Course Title: Apply electronic systems to textile design and production

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2010

Course Code: ISYS5658C

Course Title: Apply electronic systems to textile design and production

School: 350T Fashion & Textiles

Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program: C6086 - Advanced Diploma of Fashion and Textiles Merchandising

Course Contact : Russell Edis

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259496

Course Contact Email:russell.edis@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Janette Wotherspoon
Russell Edis

Nominal Hours: 80

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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

Use Electronic Fashion Design Tools GRAP5212C

Course Description

This unit covers the skills and knowledge to apply electronic systems to textile design and production processes

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	LMTTD6002A Apply electronic systems to textile design and production
Element:	1. Interpret textile design brief 2 Develop design concept using computer aided design system 3 Present and confirm design 4 Determine design specifications and machine settings 5 Finalise design
Performance Criteria:	1Interpret textile design brief 1.1Design brief is interpreted to determine design criteria 1.2Trends, themes and influences in textile design are researched and evaluated in line with brief 1.3Complexity of design is evaluated in terms of intricacy and range of features 1.4Workstation is set up according to OHS practices , and preliminary design concept images are created using relevant electronic system 2.Develop design concept using computer aided design system 2.1Scale and dimensional aspects of design are produced and adjustments made in line with design brief 2.2Design features are accurately incorporated into image using relevant software tools 2.3Colour palettes are developed and colour and tone effects are explored 2.4Colour palettes are selected and saved and computer screen and printer calibrated accordingly 2.5Texture and pattern effects are developed 2.6Other media is accessed electronically via internet or other networks and used in the creation of design concept 2.7Design concept features are integrated and design image is saved 3Present and confirm design 3.1Design image output is produced that accurately documents intricate design features, scale and dimension and incorporates design elements 3.2Storyboards are produced and presented using computer aided design processes 3.3Design is presented to client or appropriate personnel for review and modifications are made 4.Determine design specifications and machine settings 4.1Yarn and material requirements for design draft are calculated using computer aided design system 4.2Specifications are confirmed in line with textile design requirements and saved 4.3Patterns are produced 4.4Machine settings are calculated and calibrated with direct interface to textile production machinery where appropriate 5Finalise design 5.1Design and specifications are confirmed with client or production personnel and modifications saved where necessary 5.2Production plans and specifications are finalised and saved 5.3Final design and specifications are saved as hard copy and incorporated into digital folio

Learning Outcomes

Details of Learning Activities

Use Illustrator to constructs technical fashion drawings of garments for specification sheets.
Use Photoshop to develop mood boards for presentations
Problem solving.
Use on-line resources to research.

Teaching Schedule

1 Research week for YEP

2 Illustrator
Preference settings adjusted for keyboard increments to improve efficiency when using Illustrator.
Customise the workspace settings

Construction of technical drawings, identification of the basic element, stitch, darts and garment components. Creating templates Tracing Images.
Apply Colour

Saving an image for export to TIFF, JPG, PDF export. Save high resolution for export to specification sheets. Compare resolutions for sharpness and clarity.

Draw
Create collars with stands
Create sleeves
Create folded sleeve for back view
Pants and skirt blocks

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1, 4.4

3 Illustrator - Creating and Drawing

Using the Pathfinder tools divide, trim, merge and crop objects.
Arranging objects, changing the order, rotating objects.
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1

4 Using the Pen Tool, working with control point
Using text to create the effect of stitching.

Using Live Trace 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1

5 Fashion week

6 Illustrator – Typography
Working with Text. Fitting text to a path and typing text around a circle.

Swing Tags, and garment care labels
Illustrator - Using text to create the effect of stitching.
Swing Tags, and garment care labels.

 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1, 4.4


7 Illustrator - Working with Swatches and Brushes.
Brushes Three tiled brushes

Apply “lace effect to garments”

Foundation Garments Exercise

2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.3

8 Illustrator - Working with Swatches and Brushes.
Brushes Three tiled brushes
2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.3


9 Illustrator - Working with Swatches and Brushes.
Brushes Three tiled brushes

2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.3

10 PhotoShop - Working with bitmap images

Image fundamentals.

“Girl at Vatican”
Adjustments, Hue and Saturation, Brightness and Contrasts,

Selection tools to capture elements on a picture. Adding or Subtracting to a selection..

Exercise: Create pixelated image for knitting of sock.

Using online Help
Using Layers
Create, Save and load selections.
Modify the Image size and file size.

PhotoShop - Working with selections continued.

Selection with feather effect., create examples showing the effect of changing the feather calibration to produce feather edge.

Adobe Bridge to manage files.
Image fundamentals revisited. Working with selections
Batch Renaming
Applying Keywords
Sorting and Selecting
 
3.1, 3.2, 3.3

11 Transforming an image, change size, creating a poster size image. Identify the limitations.

Resize with the Crop Tool to decrease and increase image size.

Transforming the resolution of an image.
3.1, 3.2, 3.3.

12 Working with layers
Image Repair exercise using Clone, Healing and Patch Tools

Exercise -“Repair Lorne Photograph”, “Remove Wrinkles”
Exercise – Pattern exercise images sent to PowerPoint file.

3.1, 3.2, 3.3

13 Vanishing Point .
Image Warp - create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around
 any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using Image Warp

3.1, 3.2, 3.3

14 Create and Apply Patterns to images.
PhotoShop -Using Filters and Image Adjustments

Filter and Image Adjustment Exercise.

4..1, 4.2, 4.3

15 Preparing Images for the Web, presentations Optimising images.

Exercise: Use the Paths pallet. Export path to Illustrator for manipulation. Apply task to bitmap text and other images where pixilation prevents image being used in mood board. The path images should be, changed in size, have distortions applied to create perspective.

Colour management, Pantone Colours. Creating and applying patterns

Creating Mood Boards

Exercise: Montages.
Exercise: Apply pattern to image. Use Pattern3 and fashion Image 229

Creating and using simple Actions to enhance efficiency. Saving and Loading Actions

Actions Exercise to create a set of often used functions. Insert menu breaks.

5.1, 5.2, 5.3

16 Graphics Quiz Illustrator and Photoshop

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

Overview of Assessment

Graphics Quiz Illustrator and Photoshop

Assessment Tasks

Graphics Quiz Illustrator and Photoshop 100%

Assessment Matrix

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