CAD For Textile And Fashion Print Design—A Short Course At Nottingham Trent University
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· Level: Professional
· Entry requirement: You should have professional or academic experience in fashion design.
Level(s) of study: Short course
Study mode(s): Short course
Location: City Campus
Starting: 17 August 2020
Course duration: Monday to Friday 10 am - 4 pm, one week
On this practical, Apple Mac-based course, you’ll learn how to experiment with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to enhance your creativity and technical skills to create innovative digital textile designs and patterns.
This course is ideal for textile and fashion print designers at the start of their career.
So long as you’ve an interest in textiles, fashion or surface pattern design you’ll be welcome to attend.
Ideally you’ll bring to the course textile or fashion print designs that you’re currently working on or which inspire you, so as to ensure you get the most out of the practical projects.
The course leader will teach specific skills related to your own requirements.
The course will be taught on Apple Mac computers and, whilst no software experience is required, you should be confident in saving files and basic computer functions.
What will you gain?
By the end of the course you’ll have a have a good understanding of how the computer software can be used in different specialist areas to enable you to digitally reproduce your designs for commercial use.
You’ll also start to create a portfolio of new digital artwork that can be used for work or to enhance a CV, or be a part of a college application.
Indicative maximum class size: 10
Need accommodation for a summer course?
You can book a self-catered, single room with private bathroom on our city campus, right next door to our studios and classrooms: www.ntu.ac.uk/summeraccommodation
On this course, you will:
learn how to digitise and develop your designs using computer aided design (CAD)
learn how designers use CAD today to create innovative new work, and how they are thinking about textile design in the future
be introduced to techniques through group demonstrations and benefit from one-to-one tutorials to aid your development
learn about different pattern repeats, styles and layouts
learn how to create repeat patterns using Adobe Creative Suite to utilise your area of specialism: textile or fashion print design
experiment with software painting and drawing tools, image manipulation, pattern, repetition, texture and colour
learn how to create colour palettes using digital images
research current trends in textile design and fashion print
have the opportunity to create your own brief based on your own area of interest and personal style
be able to create and save digital files in the correct formats for print.
Whilst no software experience is required, you should be confident in saving files and basic computer functions.
One week (17 - 21 August 2020)
The fee for this course is £650.
Payment is due at the time of booking.
