Textbook Requirement

There are four multiple choice quizzes embedded throughout the weekly Moodle content:

• Indigenous Perspectives
• Inks and Dyes
• Pattern-making
• Fibres and Fabrics

After studying the information associated within each weekly study guide, handbook or textbook chapter, you need to complete the quizzes, print off your result and display in your Task 1 Folio.

Demonstration knowledge associated with:

• Indigenous perspectives
• Application of inks and dyes
• Pattern-making in fashion contexts
• Fibres and fabrics

Purpose of Portfolio Task 1

To work with confidence in Fashion Design contexts you are required to know, understand and apply the fundamental principles, skills and knowledge that underpin the discipline. Portfolio Task 1 is an opportunity for you to create and collect a number of useful resources to use in various textiles, fashion and educational environments. Despite the ever changing nature of the Fashion industry, you will be able to refer back and use this Portfolio Task 1 for many years to come, as the fundamentals of fashion design remain relevant and useful.

What is required?

During this 12 week online course you will create and collate a number of activities into a hard-copy portfolio. This portfolio will demonstrate your understanding and application of the content knowledge and foundational principles needed in the Fashion Design process: investigate, ideate, produce and evaluate.

When completing each activity you should select and design materials and techniques that satisfy all factors. All illustrations and activities need to include annotations that justify the decisions made.

Your completed portfolio will need to demonstrate:

• Effective planning
• Time management skills;
• Organisation of resources when completing each activity;
• Effective and efficient management of all available resources; and
• Performing all techniques to a high standard of workmanship.

The portfolio must include the following topics:

• The Design Process
• Elements and Principles of Design
• Historical & Indigenous Perspectives
• Cradle to Cradle: environmental sustainability practices
• Application of Inks & Dyes
• Anatomy and Figure Drawing
• Introduction to Photoshop
• A4 copy/photo of a A3 Mood Board
• A4 copy/photo of a A3 Story Board
• Pattern-making Basics
• Fibres and Fabrics
• Evidence of successful completion of all Quizzes

The complete list of activities to include in your Portfolio Task 1 is provided and explained in the weekly Moodle content. A checklist will be used for marking purposes.

Extension Activities for advanced skilled and keen Fashion Designers (just for fun): You are welcome to expand on selected activities with your own more advanced exploration of knowledge and resources. Please note that you are not required to complete any activities from the textbook - only those activities as directed in Moodle are mandatory. However, to explore your own skills and creativity, if you wish, you may choose to complete activities that interest you from the textbook. Any extension activities that you choose to complete will not be marked for assessment purposes, but will enhance your Portfolio and skill set.

How to submit your Portfolio Task 1

An electronic version of your Portfolio Task 1 must be submitted via Moodle in Week 12 with all tasks complete. A hard copy of your Portfolio Task 1 must also be delivered to your tutor at Residential School for feedback.

Portfolio Task 1 submitted as follows:

1. If you have ICT skills, you may choose to construct an online e-portfolio which includes photographs of your original work with commentary for each activity. Web-based platform (of your choice, not visable to the public) must be easy to navigate and each activity clearly identified and presented. To submit an e-portfolio you need to upload a WORD document via Moodle with an active hyperlink to your e-portfolio and provide password (if required); OR
2. The alternative is to upload a Word or .pdf document with each activity clearly photographed and identified. Important - compress all photographs appropriately but ensure that each photograph is clear for the marker to see. Upload the whole Word document or .pdf in a .zip file to Moodle. Do not submit activities individually to Moodle - it must be one complete document; AND
3. A hard copy of your Portfolio Task 1 must be delivered to your tutor at Residential School.

More information is available on the Fashion Design Moodle unit site.

1. Select, create and justify application of a variety of materials and techniques used to explore the elements and principles of design.
2. Investigate local and global fashion design trends including environmental sustainability issues, marketing, historical trends, and indigenous perspectives that apply to the textiles and fashion industry.
3. Analyse, critically evaluate and communicate design ideas using a range of presentation techniques.
4. Perform a range of practical tasks that demonstrate high standards of workmanship.

Task Description

You will be working in a school textile/sewing room. There is a series of practical tasks to be undertaken every day.

You are to design and construct a garment inspired by your Mood Board ‘Sustainability and Indigenous Perspectives’. You are to exhibit the garment to the public in a fashion parade on Thursday evening 29th June, 6pm. Your friends and family are welcome to come!

Your process journal that will show how decisions have been made and validate practical work with annotated illustrations. This process journal will be used in your 3 minute oral presentation (marketing pitch) on Friday 30th June.

Orientation for your creative and critical thinking strategies

Ordinarily when we are confronted with a task - say a problem to be solved - we consciously become logical. We use our existing storehouse of words and phrases to set down our ideas and we use our storehouse of learned solutions to face a problem (your existing skills and life experiences). What do we do when our old solutions or ways of expressing ourselves are not sufficient to do the job?

This design brief is intended to help you explore creativity and critical thinking.

Design Brief

Your client

An up-market fashion house is opening soon, with one outlet in the CBD, and another in Yeppoon. It will stock fashion for 18-40 year old professionals who want up-market street clothes that are distinctly different, have a ‘wow’ factor but at the same time are functional. The proposed name of the fashion outlet is ‘Sustainable Street Wear’. The name derives the kind of garment stocked, introducing sustainability and indigenous design into everyday functionality and pizzazz. The garments difference, yet functionality, are intended to stand out in a crowd and for others to ask “Where can I get one of those?” The client's driving force for making decisions will be ideation, quality of construction, fabric design, and finish.

Your task

You have been invited to suggest a range theme for next season and to present a prototype garment (skirt or pants) suited to this outlet, its clientele, and your suggested theme.

Constraints

The completed garment will be presented for judging on the ‘Project Runway’ catwalk on Thursday evening.

• The name and intent of the fashion house ‘Sustainable Indigenous Street Wear’ and the taste of the clientele must be captured in the garment's design.
• Your theme should be creatively evident.
• The quality of construction, fabric design, and finish should be of commercial standard.
• The fabric used should meet the characteristics of being ‘sustainable’.
• Creativity is very important. Creativity is your capacity to link all aspects into an aesthetically and functionally pleasing design that is audience appropriate, yet distinctively different.

3 Minute Marketing Pitch & Display

On Friday 30 June, you will have 3 minutes to deliver your Marketing Pitch to an audience (your peers). In your marketing pitch, you will advocate for your sustainable design and ability as a designer. To accompany your marketing pitch, you are required to set up a display of:

1. Your garment with a label noting your theme.
2. A Story Board on A3 paper or board showing the final design (photohop) with a sample of fabric used.
3. Your process folio which demonstrates:

• Your creative and evolutionary journey
• Technology practice in action
• Captures the intent of a process folio - this happens on a daily basis: uses annotation, images, samples, doodles, thoughts, alterations, linear treatment of actions, a series of steps on how to construct your garment and/or compiled after the event.

Assessment Criteria as outlined in Unit Learning Outcomes for this Fashion Design Unit.

Standards marked against criteria as follows:

• Effective use of process journal to document creative processes used to respond to design brief.
• Demonstrates an array of practical skills when completing the design brief.
• Drawings and photographic documentation labeled and steps identified.
• Explores the design process, materials and techniques in relation to complex factors.
• Selects design, materials and techniques that satisfy complex factors.
• Effective use of time management skills.
• Justifies decisions with annotated illustrations and/or notes, and contemplation of complex factors.
• Performs a range of practical skills and selects appropriate techniques
• Produces a product that meets the design brief
• Effectively plans and organises resources for task completion, managing resources effectively, and efficiently.