Core topic 3: Fashion design Concepts and Knowledge, understanding and skills ideas Inquiry questions Subject matter How can a design process be design process used in this design challenge? skills required to undertake and manage What skills do I require to projects, including generating plans and complete this design schedules, resource management, reviewing challenge? milestones and adapting strategies, time Design process monitoring A design process is used to How can I explain the design communication skills, e.g. writing skills, generate design choices I have made? language conventions and features, visual solutions and presentation skills, writing annotations fashion items. (See Appendix: How could I improve my reflective skills The design design choices? analysis and comparative skills process) For my own and others work critique writing how can I provide constructive constructing feedback criticism design ideas and solutions? What considerations will considerations, e.g. intellectual property, influence the creation of my safety, standards and regulations designs? How do elements and elements of design to the components principles of design influence available for the designer to communicate solutions and products? visually, while principles of design describe how the elements could be used elements of design most commonly used are space, line, colour, shape, texture, tone, form the principles of design most commonly used Visual literacies are balance (symmetry, asymmetry, radial, pattern), contrast, proximity, harmony/unity, Visual literacies alignment, repetition/consistency, are the knowledge, hierarchy/proportion/scale understandings and skills used to What is the role of media in media and fashion, e.g. social construction of interpret, fashion? fashion, sales and advertising, establishing negotiate, and trends make meaning from information How can I communicate my drawing and visual presentation skills, e.g. presented in the design ideas to a client? freehand sketching, assembling design folios form of visual How can I use technical skills digital drawing and graphical skills, e.g. using and digital technologies to applicable software programs communicate a design idea? visual merchandising skills, e.g. product How can I best present placement, style, mood, lighting fashion products? What is merchandising? How does fashion branding branding, marketing and identity, fashion labels influence consumer choice?
Core topic 3: Fashion design Concepts and ideas Knowledge, understanding and skills Design process A design process is used to generate design solutions and fashion items. (See Appendix: The design process) Inquiry questions Subject matter How can a design process be used in this design challenge? What skills do I require to complete this design challenge? design process skills required to undertake and manage projects, including generating plans and schedules, resource management, reviewing milestones and adapting strategies, time monitoring How can I explain the design choices I have made? communication skills, e.g. writing skills, language conventions and features, visual presentation skills, writing annotations How could I improve my design choices? For my own and others work how can I provide constructive criticism design ideas and solutions? reflective skills analysis and comparative skills critique writing constructing feedback What considerations will influence the creation of my designs? considerations, e.g. intellectual property, safety, standards and regulations Visual literacies Visual literacies are the knowledge, understandings and skills used to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of visual How do elements and principles of design influence solutions and products? elements of design to the components available for the designer to communicate visually, while principles of design describe how the elements could be used elements of design most commonly used are space, line, colour, shape, texture, tone, form the principles of design most commonly used are balance (symmetry, asymmetry, radial, pattern), contrast, proximity, harmony/unity, alignment, repetition/consistency, hierarchy/proportion/scale What is the role of media in fashion? media and fashion, e.g. social construction of fashion, sales and advertising, establishing trends How can I communicate my design ideas to a client? How can I use technical skills and digital technologies to communicate a design idea? How can I best present fashion products? What is merchandising? drawing and visual presentation skills, e.g. freehand sketching, assembling design folios digital drawing and graphical skills, e.g. using applicable software programs visual merchandising skills, e.g. product placement, style, mood, lighting How does fashion branding influence consumer choice? branding, marketing and identity, fashion labels
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