ART & DESIGN : TEXTILE DESIGN (FASHION & TEXTILES)

WHY STUDY FASHION & TEXTILES?

This course will enable you to use creative visualisation and drawing to develop design concepts alongside finished samples and products. You’ll develop research and practical skills, giving you a thorough understanding of the fashion process from concept to realisation.

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The aims and learning outcomes for these qualifications are to enable learners to develop:

• Intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive capabilities

• Investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgement

• Independence of mind in developing, refining and communicating their own ideas, their own intentions and their own personal outcomes

• The experience of working with a broad range of media

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COURSE CONTENT

Component 01: Personal investigation 
Learners should produce two elements: (i) a portfolio of practical work showing their personal response to either a starting point, brief, scenario or stimulus, devised and provided by the learner or centre (ii) a related study: an extended response of a guided minimum of 1000 words. 
 

Component 02: Externally set task 
The early release paper will be issued on 1 February and will provide learners with a number of themes, each with a range of written and visual starting points, briefs and stimuli. 
 

A response should be based on one of these options.

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:

• Textile Visionaries by Bradley Quinn

• World Textiles Atlas: The World Textiles Thesaurus and List of Journals

• YouTube is great for learning how to do different Textiles techniques

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