Designing for Surface Decoration Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Refine your hand drawing and painting skills and explore how surface decoration and pattern design can be used in a range of products such as textiles, ceramics and wrapping paper.
This beginner's course will take you from idea generation and initial research through to finished artwork for a variety of different artefacts.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone who has some background in design and is interested in developing their skills in 2D and 3D form.
Equally it could be a great place for current practitioners to refresh existing skills or make the transition from managing designers to designing yourself.
Ultimately, the course will support anyone who is full of creativity that they wish to explore with like-minded people.
This course can be a follow-on from the Drawing and Painting for Textile Design Short Course, or it can be taken independently.
Key information
Topics covered
On this course you will be given a project brief to design a textile collection for a specific purpose. To fulfil the brief in the time given it is essential that you conduct some preliminary visual research beforehand.
To start it is important to decide a theme which may be simple; for example, flowers, fruit, or something abstract like time, space, movement, or an ethnic theme, for example Indian or African art, etc. Primarily the subject needs to be something that you find interesting.
When you have decided your theme, gather drawings and images from magazines or postcards, colours, small pieces of fabric, packaging etc - anything that you feel will inspire you and keep your interest during the course. These materials will be used to make a storyboard which will form the basis of your design collection.
There will be short projects set by the tutor for you to work on. Alternatively, you can work on a longer project or on a particular idea of that you wish to develop.
You will be encouraged to develop your own ideas as creatively as possible using a range of specific drawing and painting techniques as used by designers in the marketplace.
Although computers will not be used in the studio the projects you complete can be further developed on computers in your own time.
Learning outcomes
- Upon completion of the course, you should take away with your new practical hand drawing and painting abilities
- A portfolio of new ideas and drawings you have created
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
Please bring with you to the first session:
- A4 sketchbook
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Apron
- Palette
- Water jar
- Windsor & Newton Gouache Starter Pack or Acrylics
- Selection of painting brushes
- Selection of coloured pencils
- Selection of coloured felt tips
- HB pencil
Tutor
Dominique L'Olive
Dominique graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA hons degree in Fashion and initially worked for Timney Fowler where she created textile print designs for the UK and Japanese fashion markets. She established her own company in 1999, developing and designing primarily for the US apparel market but also collaborating on special design projects with Nigel Coates [architect], the Jigsaw merchandising team and Marks & Spencers. From 2002-2007 Dominique was an associate lecturer at LCF on an elective programme teaching students from a diverse range of design disciplines Textile Print. She currently teaches for UAL Short Courses online textile design courses.
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