HE, three years, full-time, day-time
Higher Education
BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Design
Course Validated by the Open University.
Course Contact
Julie Bland / Paul Sunter
Telephone
0113 202 8000
UCAS code
W222
About
We will encourage you to see yourself as a professional designer and to develop an enquiring and versatile attitude to designing. You will be
helped to explore, develop and express innovative concepts, and to find your own approaches to the wide range of specialisations within the course.
The majority of our graduates are employed in design teams or studios in a wide range of industries; others establish their own practices as designer/makers. Whatever you choose, the world of design is rich, exciting and fluid. It is forward-thinking, yet rooted in history interior design - and will always embrace innovation, new ideas and vision.
First year modules include:
• Design for Print
• Design for Digital Output
• Design for Paper
• Design for Context
• Context of Practice 1
• Personal and Professional Practice 1.
Second year modules include:
• Design and Innovation
• Responsive
• Design Direction
• Context of Practice 2
• Personal and Professional Practice 2.
Third year modules include:
• Context of Practice 3
• Extended Practice 3
• Personal and Professional Practice 3.
Links with industry
Each year we collaborate with Tigerprint and Pattern Fashion Fabric Studio, as well as other manufacturers and design studios whenever appropriate opportunities arise. In the final year we encourage you to work with companies, and this has led to exciting successes for our students in Europe and the USA.
Work placements
This is a key aspect of the course from the second year onwards, and you will be encouraged to do periods of work placement to suit your individual requirements. Students have recently been as far afield as Calcutta, the USA, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Milan, although the majority go to London or other UK locations. In 2011, our students worked in the design studios of Liberty, Alexander McQueen, Topshop, Miss Selfridge, River Island, Duchamp, Amanda Wakeley, Rob Ryan, Paul Smith, Alison Willoughby, Karen Nicol, Habitat, Oasis, Timorous Beasties, DKNY, Diane von Furstenberg and numerous others.
Study visits
Every year, first-year students have a week-long study trip to Amsterdam while second-year students have a choice of two visits to Paris. A further visit to New York is scheduled every three years, open to students across all of the years.
Exhibition opportunities
In February and September each year, the course shows and sells student designs at Indigo fashion fabric trade fair in Paris. Those students specialising in interiors may show their work on our stand at MoODtrade fair in Brussels. We also show student work at the Leeds International Book Fair and the Glasgow International Artists’ Book Fair. The New Designers Exhibition in London is an opportunity for our graduating students to present themselves and their work to a professional audience and to meet potential employers.
Resources
We have professionally equipped textile-print workshops staffed by specialist technicians. These workshops offer equipment for dyeing, screen-printing, heat-transfer printing, digital printing and laser-cutting. The well-equipped CAD suites have both PCs and Macs. All students have access to the internet and use software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (no prior knowledge of these is necessary).
European links
As well as visiting and exhibiting at major European trade fairs and placing our students in design studios in European cities, the course participates in the College’s Erasmus student exchange scheme (see page 75 for more information).
Progression & career opportunities
We design for a global industry and our graduates are employed in design studios throughout the world in fashion and Interior textiles; card and gift wrap; wall coverings; media and publications; fashion marketing; styling; buying; fashion accessories; costume design; and interior design. Each year, several students continue their studies at master’s or PGCE level.
Awards
Our students have won prestigious national and international awards:
New Designer of the Year, 2011
New Designers Tigerprint Award 2011 (winner)
Wallpaper History Society, Timorous Beasties Award 2011 (winner) Texprint 2011
Friulprint, Italy (winner)
Surtex, New York 2011 (grand winner) Prestigious Textiles Award (winner)
The Worshipful Company of Dyers Award
2011 (winner)
The Bowery Gallery 1m x 1m 2011 (winner)
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award 2011 for Fashion Fabric (second & third prizes)
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award 2011 for Interior Fabric (second prize)
Association of Fashion and Textile Courses Award 2011 (second & third prizes)
2011 GoodWeave Rug Design Competition (second prize)
Bradford Textile Society Presidential Award 2010 (winner)
Textile Finishers’ Association Award 2010 (third prize)
Prestigious Textiles Award 2010 (third prize)
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award for Ecological Issues 2010 (winner)
Association of Fashion and Textile Courses
Award 2010 (second and third prizes)
British Textile Designers’ Guild Plaque 2010 (third prize)
Premiere Vision Travel Bursary 2010
Prestigious Textiles Award 2009 (first prize)
Association of Fashion Textile Course Award 2009 (first, second & third prizes)
Textile Finishers’ Association Award 2009 (second prize)
The British Textile Designers’ Guild Plaque 2009 (winner)
Unitex European Fashion Print Competition 2009 (fourth and fifth prizes)
Society of Designers and Colourists Competition 2009 (second prize)
The Selvedge Award for Excellence inTextiles 2009
Texprint 2009
New Designer of the Year 2008
2008 Bradford Textiles Society Crossing the Boundaries’ for Interiors (second and third prizes)
Textiles Finishers’ Association Award 2008 (first prize)
Premier Vision Travel Bursary 2008.
Mature students (21+)
We welcome applications from students who are returning to education. We offer many opportunities for adults even if you don’t have conventional entry qualifications. We’re interested in your motivation, your potential, and your ability to follow the course successfully.
Course fees & costs
See course fees page and find out if you qualify for any support. Additionally, average additional materials costs are about £300 in year one but may be more in subsequent years. Many students gain materials sponsorship for their third-year work. Though not compulsory, course trips incur costs of between £100-£200 in years one and two.
Find out more
- Contact our Student Advice Team.
- Visit the College at one of our open events.
- Contact our Marketing department on 0113 202 8000.
How to apply
UCAS code W222
The closing date for applications is Saturday 15 January 2012. Visit our how to apply section.
The College is currently unable to accept direct entry onto Year 2 of this course
Course guidance
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