COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Textile Design

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SEDEF ACAR

Offered to

Accessory Design
Textile Design
Textile
Textile and Fashion Design Department
Fashion Clothing Design

Course Objective

This course is for designing knitting fabrics, knitting clothing and decorative knits. Particularly, making designs by using color, yarn, raw material and technique criteria properly and making practices by teaching production calculations are aimed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source:
Collezioni Trends Magazine, Edited By Guilia Bulgarelli, Logos Publishing Srl., Italy, Süreli yayın
Encyclopedia Of Knitting, Dona Kooler s, Leusire Arts Publication, Arkansas, 2012
Subsidiary Sources:
Örmecilik Esasları, Fatma Çeken, D.E.Ü. Mühendislik Fakültesi Basım Ünitesi, Izmir, 2004
Örme Terimleri ve Tanımlamaları, Arzu Marmaralı, Serap Dönmez Kretzschmar, E.Ü. Tekstil ve Konfeksiyon Araştırma-Uygulama Merkezi Yayını, No:26, Izmir, 2004
Knitted Clothing Technology, Terry Brackenbury, Blackwell Science, USA, 1992

Other Course Materials:
Fashion magazines, decoration magazines, magazines on textile art, fair brochures, trend analysis reports, trend analysis web sites

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses
Instructor guide to students to design according to starting points related to fashion trends, target group and application fields by making research on fashion trends and modern and innovative material, to produce solutions for the problems emerging during the design and production process and ask them to state their opinions via both visual and written presentations (production reports, history book explaining the design process, presentation sheet, product etc.).

2. Revising Sessions and Class Discussions
Every week in the first and last hours of the lecture, instructor organizes revising sessions about being studied jacquard weaving fabric samples at different quality levels, being transferred the designs appropriate for current trends to the computer program, proper usage of the program icons on the basis of the given time. Students are promoted significantly to participate in class discussions and state opinions about the designs.

3. Applications
Students are informed about preparing a production report sample which is on what kind of strategy they need to use in the process of transition from design to production

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Student works are graded according to aesthetic value of the design, creativity, invention, innovative approach, starting point s reflection on the designs, design suitability with the product group, suitability of the technique, weaving, materials determined in the process of transition from design to production, product suitability with design and its applicability in mass production.

Attendance point of the student depends on (1) course attendance, (2) quality of the answer given to the instructor s questions during the lecture and in-class design study, (3) student s contribution in order to create a positive learning environment

Assessment Criteria

Approach in conception and terminology on textile design
Examination of related techniques
suffiency of Projects and skethes
sufficienty of woven practices
presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1.It is compulsory to maintain 80% of class attendance.
2. Any attempt for plagiarism result in disciplinary penalty.
3. Absence in the class is not a valid excuse for late submission of the projects and assignments.
4. In case of the late submissions, students lose point equal to one letter note for each day right after the dead-line.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes