Year 9 Textiles - Daring Design

TERTIARY & CAREER PATHWAYS:

fashion designer, clothing retailer, sewing machinist, costume designer, visual merchandiser, clothing patternmaker, fashion journalist, textile designer, milliner, retail buyer, quality control inspector, dry cleaner

It's time to apply your creativity and sewing skills to make unique garments designed by you! If you want to learn how to expand your skills repertoire to include fashion drawing, how to read and follow commercial patterns, and learn how to apply the elements and principles of design, this course is for you. Students will design and make a top and either skirt or shorts to showcase their new found skills.

Learning Standards:

INVESTIGATING & DESIGNING

• Prepare a design brief for variety of end users to satisfy these needs.
• Develop solutions to the design brief.
• Identify a range of criteria for evaluating their products.

PRODUCING

• Carry out a range of processes accurately, consistently safely and responsibility using a variety of complex tools and equipment.
• Explain decisions about the suitability of the materials and techniques used.
• Produce a production plan with logical sequences of production stages
• Make products and explain any modifications.

ANALYSING & VALUATING

• Evaluate the finished product using the previously established criteria.
• Critically analyse the product and make appropriate suggestions for improvements.
• Drawing conclusions of the impact of their design on others.

Assessment:

There will be a variety of tasks undertaken from the following: 

• Design Ideas Folio
• Techniques Folio
• Productions 1 & 2
• Analysis of Evaluation

Contributions to class discussions and completion of class work will also be considered.