Module: TDF5005-20 Styling and Display with Professional and Business Practice

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Rachael Howard

Module Tutor Contact Details: r.howard2@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This is your final studio practice module in Year 2 (level 5). This styling and display module aims to enable you to explore your identity as a textile designer for fashion, interiors and /or related products. The module gives you the opportunity to develop skills in planning, organisation, teamwork and leadership and may involve coordinating an event.

In your previous studio modules, you have developed and defined your textile specialism, and have started to inform your textile design process through engagement and experimentation.

Building on the foundation of your design thinking and technical and contextual skills acquired, you will create and manage your own project brief within the framework of styling and display options directed by your tutors.

The emphasis will be on the aesthetic presentation and display for the project conclusion. As part of the presentation you will required to produce a ‘look-book’ that showcases your practical outcomes. The design and production of this book will also enable you to further develop your CAD skills. Running in conjunction with, and embedded into, this module is professional business practice through lectures, seminars and discussion.

The module provides a focus for individual professional practice and examines the operations of a practitioner within contemporary textile design, including goal setting, managing workloads and meeting deadlines. The module offers students the opportunity to explore the supporting activities needed to practice as a designer and will prepare you in readiness, if appropriate, for your year out in industry.

2.Outline syllabus

This module focuses your attention on defining your style and promoting your ideas and concepts to an extended audience.

The published outcome will be conceived, styled and produced by you and will be an adaptable product designed to expand and grow as the recording of your portfolio develops.

Integrated into the module will be a series of professional development engagements and physical portfolio preparation sessions.

3.Teaching and learning activities:

• Tutorials

• Workshops

• Lectures

• Independent working and engagement

• 1-1 Portfolio Review and Preparation

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Physical Published Outcome Sketchbooks

• % Weighting: 90%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Portfolio Presentation

• % Weighting: 10%