Page 1 - Design Task
This will include the following:
- Your introduction and design brief
- Initial task analysis in spider diagram form or chart
- Extended Task analysis - breaking down the Initial task analysis
- A chart that investigates Areas of research
- There should be associated imagery to support
- Examples shown below -
Page 2 - Moodboard
This will include the following:
- An A4 Mood board
- This will have to be Portrait (not landscape like the examples shown)
- Examples of Moodboards shown below:
A moodboard is the overall theme / feel that you are hoping to portray in your project. It should describe your thought process in graphical form. The objective of a moodboard in Textiles Design is to help you create ideas for colour, texture, pattern, shape etc for your product range. It is not a product board and should not be a series of images that show garments or final products unless it used to convey your ideas.
Requirements
You moodboard should be no bigger than A4 in size.
It should be in full colour unless justified.
You also need a small 'evaluative' text box placed on your moodboard that:
- Briefly explains your moodboard
- Presents what information your Moodboard has given you about your theme / Design brief
(This should be no more than 100 words)
2. A trend board
This will be somewhat similar to your Mood board, but it is secondary research. You will be using trend research gained from an outside source. In this case it will be one or more of the following:
mudpie
Infomat trends
Vogue trends
Fashion Trendsetter
trend bible
Essentially , you may be just printing out a series of trends from one or more of these sites that reflect your Design task in some way. These will probably be A5 or A6 in size, depending on how many trends you find. The most important thing you need to do on this page is your small evaluation:
- Discuss where your information has come from briefly
- Explain the relevance to your Design task and mood board
- Express your opinion on your findings briefly
(This should be no more than 300 words)
Page 3 - Shop Report / Designer Research
Your 3rd page will iclude the following:
A Shop report - This will investigate what is currenlty in retail environments simular to your chosen target market. You will look at a range of Forward thinking, innovatove products that relect your trend as best as possible. Identify the following whereever possible:
- Picture / image / sketch of a product / garment
- Price
- Fabric
- Identify what you think is intresting (linking it back to brief / task analysis)
- Idenitfy through text and / or sketch how you may develop it on to meet your own design thinking
A designer report - Look to one or more designers that reflect your project. Again your designer should be directional and forward thinking. Present a series of photographs of garments / collections and explain:
- Designer signature style
- Relevance of collection to own work
- How you are influenced by designer
Page 4 - Primary Research
This is a page of Primary Research that you have chosen to investigate. It can be one of the following:
- Questionnaire / Survey
- Shop research
- Client survey / Research
- Visit to an Exhibition / Museum
- Visit to a nature reserve
- Visit to a Museum / exhibition shop
- Collect pictures of people - The Green
Your page should contain:
- A range of primary images
- An evaluation of your experience - where you went, why it links to your project, what your findings are, how you will use your information. This should be an extended piece of written work - at least 500 words.
- Produce a few small sketches that respond to this page - this could be design ideas for garments, products or even just pattern ideas for fabric.
