Architecture | Digital Arts & Visual Communication | Fashion Textiles | Fine Art | Visual Theories | Foundation
Studying fashion and textiles at UEL is a great experience. Staff are very well connected within the fashion and textile industry, resulting in programmes that are highly relevant to careers in the industry. As well as enabling you to acquire a wide range of essential practical skills, the programmes also reflect the industry’s diverse and multi-faceted nature. Marketing adds an understanding of consumers and buying behaviour, retail and manufacturing operations, and business planning. Graduates are highly employable as there are many opportunities to work with industry on live projects and industrial placements.
Fashion & Textiles is a very well-established area within the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts (AVA), and has gained national and international recognition through Graduate Fashion Week, New Designers and international and national design awards. You will gain specialist knowledge in your chosen field, which is developed throughout the programme, especially in the final year. Graduates of these programmes are highly employable and work in many areas of the fashion and textile design industries.
All fashion programmes share a common first semester which includes design, marketing, forecasting and prediction and visual theories. At the end of the first semester, specialist programme choices are made.
Printed Textiles has an independent first year, which includes drawing, design, forecasting, colour theory, CAD, print techniques and visual theories.
Fashion Design with Marketing students are placed in industry for between six to eight months. During this period you will become a paid employee, contributing to a company related to your specialism, either in design, promotion, marketing, buying or retail management. Fashion Design, Fashion Futures and Printed Textile students also have the opportunity of a placement with industry to enable them to put into practice skills and techniques that they have acquired. Placements are usually carried out between Years 2 and 3.
There is regular input from industry on all programmes. Visiting speakers give seminars about their role in contemporary industry, and companies set assignment briefs, often coming in to UEL to brief students and to contribute to the final assessment. You also work with design studios and agencies with international reputations, with outcomes often being live project assignments, placements and international visits.
Teaching methods include tutored studio practice, lectures, seminars, workshops and supervision. Assignments focus on problem-based learning. Regular opportunities are provided for you to organise cat walk shows and exhibit your work within the School of AVA and outside. Assessment is continuous, with major assessment being held at strategic points throughout the year. Feedback is given verbally and in writing, in studio tutorials, group crits and through appropriate written formats.
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Your opportunity to see the campus, studios and workshops, meet students and staff, ask questions.Open Days >>
Details of Degree Shows, external exhibitions and national design shows.Showcase 10 >>
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