Intro to Surface Design

Get your creative energy flowing with this exciting design intensive! Surface design has many applications including textiles, interior design, home décor, craft-based and editorial projects. Through a variety of exercises, you will explore creative ideation strategies, composition and colour theory, and pattern development. Learn to hand draw and prototype repeating patterns that can be applied to any number of surfaces or projects. By the end of the course, you will have developed a set of skills that will be useful in many industries and creative pursuits, including interior design, printmaking, textile design, fashion design and illustration.

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Upcoming Sessions

To be scheduled

Learning Outcomes

Through successful completion of this studio, you will be able to:

Identify and describe the ideation to creation design process
Describe fundamental principles or design and colour theory
Use diverse techniques to manipulate 2D materials into 3D objects
Create repeat and tiled patterns that may be used in various art, design and craft applications
Identify critical successes and areas of improvement in personal and peer’s projects/work

Questions?

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