Designer

 

About

Lizzy painting nature scenes on a wall

Style

Lizzy Morrison is a designer and entrepreneur in Santa Barbara, California. Born and raised in Chicago, educated in Hawaii, Montana, CA and abroad, she specializes in lifestyle fashion apparel, vintage collections, building colorful palettes, and trend forecasting.

Her work integrates progressive aesthetics, dedication to environmental sustainability, and the inspiration she draws from contemporary arts and life on the Pacific coast.

Anchored by her love for French fashion and her Hawaiian family roots, while focused on solutions for modern life, she balances elegance, functionality, bold colors and unexpected combinations to imbue every project with distinctive timelessness.

 
Lizzy picking out color swatches

Experience

Lizzy has refined her craft and sharpened her eye through formal training at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, extensive international travel for design and cultural research, a fellowship in fine arts in Spain in 2019, and more than 15 years of freelance fashion and design consultation for private clients, commercial photographers, and print and online media.

Most recently, during seven years as a designer at Patagonia, Lizzy worked to modernize the company’s legendary function-focused approach. Collaborating across design and technical teams, she helped interweave material innovations, contemporary aesthetics, and activism-centered storytelling into revered design traditions. 

Lizzy Morrison sees a world overflowing with beauty; her life’s work is to reveal it and share it generously with the world.

 

Travel for Design

Inspired by nature

Testimonials

 “I worked with Lizzy for multiple years at Patagonia. Lizzy has an incredible sense of style and trend and she brought on-point inspiration season after season. Lizzy‘s greatest strength though is her ability to both invoke early concept ideas while also navigating the real limitations and frameworks that are critical to actually bring product to market at scale successfully.”

-Jenna Johnson, President, Patagonia

“I have worked closely with Lizzy for 8 years and I can tell you that she’s one of the most hard working, accommodating and talented designers I’ve ever had the pleasure of collaborating with. 

She is absolutely fearless and thinks outside of the box. Her work is super inspiring and her mood boards are beautiful.  She can also stay cool under pressure which is necessary in today’s high paced work environment…especially in design.

Lizzy has an awesome, intelligent sense of humor and can hands down outwit any man or woman!”

— Heidi Lister-Hevesy, Sr. Textile Designer, Patagonia

“Lizzy is a creative, hard-working, joy to be around. No task is too big or too small, she takes each project on with enthusiasm, ensuring that all voices are heard, then executes the teams plan to perfection.”

— Shayne Mihalka, CEO, Founder Underdog Media

“Lizzy has an incredible holistic sense of the product process, from concept to design, and to market merchandising and color, she understands how to interpret market needs to create compelling and timeless products!

Lizzy has been a true leader and merchandising mentor for me. She has proven she can lead teams through tight timelines and a complex design processes...and she is a delight to work with!”

— Eric Wallis, Global Product Line Manager, Mountain Bike and Snow, Patagonia

“Lizzy became by stylist over 6 years ago and she came with such happiness and enthusiasm! She mixes fashion with comfort and style. She’s is the most energetic, resilient and caring person and stylist I know.” 

-Valerie Alger, Stylist Client

“Lizzy brings creativity and positive energy to each project she works on. Her work ethic and vision for color/trend/design led the direction for our team and added immense value to our product creation process at Patagonia!”

— Jessica Rogers, Global Product Line Manager, Trail Performance Knits, Patagonia

“I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Lizzy over the last several years. She has such talent and expertise in bringing life and color to a product line and understanding how to strike the perfect balance between high volume and progressive palette options. Also appreciated is Lizzy's effectiveness in storytelling and helping our merchandising and buying teams to understand how to market and highlight our seasonal color stories in the most authentic way. On a personal note, every interaction I have had with Lizzy has been a genuine pleasure. She is always positive, professional and respectful and puts her heart and passion into everything she does.”

— Josephine Lynch, Merchandiser, Product Marketer, Patagonia

“Lizzy has the rare ability to blend creativity, intuition and vision with collaboration, perspective and adaption. Skilled at working with limited time and resources and while balancing the wide ranging needs of everyone involved, Lizzy never fails to delver fresh, brilliant, and original work.”

— Linden Mallory, Global Product Line Manager, Alpine, Patagonia

 

Featured Portfolio: Technical Collection

Patagonia Color Design

Get in touch

Aloha and thank you for visiting my site. I will be sure to get back to you as soon as I see your name pop up!

 (831) 236-5503

 Lizzy@lizzymorrisondesigns.com

🖈 Santa Barbara, CA