FUNCTIONAL
CLOTHING AND MATERIALS
Assignments
Assignment 1 – Brand presentation
ready at 4.1
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Choose one brand, sportswear, works wear, children’s wear,
wearable, health wear and present the brand to others
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Tell brand concept / ideology
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Tell brand history /background
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Tell what are the main products
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What kind of materials they are using
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Who is the customer / user
Make pdf presentations. 10-15 Min each.
Assignment 2 – Material research
ready at 5.1
Research interesting technical fabrics / technical innovations
and present others how they work.
Make pdf presentations. 10-15 Min each.
Assignment 3 – User
ready at 17.1
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Interview and observe user in specific situations, like sports, work,
hobby, transportation or specific group like kids, students /elderly etc.
Ask questions like:
What kind of clothes you use and why?
What specific need you have for clothes?
How do you take care of clothes?
What kinds of moments you have to do?
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User presentations at 17.1, you can choose the presentation method
Assignment 4 – material development
ready at 13.1
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Make 5 different material samples and development
during Material workshop with different techniques
Course Assignment
Course Assignment
Design functional collection
you can choose your area:
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Sportswear – what sports
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Work wear
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Wearable
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Health industry
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Social design – products that improves peoples life
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Solar cell printing project
Course Assignment
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Make visual, technical, user research from your topic
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For visual look you can choose extra topics
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Design concept and 1 product or outfit
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Produce the outfit in right materials (or very close)
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Make instructions for production for design
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Make concept and design presentation in printed version; visual
inspirations, colour cards, labels, accessories, materials,
illustrations, flat drawings
Course Assignment
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You can work in 2 persons team too
It can be more focus also on fabrics if you have
textile background
LEARNING BY DOING
EXPERIMENTING
LEARN a LOT
BE OPEN
WORK HARD
HAVE FUN