Design: Fashion And Textiles

Descripción

Aimed at ambitious graduates, this practice-based MA course is supported by marketing theory.

Staff have broad national and international industry experience which underpins and informs the course.

Develop your creative design practice and thinking, while building valuable marketing and business skills.

Alumni enjoy diverse career destinations with many successfully working for themselves.

This course offers ambitious individuals the opportunity to become designers, designer-makers or textile artists, either within the professional industries or to set up small businesses working independently or in small teams.

The programme of study allows you to freely develop creative design practice and thinking in conjunction with valuable marketing and business skills, building comprehensive understanding, vision and direction.

✔ Requisitos

Admission is normally based on a good undergraduate degree in a design or media discipline together with an interview. Applicants with a good honours degree in a related discipline and/or with relevant work experience will also be considered. To help applicants – especially those from overseas – to decide if this course is appropriate for them, it is advisable to contact the Course Director prior to application.

Who is it intended for?

The main aim of the course is for students to identify and develop their own employment opportunities. Possible directions may include textile design, product or fashion design, retail or sales and marketing opportunities, trend prediction and promotion, teaching or further research in industry or education, and/or exhibiting in galleries as a textile artist.

Alumni work in a variety of sectors and levels of different industries typically:

- Studio Designer

- Free-lance Designer

- Industrial Designer

- Designer-Maker (Small Business Practice)

- Practicing Textile Artist

- Public / Private Arts Design and/or Management

- Retail and Display Management

- Styling

- Academic careers in a further or higher education institutions

- Museums and Collections

- Numerous ‘Portfolio’ Careers

🏁 Objetivos

The course is developed through seminars, lectures, tutorials, visiting speakers, group critiques, market research and personal research.

You will be introduced to research skills and methods, product development, design management and methods, with marketing and business skills. The emphasis of the course is learning how best to present ideas, and where and how to place them in the market.

Students develop and propose a personal route of study and explore and research an area of textiles in knit, print, weave, or embroidery for fashion or interiors, textile art, or in fashion design.