Digital Textile Design Online Short Course

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.

Topics covered

• Working with a brief
• Design development
• Working with trends
• Colour space studies
• Creating a colourway
• Using photoshop and illustrator packages
• Drawing with brushes and working with layers and filters
• Developing your drawings and forms with texture, composition and scale
• Mark making with an iPad
• Repeats: block/half-drop/allover/seamless
• Placement/engineered print
• Technical information: types of printing/dyes
• Specialist materials/fabrics
• Sustainability: reduction of waste
• Slow fashion/upcycling
• Digital portfolio
• Digital bureaus: file preparation