About the Course
Class sections are small, 18-20 students, allowing for more individualized attention. This is a skills-based course in which sequential information + skills are learned and used.
Unlike a lecture-based course, missing a class or not being on time can have serious consequences in terms of the student being able to fully master the required skills for success in this course.
Students are required to be on time + present for each class. Students are also required to turn in assignments + projects on the specific date + time.
This class is restricted to students enrolled in either the Interior Design or Apparel Design program.
This course is about process: looking, thinking and creating. Through critique, discussion and assignments you will train your eye, your knowledge, and your hand to work together as a designer. You will build on your present design communication and literacy skills - expanding and honing them to support your individual relationship to the process of designing.
You will learn to define design as an active process rather than a passive outcome. You will discover + better understand your role in this process and will learn to apply, with ever greater efficiency and efficacy, your abilities as a designer.
Layout is the placement of one motif relative to another. It takes into account the distance as well as the direction of the second motif in relation to the first motif.
You will create your layouts in Adobe Photoshop. Each of your layouts should be created in a 4" x 4" document. Save each of your layouts as both .psd and .jpeg formats in your lyts folder located on the s: drive. Remember to name each of your layouts without vowels or spaces.
This is your first opportunity to create original textile designs. Using Adobe Photoshop, you will design floral, traditional + ethnic textiles.
The size of the canvas is 6" x 6" and one colorway of the design.
Save both a .psd + .jpeg version of your work.
The jpg versions of the textiles you create will be inserted into the corresponding html page for your website and uploaded.
For this assignment, you will create original textile designs using Adobe Illustrator based on the concepts of geometric | abstract, contemporary | modern + children's | teens.
The size of the canvas is 6" x 6" and one colorway of the design.
Save both a .psd + .jpeg version of your work.
The jpeg versions of the textiles you create will be inserted into the corresponding html page for your website and uploaded.
You will create an online portfolio for your work from this class. In addition, you will save all your work on either a cdr or a usb at the end of the semester.
Please Note: you will turn in your assignments via uploading to the web.
As a textile designer, you will create a textile collection consisting of a main textile repeat with a coordinating textile repeat. You will also create two different colorways of the main textile design repeat. The collection will be created based on a specific client brief.
The software for this project is Adobe Illustrator.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector based program and it is important for you to be able to create | design in this type of environment. You will use a drawing or illustration of an apparel or furniture product/item to showase your textile designs in repeat.
You will need to create a specific presentation layout | design format for your collection. The presentation layout of your work is as important as your textile designs.
Interior Design
a. collection description
b. textile design one repeat
c. two colorways of textile design one repeat
d. textile design two repeat
e. illustrate textile design one on furniture
f. illustrate textile design two on furniture
Apparel Design
a. collection description
b. textile design one repeat
c. two colorways of textile design one repeat
d. textile design two repeat
e. illustrate textile design one on an illustration, float or flat
f. illustrate textile design two on an illustration, float or flat
You will create another textile collection consisting of a main textile with a coordinating textile. You will also create two different colorways of the main textile design. The collection will be created based on a specific client brief.
The software for this project is Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop is a raster based program and it is important for you to be able to create/design in this type of environment. You will use a photograph of an apparel or furniture product/item to showase your textile designs in repeat. You will use a texture-mapping technique to apply your textile designs in repeat so that they appear 'real' in the photograph unlike in collection one when they appeared computer-generated when applied to your illustrations | drawings.
You will need to create a specific presentation layout | design format for your collection. The presentation layout of your work is as important as your textile designs.
Interior Design
a. collection description
b. textile design one repeat
c. two colorways of textile design one repeat
d. textile design two repeat
e. illustrate textile design one on furniture
f. illustrate textile design two on furniture
Apparel Design
a. collection description
b. textile design one repeat
c. two colorways of textile design one repeat
d. textile design two repeat
e. illustrate textile design one on an illustration, float or flat
f. illustrate textile design two on an illustration, float or flat
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Department of
Clothing, Textiles + Interior Design College of
Human Environmental Sciences
The University of Alabama
Map:
100 East Annex
E-mail: textiledesign@ua.edu
Phone:
205.348.6176
