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Victionary (2008) Simply Pattern Viction Design
Victionary (2008) Fashion Unfolding fashion graphics Viction Design
Victionary (2008) Fashion Wonderland Viction design
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Chidy, W. (2009) Essential Fashion Illustration Men Rockport

You will need access to these resources:

The VLE (NETED)
The Internet
Hardware laboratory
Appropriate Software
Word Processing software for use in the coursework
Printed and electronic journals.
Computer system and other devices' manuals

Prior to the completion of work personal presentation of work to the group will allow for peer and self evaluation to take place. This will be an important part of the student identifying and understanding successful working methods and/or areas for future development.

Following this, and prior to assessment, students will have the opportunity to revisit aspects of their work which would benefit from further development before summative assessment.

Throughout the module students will receive various forms of feedback (tutor, self and peer).

Summative assessment takes place at the conclusion of the module where all work is assessed in line with the module learning outcomes and module assessment criteria. Written feedback will be given to students to identify areas of success and/or development to be considered during future projects.

Summative assessment:
- Design report 20%
A report outlining the area of fashion and textiles considered.
- Portfolio presentation 80%
A professional and cohesive presentation of individual students response to the module requirements showing innovative ideas Fashion Retail, Portfolio and Design

To pass this module student must obtain 40% marks. Re-assessment is capped at 40%

Topics will be drawn from

This module is designed to provide the content and production strategy for Final Collection A: Preparation and Final Collection B: Production. It will enable the student to produce a major body of work which will provide substantial evidence of your design abilities. The module draws upon previous learning and experience to enable the generation of research and design development which is both innovative and capable of development through to production. Work should reflect and relate to contemporary and historical fashion practice. External briefs of both national and international origin will form part of this module and will provide the opportunity for design work to be reviewed by consultants from the fashion and clothing industry.

The student will:
- Undertake research - market, colour, fabric, trends, technical, production.
- Generate design concepts on which to build design ideas for self initiated and set briefs.
- Use CAD where appropriate.
- Develop design ideas which reflect an awareness of the contemporary fashion market and predicted trends.
- Present ideas to a professional standard for specified target markets.
Each student will negotiate an appropriate treatment of the approved topic with their assigned supervisor and will show work in progress periodically as arranged with the supervisor.

A complete draft of the dissertation or Design Report will be submitted to the supervising tutor for final advice.

The learning strategy for the module requires students to commit 300 learning hours, of this there will be 75 hours of class support and 225 hours of independent and self directed study.

Lectures/ lab work/ Presentations /Tutorial
Student managed learning/ directed learning

Apart from the lecture each week, various other methods as mentioned above will be used as learning strategies.
There will be laboratory and tutorial sessions, students will be required to discuss and present various topics of the module in the class. Students will be required to apply theoretical knowledge in practical contexts.
Students are expected to be able to structure their own work and to work relatively independently under the guidance of the module teaching staff.