Ivan Volchenskov

Ivan Volchenskov

CEO & Co-Founder of NewArc.ai. A serial entrepreneur and tech geek, building AI tools to help designers visualize ideas in fashion, apparel, and footwear.

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Use your photos, illustrations, or sketches to visualise multiple concepts for your design projects.

Easy Fashion Design Sketches: Your Starter Guide to Fashion Flats

Getting to Know Fashion Sketches and Flats Effective communication is the foundation of great fashion design. Any garment begins as a simple idea translated onto paper or screen before making its way to production in one way or another. Fashion flats play an undeniably important role here as seemingly unassuming, yet invaluable, technical drawings that reduce the gap between tangible creation and creative vision. Fashion Flats Explained: What They Are and Why They Matter Fashion flats are of

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15 Must-Have Apps for Every Fashion Designer in 2025

Why Fashion Designers Are Embracing Digital Tools The average design studio in 2025 has very little in common with its counterpart from just 10 years ago. Screens and styluses now completely dominate the same areas and workflows in which cutting tables and paper sketches once played a prominent role. The shift is more than aesthetic, but a fundamental transformation in the way fashion comes to life. Modern designers navigate a complex landscape in which physical and digital realms are fundamen

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Clo3D Alternatives and Competitors

General description of Clo3D Clo3D revolutionized the apparel design process by providing designers with a virtual workspace in which garments are easily created, fitted, and visualized without the necessity to produce physical samples with each design change. The software combines accurate fabric physics and intuitive pattern-making tools, which allow designers to see how materials will drape and flow on digital avatars. Such capability has proven itself especially valuable for businesses that

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How to Land a Job in Design: Five Essential Tips for Aspiring Footwear Designers

At NewArc.ai, a huge part of our mission is empowering the next generation of forward-thinking designers. One of the overall reasons this blog even exists is exactly that – because we believe in the power of collaboration in the creative industries. Having such a wealth of expertise onboard within our designer community, we do our best to channel this wisdom to its more junior members – including design students. This is a good moment to remind you that NewArc.ai is available to all design stud

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What you've created in June 2024

It’s summertime – which in the world of design usually means brighter colours, bolder concepts and lots of swimwear, and our creative community is slaying the trends (as they always do!). Let’s take another tour into the world of imagination – full of futuristic sneakers, couture wear and beautiful landscapes (if only we could generate our summer vacation destinations the same way we can do with digital fashion!) Some Designers We Always Keep an Eye On: AD Martinez – Sneakerhead Designer fro

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