Footwear Design Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Under the expert guidance of the tutor, this inspirational and concise footwear design course will take you through all the processes involved in designing a variety of footwear styles, including sneakers. You will start by looking at how shape and function affect footwear design and learn drawing techniques to enable you to develop your own design ideas.
This course will include different ways of applying colour and texture through traditional skills and selecting materials and trims for your designs, giving you the required foundation skills ideal for moving forward. Once confident in the basics of designing and researching, you will work on a project to help bring your research and design skills to production level and to gain an understanding of technical terminology.
Drawing and presentation will be covered in a series of technical workshops.
Please note: This is a design course and doesn't involve footwear construction.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone interested in the subject area and a desire to learn but no previous experience is required.
Key information
Topics covered
- Drawing techniques
- Footwear design and construction theory
- Decoding Trends and Fashion Predictions
- Story/Mood Boards Design development
- Range building
Learning outcomes
- Learn how to draw all types of footwear from high heels and flat, shoes such as sandals, boots, loafers and various other styles
- Create a mini collection of 5 styles, and essential presentation boards such as mood, colour and material
- Learn the foundation knowledge of footwear, such as terminology, last and heel shapes and soles
- Learn how to apply colour and texture and selecting materials and trims for your designs
- Learn the basics of taping the last up and drawing the 2D designs on to the 3D last allowing them to see how the designs translate from paper
- Take found inspiration and use it as design elements for their own work
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- A4 or A3 Layout pad bleed proof for markers (weight from 70gsm to 130gsm)
- A5 sketchbook (cartridge paper starter sketchbook or equivalent)
- Sketching pencils (HB, B, 2B such as Derwent Graphic)
- Staedtler 0.3mm black fine liner pen
- Coloured prints from the internet or magazines of a subject that interests you to use as a theme for your design inspiration
- Laptop / iPad / tablet
Students will be required to put a minimum of GBP 2 on a printing account and pay by debit or credit card - the tutor will advise you during your course. We recommend that you buy your materials from an art shop.
Tutor
Havva Mustafa
Havva Mustafa was born into a family of third generation footwear artisans and designers, and growing up with the curious shapes of patterns, lasts and heels evoked an interest and passion for footwear from a very early age. Havva followed in her fathers footsteps and studied at the prestigious Cordwainers Footwear College in London. Developing strong technical skills and graduated with a degree in footwear design and construction, she spent several years in the footwear industry gaining valuable experience in design, development and resourcing roles. She has now developed and launched her own brand HAVVA.Book a course
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