Portfolio for fashion designers / Kathryn Hagen, Julie Hollinger.
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| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N. J. :
Pearson,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The big picture : Target your customer
- Consider different apparel categories
- Further define your muse
- Target a specific customer
- Target your dream company
- Soul searching
- Identify your visual influences and strengths
- Assess your designer profiles
- Identify common portfolio pitfalls
- Finalize your big picture plans
- Gather your resources : Purchase your portfolio case
- Gather your tools
- Determine your portfolio seasonal order
- Review and update past work
- Collect design inspiration and create inspiration boards
- Collect flat templates that relate to your design concepts
- Introduce yourself
- Improve your time management
- Develop your fabric boards and master sheets : Review textile strategies
- Review your concepts and inspiration images
- Collect swatches, trims and fastenings for all of your groups
- Plan and create fabric treatments for all of your groups
- Build your fabric boards
- Add swatches to your master sheets
- Sketch rough silhouettes for your first group
- Place your favorite silhouettes on your master sheets
- Repeat steps for your remaining groups
- Check the balance of pieces among your groups
- Create your mini-mockup portfolio : Choose your portfolio format
- Assemble your group elements
- Copy your templates and reduce your elements
- Create an outline of your visual plan
- Add mood images and fabric boards to your template
- Create thumbnail compositions
- Create thumbnail flats
- Add figure layouts and flats to your template
- Seek good critiques
- Make necessary changes
- Develop your designs : Review elements and principles of good design
- Review principles of architectural design
- Review principles of product design
- Review principles of visual artists
- Review croquis format
- Consider sustainability
- Create detailed flats for each group
- Draw your designs on the croquis figure
- Make adjustments to your flats as needed
- Check the balance in your final designs
- Develop your pose : Review figure structure and anatomy
- Develop a proportion sheet for your muse
- Review your thumbnail layouts and croquis
- Determine the mood of your group's poses
- Develop your fashion heads
- Develop your structured pose
- Add fashion heads to figures
- Refine head and foot details
- Adjust proportions for younger figures
- Finalize proportions and details
- Draw and render your designs : Review basic principles of drawing clothes on the figure
- Draw your outfits loosely on your figures
- Put loose color and pattern on your figures and check the balance
- Make adjustments to your drawings, adding or editing elements as needed, and changing poses if necessary
- Draw over each outfit, refining the line, silhouette and details
- Scan your final drawings and print them out separately or as a group, ready to render
- REview principles of good rendering
- Render your entire group
- Complete your flats in correct proportion to the garments
- Put your work up and live with it for a few days
- Garment and technical flats : Collect figure templates in proportion to your groups
- Collect garment templates in the silhouettes of your groups
- PRactice your hand-drawn flats
- Add dimension to your hand-drawn flats
- Practice basic illustrator flats
- Create a collection in illustrator flats
- Compare figure and flat proportions
- Consider different layouts for flats
- Create tech packs for your portfolio
- Look at professional line sheets and lookbooks
- Digital portfolios : Explore the advantages of creating a digital portfolio
- Study a sample digital portfolio
- Look at options for creating your own website
- Explore techniques fro creating beautiful mood boards for your digital portfolios
- Explore Photoshop strategies, filter techniques, and special effects to enhance your illustrations
- Explore techniques to enhance your fabric boards in Photoshop
- Explore techniques to create a digital leave-behind CD or DVD and other supporting materials
- Consider ways to create beautiful invitations and announcements for your fashion events
- Explore various ideas for creating your own logo and other branding elements
- Create finished presentations using hand and computer tools
- Additional categories : Costume portfolio: preparing to be a costume designer
- Fashion and visual merchandising
- Product and accessory design
- Swimwear and activewear
- Getting and keeping the job : Creating your brand
- Ways to create a personal brand
- Your resume and online uses
- Additional tools to make an impression
- Cover letters
- Winning the interview
- The experienced designer
- Press packets
- Questions interviewers might ask if your are changing jobs
- Keeping your job
- Portfolio by Julie Hollinger.