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The Design Process





howtofashiondesign | March 04, 2009
Many people don't know how to come up with their own original designs or where to draw inspiration from. With this DVD you will learn to develop your own personal design process.


















April 30, 2010
Bob Martin gives you a quick overview of his work so that you can begin to understand what the Design Process is. See the research he collected and how it became a mini collection.


howtofashiondesign | April 30, 2010
Bob gives you a list of things that you should look for when collecting your research for the design process.

Example of my mood-board, using the polyvore site
'Summer Days'


This is a presentation to explain what is involved in the design process and process journal.


The design brief
View more presentations from LorettaKreis.

Using Trend Information

If you worked in the textiles and fashion industry, your company would work well in advance of when the products may be required in shops and stores. To help you collate information, your design team and others responsible for collections would go to presentations and trade shows to gather information about the latest in:
  • Colours
  • Fabrics
  • Yarns
  • Finishers

Some of the key trade shows are:

Premiere Vision -for fabrics-
http://www.premierevision.com/en
100% Design for Interiors:
http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/
 Trend Boards

Trend Boards usually have a combination of information on them; fabric swatches, images, threads, pantone colours, and text, which can be used to sum up the effect that is needed.

Where can I look at trends?

Trendzine-

WGSN Worth Global Style Network. They are one of the leading on-line trend companies.

Trendstop- look at the latest trends and the latest in colours and fashion.

You will also look at what is happening in other areas such as:
  • Music
  • Art
  • Theater
  • Films

To help you plan and design products you will also look at:

  • what people spend on particular products
  • what is happening around the world
  • what different people of different age groups are spending their money on (demographics).

The trend information could be used as a starting point for product development. You could:
  • develop a new range of textile designs
  • use the colour information from the trend boards to form the basis of your own colour range
  • use the images on the trend boards as a starting point for developing new products or fabrics
  • create your own mood/theme boards to help summarise the visual information you have collated

The inquiry process

DEFINE
Refine the issue through:
·   Have I identified the issue?
·   Have I collected relevant information?
Refine the design challenge through:
·   Have I clarified the design challenge?
·   Have I identified constraints to be considered in decision-making?
ANALYSE
·   Have I considered a range of points of view relating to and issue/design challenge?
·   Have I explored skills required for the design challenge?

SYNTHESISE
·   Do I have evidence to develop decisions?
·   Have I formulated and implemented decisions for planning and management for the issue/design challenge?
·   Have I utilised appropriate techniques in the production and presentation of the product/s?

EVALUATE
·   Have I justified decisions?
·   Have I evaluated evidence and justified conclusions?
·   Have I made recommendations for improvement to processes and product?

PRODUCE
·   Have I communicated using accepted genres?
·   What is my decision/conclusion?
·   Have I effectively created my product?
·   Have I provided supporting documentation of the planning and decision making?

REFLECT
Re-examine the issue or design challenge, the research method and the outcomes:
·   Has a solution been found?
·   Do new questions arise?
·   What have I learnt that can inform future learning?


Critical thinking/reflecting throughout the process

Steps in a process journal
Process journal



Fashion Design Websites
Fashion Design: market research

Examine customer profiles: gender, age, workplace, hobbies and major spending habits.
Analyse results of a market survey of people's clothing preferences. Review pie charts and customer interviews. Compare the current survey results with last year's. As you go, look up the meaning of tricky words.

Fashion design: Studio

Explore how a fashion company works to design a range of clothes. Choose words to complete a description about tools of the trade. Answer questions about the roles of three departments within the company: market research, advertising and quality control. As you go, look up the meaning of words. This is is a series of four activities.

Clothing Production

Read through the resources of the left hand side of the page then do the activities for sew garments 1 and 2 and answer the questions on the worksheets provided by your teacher.

How to thread a needle

How to thread a sewing machine.



How to find a Straight Grain


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