Year 10 Fashion Design

LENGTH: One semester

KEY CONTACT: Aimee Sweet and Suriya Down

COURSE CONTENT:
This course offers an engaging exploration of fashion design within the broader context of visual art and graphic design, providing opportunities to investigate a range of creative careers within the fashion and design industries. While there is some garment construction involved, the primary focus is on creative processes, visual communication, branding, and understanding how the many professions within the industry work collaboratively.

Students will work with diverse textile mediums, including embroidery and fabric manipulation techniques, alongside visual art and graphic design processes such as illustration, digital design, typography, logo creation, packaging, and promotional materials. Projects will emphasise market research and concept development for surf, skate, and streetwear fashion brands, using an understanding of current fashion, design, and consumer trends to inform creative decisions.

Practical activities may include:

• Drawing and illustrating the fashion figure
• Fashion and textile design development
• Brand identity design, including logos and visual branding
• Digital graphic design and layout techniques
• Creating fashion marketing materials such as posters, lookbooks, social media content, and advertisements
• Exploring sustainable and recycled materials in fashion products
• Ceramic jewellery and accessory design
• Basic pattern drafting and garment prototyping
• Fabric decoration techniques including screen printing and stencil design

Students will investigate how graphic design, branding, and visual communication influence consumer engagement and shape fashion culture. They will critically analyse and reflect upon their own designs and those of others, considering cultural, contemporary, historical, and commercial contexts.

This holistic approach encourages students to develop creative thinking, design skills, technical proficiency, and visual literacy while exploring the many ways personal style, identity, and brand messaging can be expressed through fashion and design.

ASSESSMENT:
This course is assessed against the South Australian Curriculum concepts, capabilities and dispositions.

SUBJECT COSTS: Nil