Digital Textile Design Online Short Course

The Digital Textile Design Online Short Course explores the creative possibilities of digital textile design techniques, tools, and processes, from the design brief through to the completed collection, and introduces students to the basics of colour, drawing, composition and repeats with step-by-step exercises and examples. Through a series of creative projects, the course provides 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. Course outcomes: • 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 folio including visualisations of designs • Work to a brief and develop a collection of printed textile designs for sustainable digital print output