CSM Graphic Communication Design alumni and art director Kyle Harman-Turner on the potential of football to bring global warming awareness That’s one reason it’s great to have a small fashion sketchbook in your purse at all times, because you never know when inspiration may strike. Whether it’s the stylish woman on the metro or a garment in the window of a fancy store, it’s good to capture ideas as soon as you have them. With fashion sketchbooks you can focus on drawing a single piece of clothing, or you can try to capture an idea for a full outfit or styling.

The Elements of Invention; Designing a Sustainable Future; Interview:Sonja Nesse; Interview: Sunghee Bang Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology they will make sure they explain what they mean. New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way thats crystal clear and easy to understand. Your design philosophy; Exercise 5: Visualizing Your Design Philosophy; Identifying your customer; Exercise 6: Your Key Fashion Message; Targeting your market; Exercise 7: Market and customer analysis; Visualizing your design direction; Interview: Naama Doktofsky; Interview: Daniel Silverstein The outcome will be a collection of work in sketchbook form, a personal and varied set of fashion work that explores and investigates different and individual themes chosen by each student. Students should also produce supporting work, such as smaller A5 sketch books and research files.Creativity, Originality and Inspiration; Your cultural universe; Exercise 1: Building a Fabric Archive; Putting It All Together; Exercise 2: Your Own Remix; Sketching in the Moment; Exercise 3: Research Sketching; Transition to Design; Exercise 4: Visual Storytelling/ Mind Mapping; Interview: Scott Nylund; Interview: Renaldo Barnette The word croquis literally translates to "sketch." However, in the fashion world a croquis is a body template from which you sketch. One of the biggest advantages of fashion sketchbooks is that you really don’t need to be good at drawing! Just use the croquis as an outline and mark on your seamlines and details, and you’ll end up with a great representation of your design. Theoretically, a fashion sketchbook could be any pad of paper or book where you draw ideas for garments! However, the key to most specially-designed sketchbooks is that they contain croquis. Do you ever see someone wearing an amazing outfit on the street, think “oh, I must copy that!” and then promptly forget?

This book identifies four distinct types of creative journal, each representing a different phase in the design process: the inspiration diary, the working journal, the presentation journal and the design log; and it explores how one develops out of the other, each stage in the idea generation process moving the process forward organically from discovery, to direction, to design development and delivery.You should finish the course having a sketchbook filled with design ideas for potential fashion collections and a new confidence to develop new designs. UAL Enterprising Alumni Network Event: Purpose-driven and social enterprise from UAL Alumni - Meet the Speakers You will learn through a mix of one-to-one advice, group discussions, guided research trips and self-directed work. This article is part of a series showcasing and celebrating outstanding sketchbooks by students, artists and designers.You may also be interested in viewing our other sketchbook resources: Presentation Sketchbook Considerations; Content Edit for Presentation Sketchbook; Content Presentation; Spatial Dynamics; The Working Sketch; Exercise 13: Process Sketch to Working Sketch; Sequencing Plan; Exercise 14: Presentation Sequencing Plan; Interview: Peter Do; Interview: Kieran Dallison