Art, Design and Architecture

Discover Programme 

The Discover Programme is a range of inspiring talks or lectures delivered by staff from across the School. This year, they are designed to introduce the range of options available for study within the arts and creative industries, and to help students prepare for studying these subjects at undergraduate level. 

• Course talks for all of our available undergraduate courses
• Building a creative portfolio
• Preparing for an online portfolio review/interview
• Careers in the creative industries 

What to expect: 

• A talk for your school class or college group
• Takes in school/college (where Covid-19 guidelines allow), or online
• Aimed at Year 12/Year 1 college students, but can be adapted for other year groups (Year 13/Year 2, Access to HE, or younger year groups Year 10 upwards)

To find out more or to book your talk, please email sah.recruitment@hud.ac.uk

Fashion Creative Direction

We are calling all students who have a passion for fashion and enjoy been creative, especially when it comes to styling various fabrics, colours and prints together.

Students are required to style their chosen tutor, or it could even be the headmaster (if you dare)

We want students to create a consumer profile of their client and then create three styling boards for different events.

Tutors please start the session by letting the students gain some information from their chosen profile. This could be done as a question time activity allowing students to ask questions based on the below.

Students, you will need to gain an understanding of your client. Ask questions related to lifestyle, hobbies, age, tastes. Even what finding out what brands, styles and colours your client likes to wear now.

Once you have collected this information, it’s time to get creative, go online or if you can visit shops and take photos to help create 3 styling options,

1 - Work wear

2 - Weekend adventures

3 - Evening dining

Make sure you include prices and where the items are from. 

You could any computer package to put these together, or print and stick.

If you don't have access to computers feel free to draw these styling options and label with which brands they would be. 

Tutors, your students can work individually or in teams depending on your preference.

Once all teams have completed the task, it’s time to start to sell your creations to the profile you have chosen.

Students will require:

• Computer/internet
• Drawing template (supplied by us!)
• Pencils

Duration

• 15 minute Q&A
• 30 minute research/creative styling
• 15 minute critique and discussion

Delivery

This workshop can be offered to your school or college online or face-to-face.

We can start the workshop with a live introduction to our course leader from Fashion Creative Direction or we can email you personally with a list of materials and guidelines.

What is the outcome of the workshop?

The student will have a styling document and profile which can be discussed in portfolios or interviews when applying to the Fashion Creative Direction course.

International Fashion Buying Management

When planning new ranges, buyers perform a comparative shop. This means they go around similar stores to see what similar items other retailers are offering.

Students must complete a comparative shop for new high-street brand Bingo (made up brand). They are wanting to launch a new organic white t-shirt that is sustainably made and long lasting.

They need to check out who else is doing what in the market, the quality, composition of fabric and for how much.

This can easily be done by researching online.

We will provide you with a comparative shop table where you can compare other brands white t-shirt ranges and then work out your own prices, where it would be made and from what material.

Additional brownie points go to those who can identify various factories and where things are produced around the world to see who is the most ethical and sustainable.

Duration

No time allocated, but we normally work on the below timeline:

• 10 minute introduction to the brand, its aims, objectives and ethos
• TBC - students need to take time to research competitors and pull together a comparative shop table
• 10 minute presentation

Delivery

This can be presented to your students live online or we can send out the guidance and materials directly to your school.

What will be the outcome of the workshop?

When looking at your comparative shop table, you have started to understand what a customer is looking for when researching and introducing new brands.

The information you have created during the workshop can be presented and discussed when you come for an interview. We will look to see what your understanding and findings were when taking part in the workshop.

Hand-stitched textile accessories

Create textile-based badges or patches with a political or decorative approach. 

This workshop can be about being quick or it could turn into a mini labour of love, it can make use of a collection of new materials and yarns or might focus on a re-use/upcycle approach.  

Students will require:

• Paper
• Pens
• Safety pins (if making badges)
• Felt (or any fabric that is a little stiffer)
• Scissors
• Needle and thread

Everything else is a bonus/optional:

• Sequins
• Yarns
• Fabric scraps
• Beads
• Anything that could be used as a bead (has a hole in it!)

Duration

This workshop usually works with the following time scale:

• 15 minute introduction
• 10 - 15 minutes designing/planning
• 40 - 60 minutes of making (can be extended to as long as you like)

Delivery

This workshop will be delivered through a video and you will be supplied with a teaching and student guide as a PDF.

There is also an option for a live (online or in-person), pre or post workshop Q&A with a tutor from the BA/BSc Textiles course.

There is also the option of undertaking the (recorded) online session ‘Presenting Textiles’, this includes short conversations with students and alumni of the Textiles course about the range of textile applications they use (relating to the 3 online workshops) and a demonstration on how to pull some design boards together with the work they have done in this (or any of the textile) workshop(s) ready for university (or college) interviews.

Presenting Textiles

This workshop is an ‘add-on’ option for the 3 practical workshops: Hand-stitched Textile Accessories, Resist Transfer Printing and Mark-making and Designing. You do not need to have done all three workshops but it helps if you have done one.

This workshop includes conversations with current students and alumni of the Textile course about the way in which they use and apply textiles (in relation to the workshops).

The second part of this workshop shows some simple but effective ways in which you can present the work you have done in the workshop into the format of a board, suitable for inclusion in your portfolio ready for University and College applications.

You can just watch the video but if you then wish to follow up with a practical session:

• Lightweight card (A2/A3)
• Glue sticks
• Needle and thread
• Items to put on the board (including all the ‘scraps & bits’ left over from the original workshop)

Duration

This presentation/workshop should take approximately 45 minutes

Delivery

This workshop will be delivered through a video and you will be supplied with a teaching and student guide as a PDF.

There is also an option for a live (online or in-person), pre or post workshop Q&A with a tutor from the BA/BSc Textiles course.

Patchwork Textiles

Learn how to do patchwork using the English Paper Piecing [EPP] method. Create your own simple block so that you can build up a collection of pieces to make a larger abstract or repeating piece of patchwork cloth. this process is very adaptable and is applicable to a range of course directions: textiles, costume, fashion, graphics, contemporary art.

Students will require:

• A few (2 or 3) pieces of fabric (cotton is best, can be upcycled from an old shirt, lightweight denim etc.) Approx. 10 x 10 cm each
• A4 piece of light weight card or heavier paper
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Sewing thread
• Needle

Digital Printmaking in Photoshop

This workshop introduces students to a digital method of simulating the printmaking process in Adobe Photoshop - without getting thier hands dirty or needing to clean down inky print-plates and screens. Its the perfect solution for frustated printmakes who cant access physical resources and print rooms!

To participate you need a PC or Mac running Adobe Photoshop

Duration: One hour

Introduction to Tapestry Weaving

Learn how to weave around a form and understand different weave patterns.

You will need:

• Either a piece of wood, card or foam board (from 10 x 10 cm up to 30 x 30 cm, or something in between)
• Some threads - anything from sewing threads, garden twine, knitting yarns to cut up fabrics
• Scissors
• Tape
• Notepad
• Pencil

Heart Makers Project

• A4 drawing paper
• Pencils in a range of colours

Tie-dye with coffee and tea

Create patterns on fabric using coffee and tea. No experience necessary!

You will need:

• Any light-coloured, natural fabric (cotton, silk etc.). This could be an old t-shirt, pillowcase, blouse/shirt
• Used coffee granules/coffee grounds/coffee and tea bags
• String or thread to tie fabrics
• Salt
• Hot water
• Food colourings and/or fabric pens (not essential)
• PLUS a sieve for rinsing fabrics off

Create your own Masked Singer: Collage design for costume

Learn how to experiment with collage art materials to create costume designs inspired by The Masked Singer. Use a figure stencil and a cartoon character to create the desired costume silhouette and add celebratory clues to achieve a costume design visual.

You will need:

• A4 paper
• Collage materials such as tissue paper, printed paper,
• Coloured pens or pencils
• Glue stick
• Scissors

Introduction to Animation in Photoshop

This workshop will give you an introduction to using Adobe Photoshop software for simple animation for Surface Pattern, Textiles, Graphics and Fashion

You will need:

• A selection of drawings or photos to work from
• Access to Abobe Photoshop

Chairs and Seating - Product Design

Do you want to know how products are made? In this workshop, participants will look at why the design of daily life products is a challenge and why the user has the last say on whether that product is a success or not.   

Using basic materials and a hands-on approach students will interact with key principles of product design practice through experiential learning. Our hour-long workshops support students to gain new perspectives on the role of Product Designers and the impact of design in people’s lives.  

Duration

This workshop is expected to run for:

• 1 hour (60 minutes)

Delivery

• This workshop can be offered to your school or college face-to-face on our campus or in your school, or online. 
• You will need pencils, pens, felt tip pens, fineliners or literally anything that can leave a trace behind. Coloured pencils or markers. Some paper, if recycled even better.  Scissors. Any tape: masking tape, sticky tape, etc. 
• Post workshop Q&A with a tutor from the BA/BSc Product Design course. 

What is the outcome of the workshop?

Our creative workshop introduce the concept of Human-centred design and encourage young students to develop product design ideas that meet real needs. The students will design a product that can be included in their portfolios in preparation for their Product Design course application.