OLCreate: PUB_3019_1.0 Design, Create and Embellish Your Own T-Shirt Fashion Design Project

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    Getting Started
    
    Here you are on this course to learn how to design, create and embellish your own personal T-Shirt
    
    You will Design a small collection of about 5 - 10 T-Shirt designs and then choose one of your designed T-Shirt ideas and create it onto your T-Shirt.
    
    If you would like to challenge yourself further you can develop your ideas of your chosen T-Shirt design by looking at shape, composition, texture, different colour ideas, different trimmings and the list goes on. It would be lovely to see 5-10 design development pictures of your chosen T-Shirt different design ideas, if you decide to do this) You will then create your final design ideas onto your T-Shirt.
    
    All designs are to be designed in inspiration of one of the chosen themes: Nature, The Beach, Sport.
    
    Choose your chosen theme and use your imagination to think and create things you like, to add to your chosen theme.
    
    Remember you are the fashion designer, so go and create. Let your imagination go wild and see it come to life on your finished chosen T-Shirt creation.
    
    The aim of this project is to help you understand the design process, whilst developing your research development and realisation of fashion ideas by drawing, designing and creating and embellishing/decorating your own T-Shirt/s.
    
    This fashion design course has been designed to cover some of the key elements of Introduction to Fashion Design. It provides an introduction to the principles of fashion design and concentrates on the development of ideas from well explored research to the design and creation of a finished T-Shirt.
    
    All you need to do is follow topic by topic to explore about Design, create and embellish (decorate) your own T-Shirt/s project. Here is the contents for this course
    
    1. Getting Started
    
    2. List of Materials you will need for this course
    
    3. Course Learning Outcomes
    
    4. What is fashion design
    
    5. A short history of the T-Shirt
    
    6. Fashion Design Brief : Design, Create and Embellish your own T-Shirt Fashion Design Project
    
    7. Aims
    
    8. Learning Objectives
    
    9. Inspiration Design Themes Mood Board Ideas
    
    10. T-Shirt template design ideas
    
    11. T-shirt Design Templates
    
    12. T-Shirt fashion design, textiles and embellishing technique ideas
  - List of Materials you will need for this course Page
    List of Materials you will need for this course
    
    This is a list of materials you will need to do the course but you can use what ever you like to design, create and make your own T-Shirts project
    
    Plain T-Shirt
    Sketch Book
    Pencil, pens, paints or any art materials of your choice
    Paper
    Magazines, Pictures, images, own poems, paintings, art work
    Scissors for paper and suitable for fabric
    scrap fabrics, materials, jewellery pieces, sequins, buttons, trimmings, anything of your choice
    needles and threads,
    embroidery threads
    fabric paints,
    printing stamps, print templates, stencils
    glue gun if needed
    fabric glue
    newspaper to protect work surfaces, T-Shirt etc
    transfer iron on print paper
    iron (muslim or calico fabric to T-Shirt when ironing to protect it.
Course learning outcomes
Design create and embellish your own T-Shirt/s project

The aim of this Fashion design course is to help you understand the design process, whilst developing your research development and realisation of fashion ideas by drawing, designing & creating & embellishing/decorating your own T-Shirt/s. It has been designed to cover some of the key elements of Introduction to Fashion Design. It provides an introduction to the principles of fashion design & concentrates on the development of ideas from research to the design & creation of a finished T-Shirt

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What is fashion design
What is Fashion design

Fashion design is a form of art dedicated to the creation of clothing such as T-shirts, tops, trousers, skirts, dresses and other lifestyle accessories such as bags, hats, scarfs and many, many more items that are seen in shops today
A short history of the T-Shirt
Fashion Design Brief - Design, Create and Embellish Your Own T-Shirt Fashion Design Project
Design, Create and Embellish Your Own T-Shirt Fashion Design Project
Design, create and embellish (decorate) your own T-Shirt, inspired from your chosen theme:
Please choose one of the following design themes. If you want to challenge yourself then you can choose more than one design theme. Happy Designing :-)

Nature

The Beach

Sport

Choose your chosen theme and use your imagination to think and create things you like.

Think about ideas, Like happy memories and things you like, when you think of your chosen theme and inspirations that you would like to use for design ideas.

Nature (things you like in nature)

The Beach (things you like from the beach)

Sport (things you like in your chosen favourite sport or hobby)

Why not make a collage, mood board, collect photos, paint, draw, look through magazines, the internet, write a poem, make a spiders web of ideas. There are lots of ways to collect ideas together. So get brain storming and putting together your exciting sketch book and design collection.

Remember you are the fashion designer, so go and create. Let your imagination go wild and see it come to life on your finished chosen T-shirt creation

Recycle and recreate your own unique design creation on your chosen T-Shirt and decorate it to your own fashion style.

Do you have any old clothes, fabrics, trimmings, broken or old jewellery, shells, etcetera, you can cut up, to sew and/or glue onto your T-Shirt. You can even pleat, scrunch, cut out shapes, rip parts of your T-Shirt and even add in place other pieces of fabrics to change your T-Shirt to create a new shape, different looking sleeves. The list is endless.

If you like you can do your own drawings, paintings, collages and choose one complete image to iron onto your T-Shirt.
The Design Process for the T-shirt design project

Theme related research : A3 or A4 Mood board (collection of ideas inspirations/ research/ buzz words : library-books, magazines, internet, films, music, holidays, photos) Gathering ideas for design print/s for T-Shirt designs, moodboard and fashion illustrations

theme related prints ideas for your T-Shirt designs creating pictures or collages. (must be own designs, not copied)

max3 fashion illustrations of the t-shirt print ideas
(prints must be originals)

Making (surface decoration ideas, print making)

Inspired by your A3 Mood board with title / buzz words: please create 2 outstanding prints designs using the template t-shirt

2 outstanding coloured stylized fashion illustrations (t-shirt)

Working and using your selected theme, you will need to come up with a graphic for your t-shirt.
Aims

Aims

The aim of this project is to help you understand the design process, whilst developing your research development and realisation of fashion ideas by drawing, designing and creating and embellishing/decorating your own T-Shirt/s.
Learning Obejectives
Learning Objectives

By the end of the Fashion Design and making course all students should be able to:
- Develop skills in design research, catching the essence and flavour of your chosen design theme from the themes listed.
- To be able to create one or more designs from your own brain storming and individual inspirational ideas.
- To be able to develop and present fashion ideas in response to the brief.
To be able to create a finished original Fashion T - Shirt created from your fashion design T-Shirt collection
inspiration Design Themes Mood Board Ideas
1. Nature

Garden, Woods, Parks, Birds, insects, animals, Sky, Trees, Flowers, Fruit, Vegetables, Squirrels, Lakes, Rivers.

2. The Beach
The Sea, Sand, Fish, Seagulls, Star Fish, Candy Floss, Fish and Chips, People, Swimming, Sand Castles.

3. Sport

Football, Cricket, Cycling, Swimming, Running, Boxing, Skate Boarding, bike, Football, Ball, Surf Board, Gloves, Skate Board, People.
T - Shirt template design ideas
T - Shirt template design ideas from moodboard inspiration