In this class, we will focus on the collaborative relationship between industry studio communication and industry production communication. Ranging from conceptual to technical design communicated through analog and digital techniques, students will create effective and compelling design and technical presentations reflective of their evolving design identity across multiple platforms. We will also examine how creative digital visualization techniques constantly evolves the fashion creation process influencing contemporary visual design. Printing methods will be discussed enhancing an analog ideology on various media and materials focusing on color, texture and appearance. Students will explore society, materiality, surface design, construction techniques, illustration, and design functionality in context of fashion communication. Students will utilize both Adobe Creative Cloud apps and fashion industry proprietary software. In addition to figurative illustration, this course will also emphasize flat illustration and introduce garment specification as it relates to line building, measurement points, sample making and production. Symbols and garment iconography will be surveyed to communicate design intent beyond verbal communication. Class time will include hands-on exploration, technique demonstrations, project reviews, and lecture and discussion of societal influences reimaging fashion design and its communication. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to creatively communicate and present their fashion design concepts with the use of analog and digital tools in tandem meeting today’s and future global fashion system and technical practices.

In this class, we will focus on the collaborative relationship between industry studio communication and industry production communication. Ranging from conceptual to technical design communicated through analog and digital techniques, students will create effective and compelling design and technical presentations reflective of their evolving design identity across multiple platforms. We will also examine how creative digital visualization techniques constantly evolves the fashion creation process influencing contemporary visual design. Printing methods will be discussed enhancing an analog ideology on various media and materials focusing on color, texture and appearance. Students will explore society, materiality, surface design, construction techniques, illustration, and design functionality in context of fashion communication. Students will utilize both Adobe Creative Cloud apps and fashion industry proprietary software. In addition to figurative illustration, this course will also emphasize flat illustration and introduce garment specification as it relates to line building, measurement points, sample making and production. Symbols and garment iconography will be surveyed to communicate design intent beyond verbal communication. Class time will include hands-on exploration, technique demonstrations, project reviews, and lecture and discussion of societal influences reimaging fashion design and its communication. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to creatively communicate and present their fashion design concepts with the use of analog and digital tools in tandem meeting today’s and future global fashion system and technical practices.