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Short Courses 2012
Textile Print Design with Adobe Illustrator
This course is aimed at textile designers, fashion designers, artists, photographers, and creative people who wish to expand their CAD knowledge with Adobe Illustrator. This is a perfect follow-on course from Digital Design for Fashion Fabrics.
- 5 weeks starting March 3rd 2012.
- Saturdays 10-4
- Cost: £550
- Maximum 10 people
Digital Design for Fashion Fabrics
This course is aimed at textile designers, fashion designers, artists, photographers, and creative people with an interest in the subject. The skills learnt may also be applied to interiors fabrics and wallpapers.
Using Photoshop on Mac computers, the course fosters personal textile design practice through gaining the knowledge of the program.
- Week 1: Presentations about digital print, the design process and design development. Examples of digital print in the fashion industry, and introduction to Fabpad printing facilities.
- Introduction to Photoshop, scanning in images and image capture.
- Week 2: Designing with Photoshop
- Week 3: Creating repeats with Photoshop
- Week 4: Designing onto a garment shape
- Week 5: Final visualization and printing.
Saturdays 10-4, starting September 29th 2012
Cost: £680 Maximum 5 people
At the end of each course students will have 1 metre of fabric printed with their own designs. This is included in the course price.
About the lecturer: Vicki Fong completed her BA at Brighton University, before graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006 with an MA in Printed Textiles. Her method mixes traditional skills of illustration, screen-printing etc with modern effects afforded by computers. Digital technology helps her master repeats more effectively and provides her with an endless capacity for colour and scale. Vicki uses these techniques to apply her art onto different surfaces: from everyday fashion and interiors to gallery installation pieces.
Vicki now lives and works as a freelance designer and visual artist in London. She has also worked as a visiting lecturer at Brighton University, Winchester School of Art, Swansea Metropolitan University, and currently lectures at University of East London, as a specialist lecturer in printed textiles design and digital media.
To reserve your place, you can register online, call Fabpad on 020 8223 2560 or e-mail fabpad@uel.ac.uk
