Love Fashion? Want to be a Fashion Designer? This is the perfect place for you to further develop your fashion sense and explore the techniques used in fashion design at an intermediate level. This course will benefit you whether you are in further or higher education, hoping to work as a designer, running your own business or if you simply want to learn how to create Fashion design sketches for fun. You will learn how to research and develop design ideas, draw inspiration from a range of influences and use a wide variety of materials and media. Explore the use of shape, colour, texture and proportion. Design Menswear, Womenswear or gender neutral clothing: the choice is yours. Learn about the world of the fashion designer, the design process and the basic stages and learn to design your own small themed capsule collection. The course focuses on the 2-Dimensional creative stages: developing fashion ideas from research using sketch books, mood boards, design boards and design sketches.
Fashion Design for Sustainability
When & Where
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4 November 2024 - 9 December 2024 ( 18 hours, 6 weeks )
- Evening, Monday
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View course timetable
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Waterloo Centre
Quick Facts
- Availability Yes
- Tutor Jill Kennedy-McNeill
- Course Code W24FASD01A
- Suitable For 19 year olds and up are permitted on this course
What you will learn
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- to develop your own designs
- to use fashion drawing skills
- to create attractive layouts in your research, mood board and design presentation
- to select a suitable colour palette for your designs
- to produce a capsule collection of designs
Cost
Class format and activities
Teaching is both to the whole class and on an individual, one-to-one basis using demonstrations, discussion, examples, samples, hand-outs and other technical support material where appropriate. You will receive feedback throughout your course to help you develop your skills. For you to be able to achieve on this practical class punctuality and attendance are key. Please inform your tutor of any absences. Microsoft Teams will be used for general class specific communication and for posting additional information. Health and safety inductions are planned into your course delivery, and you are asked not to use any machinery or specialist equipment until you have received specific training. Morley provides a positive and friendly atmosphere and to support this all students should be considerate and kind and work in a collegiate and collaborative way and to not monopolise the tutor.
Entry requirements
This is an intermediate course. Make sure that you have the skills required to join by successfully completing some of our beginner’s courses in a related field or be able to show an equivalent competence in the subject area.
What you need to know before you enrol
Activities in class can involve standing at high tables for a period of time. Please let the tutor know if this would be difficult for you. The fashion studios are on the first floor of the Nancy Seear building and there is lift access to the first floor. Please note the eating and drinking is not allowed in the fashion studios - you are allowed to have bottled water. Students must be able to read, write and understand fluent English. Digital, mathematics and numeracy skills are desirable but not essential. .
What you need
• HB pencil or mechanical/propelling pencil,• Sharpener,• Eraser,• ruler ,• Pritt stick,• Blu tack ,• A3 sketch book,• A3 plastic transparent art file (to carry your work in ),• A4 envelope file (to organise research in.),• watercolours and watercolour brushes ,• notepad and pen ,• Fineliner fibre tip pens (0.1 & 0.5 nibs),• Magazines Fashion e.g: Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Pop, Glamour, Elle, ID, Dazed, Love. Other equipment you may wish to purchase will be discussed in your first session.
