to work with and the variation within my role - no two days are the same. I really enjoy getting to be hands on in the ‘creating’ stage of the design process, whether it is water colour painting a fish or lino cutting a botanic print. It is so fulfilling seeing my designs come to life and how they are enjoyed out in the world.

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Meet Bronwyn

What’s your job title?
Visual Merchandising Manager & Photography Stylist

How long have you worked at Wallace Cotton?
Over 6 years.

What are your key responsibilities?
My role includes retail interior design, product styling for photography, and in-store merchandising. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed designing and project managing our new store fit-outs across New Zealand and London, as well as creating distinctive pop-up displays for the UK’s seasonal gift fairs.

The role is incredibly varied—one day, I might be drafting layouts for a new store, sourcing furniture, or overseeing on-site fit-outs. The next, I could be selecting props and styling beautiful ranges on location for a photoshoot. Being part of the design team lets me help capture the unique mood and atmosphere of Wallace Cotton’s in-house designs and showcase them across our stores.

What do you love about your job?
The people I work with! Each day, I feel grateful to collaborate with so many talented individuals across all areas of the retail industry. Working closely with different departments at our Head Office, alongside our incredible Retail Teams, Wholesalers, Photographers, and skilled Shop Fitters, keeps every day dynamic and exciting. But the best part is interacting directly with our wonderful customers—they’re the reason behind everything I do!

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Meet Michelle

What’s your job title?
Visual Merchandiser & Stylist

How long have you worked at Wallace Cotton?
I first began as a part time retail assistant in Takapuna in 2015 so 9 years with a short break of study in between.

What are your key tasks?
I am so lucky I get to regularly visit each of our beautiful stores and be creative with all things merchandising. I work with all our amazing store staff in planning how to display our beautiful product this involves changing things up to create change and enhance our shoppers in-store experience. I also provide a stylist service (a one on one with customers seeking expertise interior design advice).

What do you love about your job?
I love that I get variety in my role. No two days are the same! I really love the people and I am so lucky that I get to travel around and see all of our staff all the time. I am surrounded by a great bunch of people.

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