Fashion Textiles: Print – (B.A.)

Contents

Syllabus (11/12*)

Year 1

Year one provides you with a foundation of fundamental practical and technical knowledge and grounding in printed textiles techniques, pattern cutting, and proportions of the body, garment construction, silhouette, colour and illustration. As well as an original approach to mark making a fresh approach to the inherent and applied qualities of fabric is explored.

* Getting into print - provide you with the foundation of fundamental practical and technical knowledge and the grounding in printed textiles techniques, pattern cutting and research required to study the course.
* Designs on print - develop the idea of drawing/ image making as a means to both record and communicate your ideas visually.
* Re-invent - develop the idea of drawing/ image making as a means to both record and communicate your ideas visually.
* Fashion histories - provides an insight into fashion history and its most famous designers and creators, as well as looking at the industrial side of clothing manufacture and distribution.
* Pattern & repeat - introduces you to the exciting creative potential within the structural applications of pattern and repeat in textile design and how these devices can inform your design work.
* Fabulous techni-colour - you research a range of print ideas in fashion related to a choice of themes. You learn how to translate and manipulate your design ideas into digital formats. Colour palette, scale, layering as well as relevant CAD skills are explored as you experiment and develop your designs.
* Fashion theories - you focus on how theories can be applied to fashion within both its historical and contemporary practice.

Year 2

You move away from a staff-led schedule to a more student directed approach in which the you are encouraged to be increasingly self-motivated, self-reliant as well as original and confident in creative risk taking and exploring the exciting range of possibilities for printed textiles.

* Textile futures - focuses on samples, prints, fabric manipulation swatches and garment ideas, inspired by textile futures and new technology presented as a cohesive range. An imaginative and innovative application of surface pattern to cloth is encouraged.
* Creative print solutions - continued development and refinement of your specialist knowledge and skills combined in a live collaborative project context. It is expected that you will work with a best selling garment design, which will be supplied by a fashion designer or company.
* Trend concept - focuses on you as a professional designer and how you can present your ideas in a creative and inspirational format. A growing number of designers are developing promotional strategies for product ranges, which include not only fashion and accessories but also lifestyle products, which embrace home, travel and well being.
* Modernism and postmodernism - lectures and seminars acquaint students with the ideas of what is considered a modern cultural expression and how it can be 'read', which will then be applied to the theoretical reading of fashion.
* Company ID - production of a design statement in the development of a capsule collection of prints/ garments ideas for a specific market/ company. The unit focuses on a live project scenario in which a selected company profile, product lines, promotion and branding as well as future market are researched.
* Independent work placement
* Industry case study - you are required to investigate an aspect of the fashion textiles industry through the method of case study research.
* Research methodologies - lectures and seminars extend the analysis of the contemporary fashion system to examine its theoretical and cultural relevance.

Year 3

At the final stage of the course, you will be able to consolidate your acquired knowledge and understanding. This enables you to prepare for professional practice in your chosen career pathway through this final major project.

* Professional practice - you prepare for the major project by consolidating knowledge acquired during the previous four years. You are provided with the opportunity to begin to define your creative identity as a fashion print designer.
* Dissertation - substantial period of self-directed research on a subject that is related to the historical, theoretical or critical concerns of your discipline or professional area.
* Fashion textile print degree collection - opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to manage your independent project efficiently and in a professional manner.
* Signature portfolio - opportunity to demonstrate your individual creative identity as a fashion print designer in the production of your signature portfolio.

* Please note the syllabus content is for the academic year indicated and is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.