FNTKS
Pronounced ‘phonetics’ — technical design agency
You don’t need to hire a full in-house team. FNTKS operates as your fractional technical design team — patternmaking, tech packs, CLO 3D and factory liaison, on demand, without the overhead of building it in-house.
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ORIM Athletics
Tiered football jersey system
A tiered kit — jersey plus short — for an independent school football program. Pattern development and design direction shaped by review sessions with players and coaching staff on fit, ventilation, durability and branding.
Open →N/ERA
Deconstructive asymmetry, seams + detail
Two garments, two failing patterns, corrected under real construction physics. The wrap pant's invisible-zip waistband solved a bulky elastic 'scrunchie' risk; the bodysuit's ballet envelope gusset fixed a kinetic entry failure. Both were greenlit for cutting after CAD validation.
Open →TOTUS
Tall performance knitwear & luxury joggers
A tall-fit AW26 collection in 300 GSM pima. The raglan tops — longsleeve, hoodie and tee — carry offset raglan seams that kill the accidental oversized read; the bottoms carry a four-point stay-tape cuff that ends the jogger ankle-roll.
Open →Radial pleat study balancing volume and movement in a single cropped silhouette.
Request a quote →Exploring the tension between rigid workwear shell and soft internal drape.
Request a quote →Cargo volume re-proportioned through clean panel breaks and pocket geometry.
Request a quote →Ruched quilting experiment pushing puffer insulation into sculptural territory.
Request a quote →Ski pant silhouette distorted by controlled ruching along the outer seam.
Request a quote →Knitwear piece inspired by shibori binding, translated into stitch tension and texture.
Request a quote →Denim leg line disrupted by moto-panel leather patches and exposed seam logic.
Request a quote →Who we
are
FNTKS is a technical design agency built around one idea - your vision matters, and it deserves to be executed accurately. That's why we operate as your fractional technical design team: patternmaking, tech packs, CLO 3D and factory liaison, embedded in your process without the overhead of a full in-house team.
We plug in as your technical design department - as much or as little as each brief needs - handling patternmaking, technical documentation, and factory liaison from concept through production.
Led by a technical designer and patternmaker with a background across major fashion houses, FNTKS brings heritage-level technical standards to brands who are just getting started - without the cost of building an in-house team.
You focus on the brand. We handle sourcing the specs, tracking production, and solving problems before they become revisions - so you get ship-ready results without juggling everything yourself.
Services
One executable document: BOM, construction detail, POM and grading a factory can build from without guessing.
A tech pack is the contract between an idea and a production line. Every callout is written so a factory reading it cold builds the garment you drew — no interpretation, no email chains, no sampling roulette.
- — Bill of materials with supplier references
- — Construction pages with stitch and SPI callouts
- — Points of measure and full size run grading
- — Trim, label and packaging spec
Flat pattern development and grading, built from draping and tuned for repeatable production.
Patterns are engineered, not traced. Blocks are drafted or draped to your fit intent, corrected against real construction physics, then graded for a run that behaves the same in every size.
- — First pattern and corrected sample pattern
- — Nested grade across the size run
- — Marker-ready DXF/AAMA export
- — Fit correction notes per sample round
Virtual fit and photoreal samples that cut physical iterations before the fabric is even touched.
Digital sampling moves fit decisions upstream. Patterns are simulated on an avatar in the real fabric's physical properties, so drape, stress and tension are visible before a single metre is cut.
- — 3D garment simulation on a sized avatar
- — Stress, strain and fit map readouts
- — Photoreal colourway renders
- — Turntable and flat-lay exports
Creative and technical direction across a range, from concept through to production-ready line.
Direction that carries technical weight: silhouette, fabric and construction decided together, so the range stays coherent and buildable from first concept to final line list.
- — Range architecture and line plan
- — Silhouette and fabric direction
- — Construction language across the collection
- — Concept-to-production review gates
Direct communication through sampling and pre-production, keeping construction intent intact to the last stitch.
Someone technical on your side of the conversation. Sample comments, corrections and approvals go to the factory in their language, with the construction intent protected the whole way through.
- — Sample comment sheets per round
- — Direct factory correspondence
- — Pre-production and PP sample sign-off
- — Production risk flags and timeline tracking
Flats, orthographic CADs and callouts carrying every construction decision.
Drawings that function as instructions. Proportional flats, orthographic views and exploded details that carry construction information a factory can build from and a buyer can read.
- — Front, back and side orthographic flats
- — Exploded construction details
- — Callout and annotation layers
- — Colourway and print placement flats
Process
Discovery Call
Understand your brand, product, and construction goals before any technical work begins.
Construction Audit
Reverse-engineer references, map construction logic, identify what the build actually requires.
Tech Pack / CLO Build
Full technical documentation and/or 3D digital sampling, iterated until factory-ready.
Factory Handoff & QC
Direct factory liaison through sampling and production, quality gates at every stage.
Pricing
One style, taken from sketch or reference to a factory-ready document. Bill of materials, construction callouts, points of measure and a graded size run.
- — Full bill of materials
- — Construction pages with stitch + SPI callouts
- — Points of measure and grading
- — One revision round
Ongoing technical support for a label in motion. Rolling tech packs, pattern corrections, sample comments and factory liaison across the month.
- — Rolling tech pack development
- — Pattern and fit correction
- — Sample review and comments
- — Direct factory liaison
A complete collection taken through technical development together — consistent blocks, shared trims and one coherent spec language across every style.
- — Collection-wide block consistency
- — Tech packs for every style
- — Shared BOM and trim library
- — Production handover pack