Seasonal looks originate in fashion capitals around the world, and designers race to adapt those pioneering trends into their own unique products – to be sourced, manufactured and sold in more territories today than ever before. Released in 2011, Verve Sketch is an unparalleled library of industrialised styles and components, featuring more than 10,000 vector images designed to streamline the creation of new products and enable designers to keep pace with customer demand. Profitability in the apparel industry demands the delivery of “fast fashion”: products that are on trend and on time.

Verve Sketch is cloud-based, and built upon Adobe’s Air framework. Since its launch the company has been committed to maintaining that agility, and the intervening period has seen the ongoing development of the Verve Sketch user interface, components library, and its integration with the full range of industry-standard design tools.

It is this commitment to agility and innovation that informed the company’s rebranding, as Rob Smith, Operations Officer of Verve Sketch Software Limited, explains:

“Our roadmap for the development of Verve Sketch is long-established, and I am thrilled by the progress our team has already made in developing the security and usability of the software. We are all committed to creating the most fully-featured, uniquely flexible design library on the market, so our decision to rebrand the company was the logical next step in a passion that has informed our work since the beginning.”

The continued development of Verve Sketch is unaffected by this rebranding, and Verve Sketch Software Limited invites representatives from every stage of product development to visit its new homes on the web to find out how – with no costly acclimatisation period or training – Verve Sketch can enable truly modern product development.

From today, Verve Sketch Software Limited can be found at the following addresses:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/vervesketch
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VerveSketchSoftware
G+ – https://plus.google.com/105329837364639006895
Linkedin – http://www.linkedin.com/company/verve-sketch-software-limited
Web address – http://www.vervesketch.com/
Email address – info@vervesketch.com

(MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, 5 JANUARY 2011) Verve Sketch Software will be present and demonstrating the Verve Sketch software at the NRF 101st Annual Convention & EXPO (a.k.a. ‘Retail’s Big Show’) from January 15-18th 2012, hosted at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in New York.

Our Operations Officer, Rob Smith, will be leading the expo drive and welcomes any opportunity to discuss the value of Verve Sketch with retailers and prospective clients.  Rob will also be meeting with a range of software vendors to discuss collaboration and integration potential.

If you fall into either category and would like to arrange a time to speak to Rob during the show – whether it’s about Verve Sketch or anything related – please contact us by completing the form below:

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“We use the Adobe suite heavily both in development of Verve Sketch and in its interface. Unfortunately we can’t ignore some of the issues that currently exist with diversity in software platforms and web-enabled devices across the industry. We want to ensure that all our clients and consumers can get full access to our product information through any device at any time. For this reason we have decided to move our web presence to HTML5 as it provides our users the richest browsing experience possible!” said Rob Smith, COO (Chief Operating Officer) at Verve Sketch Software.

The new web-site also lays the foundation for realising some of the new exciting features that Verve Sketch Software has on its roadmap for the product. The most notable being the new ‘design community’ allowing apparel creative designers and garment technicians the ability to provide direct input into the future development of Verve Sketch’s technical sketches and more generally the development of the product itself.

“We aren’t in the business of designing trend, but we are in the business of empowering product developers with the software and applications to be able to easily build trend quickly and efficiently. This comes from a team experience of over 37 years in the apparel and fashion industry. We know there are talented people out there who aren’t yet associated with a fashion house and we want to ensure that our clients equally are able to leverage their value without any IP and HR issues. Why try to force trend to designers and garment technicians, when they can have a growing, comprehensive product library full of all possible styles and components that is growing daily by a community of different developers both internal and external.“

The new Verve Sketch can be found at www.vervesketch.com.

]]> http://www.vervesketch.com/news/post/feed/ 0 http://www.vervesketch.com/features/future-roadmap/ http://www.vervesketch.com/features/future-roadmap/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:48:23 +0000 Editor http://www.vervesketch.com/?p=311 Our automatic update model ensures that all users have the latest version of the application available to them each time they log on. In an industry accustomed to sporadic, costly revisions, the adaptability of Verve Sketch is a breath of fresh air.

The following items comprise just the immediate steps of our roadmap, and each will be delivered seamlessly and without cost to our end users over the coming months:

• Full XMP meta-data embedded into the garment library allowing for an easier integration into the majority of apparel PLM systems;
• New size chart visual layers and point of measure images for specific product categories with both English and fully translated Chinese annotations;
• Specific ‘Trend’ category routinely updated with the latest and current fashion trend sketches from around the world;
• Multi-lingual application interface and supporting documentation;
• Image comparison panel to allow users to upload garment photos to assist in the sketch selection; and
• Fully customisable user interface and application visual theme.

]]> http://www.vervesketch.com/features/future-roadmap/feed/ 0 http://www.vervesketch.com/news/vector-vogue-announces-availability-verve-sketch-version-12/ http://www.vervesketch.com/news/vector-vogue-announces-availability-verve-sketch-version-12/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:58:04 +0000 Editor http://www.vervesketch.com/?p=151 (MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, 22 SEPTEMBER 2011) Verve Sketch Software Limited today announced the availability of Version 1.2 of their collaborative apparel design library Verve Sketch.

Specifically tailored for designers working in the apparel industry, Verve Sketch allows artists to choose from more than 10,000 industrialised vector drawings (menswear, womenswear and childrenswear) to streamline the creation of new trends.  The software’s library is composed of individual components – collars, darts and washing labels – right through to the larger building blocks that allow distributed teams to collaborate on the rapid design of new products while reducing the costs associated with sampling.

The latest release debuts a host of additional features, demonstrating the team’s ongoing commitment to improving and expanding the capabilities of their solution in line with a well-established roadmap.

Paramount among these improvements is an entirely new user interface: clean, simple and with a focus on usability.  Selected items now reside in a virtual shopping cart – viewable only when needed – and styles and components can be downloaded in both native Adobe Illustrator format or as a layered PDF, allowing compatibility with a wider range of retail vector drawing suites from Adobe CS, Corel Draw X5 and Microsoft Expression Design through to free open-source applications such as Inkscape.

Beyond significant security and stability changes, Version 1.2 has been designed with the end user experience firmly in mind.  Existing users are able to administer their accounts (resetting details and changing passwords from within the application), as well as making use of advanced, personalised history and favourites functionality.  Where designers and garment technicians use the same base styles and components – adapted each time – on a regular basis, the favourites functionality of Verve Sketch allows them to access these quickly and easily from within the application.

Verve Sketch is built on the Adobe Air framework, allowing seamless updating of the client application.  With a well-established and transparent road map in place, the Verve Sketch team have identified a set of key features that will be delivered at no additional cost to the user in the coming months.  These include visual costing functionality, the inclusion of detailed points of measure images and a new “style trends” category, designed to highlight the latest fashion industry developments from around the world.

In addition to this, the Verve Sketch developers are working closely with vendors to enable direct integration into a wide range of PLM solutions meaning from the go-live of PLM, your users have access to over 10,000 vector images all conceived in PLM and maintained within PLM for the full product lifecycle.

Verve Sketch’s peerless library of construction drawings are cloud-hosted, rapidly delivered, and cross-platform support (Windows, Mac, Linux and others) continues to be assured.  Delivered via the world wide web and soon to be available as a full  SAAS model and constantly updated with new styles, the latest release and upcoming features of Verve Sketch further empower designers and garment technicians to do what they do best – deliver the finest products, on-style and on time.

WhichPLM® is an independent news and information hub boasting a readership of key decision makers from apparel and retail companies actively looking for IT solutions in their company ranging from PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions to creative design applications.

WhichPLM verification essentially means that Verve Sketch has received an in-depth examination of every aspect of its functionality. The process is designed to mirror the buying experience of a prospective customer, meaning that potential customers can, at a glance, be certain that a supplier’s claims are substantiated by the actual solution and that it will meet their needs.

Visual 2000, based in Montreal, Canada, are the developers and suppliers of the Visual .Net range, which encompasses PLM solutions, ERP solutions, EDI software and more.  Their recent growth within the UK and European market is supported by a strong customer base in their home territory and, as Verve Sketch Software Sales Manager Rob Smith explains:

“Visual 2000’s software suite features a positive interface with Adobe Illustrator for apparel design and they really have a good understanding of the mid-market sector.  We are confident that they are the perfect partners to help us expand Verve Sketch’s audience in the Canadian market and start promoting the ‘true’ integration of the design team into the wider PLM system”

This arrangement coincides with similar reseller arrangements in the United Kingdom and United States, and comes as Verve Sketch undergoes its global launch.

Specifically tailored for designers working in the apparel industry, Verve Sketch allows artists to choose from more than 10,000 industrialised vector drawings (menswear, womenswear and childrenswear) to streamline the creation of new styles.  The software’s library is composed of individual components – collars, darts and washing labels – right through to the larger building blocks that allow distributed teams to collaborate on the rapid design of new products while reducing the costs associated with sampling.

Verve Sketch is built on the Adobe Air framework, and its peerless library of construction drawings are cloud-hosted.  With Verve Sketch, designers can assemble a virtual cart of the items they want, and in a single click have them imported into Adobe Illustrator, the de facto design tool for the fashion industry.  Cross-platform support (Windows, Mac, Linux and others) is assured.

Delivered on a SAAS model and constantly updated with new styles, Verve Sketch enables designers to do what they do best – deliver products on-style and on time.

To find out more about Verve Sketch, visit www.vervesketch.com

To find out more about Visual 2000, visit http://www.whichplm.com/plm-suppliers/visual2000.html