COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Textile Design

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SEDEF ACAR

Offered to

Course Objective

This course aimes to make nonwoven (except knitting and weaving) interior and apparel textiles or tufting carpets and floor coverings with techniques such as felt, tufting, felt, punching, pressing, laminating etc. And aimes to present textile collections for target consumer with potential of materials and techniques in accordance with current trends.

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

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Dokusuz Yüzeyler, Kerim Duran, Tekstil Teknolojisi, E.Ü. yayınları, Izmir, 2006
Tekstil Malzeme Bilgisi, Banu Hatice Gürcüm, Grafiker Yayınları, Ankara, 2005
Understanding Textiles, Phyllis G. Tortora, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1992
Textiles, Sara J. Kadolph,; Anna L. Langford, Prentice Hall Pbl.,Ninth Edition, New Jersey, 2002
Additional Sources:

The New Textiles, Chloe Clochester, Thames And Hudson, London, 1996

Complementary Materials:

Periodical magazines on fashion and textile design, fair insert, trend analyses reports, wb site of trend analyses

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, 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
2. Revising Sessions and Class Discussions
Every week in the first and last hours of the lecture, instructor organizes revising sessions about sketch creation at design stage on the basis of given time related to determination of main design. Intracurricular studies and assignments are curricial for the problems solved in this environment. Students are promoted significantly to participate in class discussions and state opinions about the designs.
3.Applications
During the process in which transition from design to production is involved, while students determine design facilities and technology required by implemented technique, they make a design by utilizing the knowledge gained in the various technical courses and they assist their applications with this knowledge. On this subject, model applications are shown to the students.

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)

sedef.acar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tel. 0232 3016754
sedef.acar@deu.edu.tr

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes