Digital textile designing Diploma

Course description

This course will help you explore the creative possibilities of digital textile design techniques, tools, and processes, from the design brief through to the completed collection, and will introduce you to the basics of colour, drawing, composition and repeats with step-by-step exercises and examples.

Through a series of creative projects, the course will provide you with an invaluable insight into the techniques and practice of digital textile surface design, and covers the latest digital print technologies as well as both hand and traditional techniques. You will use digital technologies to create and develop exciting designs and patterns, and then process them into output files which can be used in different methods of fabric printing and garment manufacturing. Throughout the course you will receive personal feedback on your work from the course tutor.

Course outcomes

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Research colour and materials

Demonstrate an ability to locate and evaluate information from a range of visual sources

Refine research and design development with an introduction to Photoshop and Illustrator

Create a successful repeat print design

Create a colour palette

Produce a digital portfolio including visualizations of designs

Work to a brief and develop a collection of printed textile designs for sustainable digital print output

Who is Digital Textile Design Online Short Course for?

This course is ideal for textile designers, fashion designers, digital artists or anyone who works or who would like to work in creative roles in the textiles, fashion, or interior furnishings industries. Textile previous experience is required.

Week Lecture Topic

Week 1 1. Course Overview and orientation

2.Overview of the textile industry and digital textile technology

Week 2 3. Advanced color theory and color management techniques

4.Color ways practice in different software

Week 3 5. Designing for large-scale digital printing

6.Practice on large scale

Week 4 7. large-scale print design suitable for digital printing on a specific fabric type

8.Create a large scale print

Week 5 9 Introduction to CAD software for digital textile design

10.Know how about all digital textile software

Week 6 11. Creating complex textile designs using CAD software

12.Research methodology

Week 7 13. Advanced techniques for creating surface designs and textures

14.How to redraw and recreate

Week 8 15. Create a collection of surface designs suitable for digital printing on different fabric types

16.Collection topic and research guide

Week 9 17. Advanced vector-based design techniques for digital textile design

18.Vectors files and illustrator

Week 10 19. Creating intricate designs using vector-based tools

20.Practice on illustrator

Week 11 21. Designing for fashion and home decor markets

22.Target market and Design limitations

Week 12 23. Create a collection of designs suitable for fashion or home decor markets

24.How we develop a capsule collection

Week 13 25. Advanced color separation techniques for digital textile printing

26.Work on channels in photoshop

Week 14 27. Collaborating with textile manufacturers and printers

28.Industrial guide

Week 15 29. Create a design collection for a textile manufacturer or printer

30.How to create a ready to print design

Week 16 31. Advanced techniques for designing 3D textiles

32.3D motifs rendering and shading

Week 17 33. Creating digital textile designs for product prototypes

34.Mapping for product design

Week 18 35 Intellectual property rights and protecting your designs

36Concept of water marks in textile design

Week 19 37 Create a 3D textile design prototype for a specific product

38Importance of mapping and Tec packs

Week 20 39 Advanced techniques for designing digital textile patterns for technical applications

40Practice of previous knowledge

Week 21 41 Designing for performance and function

42Industrial sizes and uses

Week 22 43 Finalizing design collections and building a portfolio

44Importance of digital portfolio

Week 23 45 Create a complete design collection

46Final product printing

Week 24 47 Final product execution

48Final product stitching/ making