Design and Textiles (A/T/M)
Design and Textiles allows students to become discerning consumers in a global marketplace. They develop confidence to pursue a variety of study options, employment and lifelong leisure activities.
A variety of topics are explored including garment making; surface design (including fabric dyeing, printing, embroidery, applique); structural design (including weaving, knitting and felting); recycling, upcycling, sustainability; costume design (including items for college performances); marketing textile items and negotiated study.
Design and Textiles can also be combined with Designed Environments, Design and Graphics or Engineering to achieve a major, major-minor or double major in Design and Technology.
The following units can be used to make up a Design and Textiles course.
Design Aesthetics
This unit examines the value of aesthetics and its relationship to design theory. Students engage with established methodologies for generating creative design concepts. They investigate and experiment with strategies for idea generation and product development, incorporating the medium of textiles.
Design for Purpose
This unit examines how designers create for end purpose, using relevant criteria and considering the user’s experience. Students engage using a range of textile mediums to design solutions and create a product with consideration given to needs, purpose and product performance.
Design for Futures
This unit examines the future of design within the context of textiles. Students examine technological tools and processes to create solutions and/or products for the 21st century, with special consideration given to sustainability.
Design for Communication
This unit examines communication theories, methodologies and meanings within the area of design and textiles. Students develop skills in effectively disseminating ideas to convey visual messages in the design, making and promotion of solutions and/or textiles products. They utilise a range of tools to communicate and make meaning.