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Digital Textile design

Digital Textile Design for Fashion

  • Ages: 18+
  • Term: Autumn
  • Length: 10 weeks

Overview

On this innovative 10-week course you’ll explore the creative possibilities that technology brings to textile design for fashion.

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What you need to know

Autumn 2025

Tuesday 7 October – 9 December 2025 (10 Tuesday evenings, 18.00-21.00)

Age

Suitable for adults aged 18+.

Level

Beginners or anyone with some experience who want to refresh or develop their skills further.

Experience or qualifications required

None – this is an introductory course. We have no formal academic entry requirements for our short courses.

If you'd like to discuss if this course is suitable for you, get in touch with us: academy@aub.ac.uk or 01202 363222.

£359

Any additional costs

You'll need to provide basic materials. This'll incur an additional cost if you need to purchase one for the course. See the 'What to bring to class' section below for full details.

Course materials included in the price

Any additional materials and resources not listed below will be provided by AUB.

  • A4 folder for handouts and notes
  • Sketchbook
  • A USB drive (16 GB minimum)
  • Notebook and pen/pencil
  • Drawing materials such as pencils, pen, paints, pastels, coloured papers and glue stick
  • A selection of images, photographs and/or drawing and ideas to work from
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About this course

This new course has been specially developed to help you explore the creative possibilities of digital textiles design for Fashion. You'll be introduced to Adobe Photoshop, learning the tools, techniques, and processes to help you create a cohesive collection of digital print designs.

You'll be able to experiment with a wide range of different techniques and processes that will enable you to express yourself and hone your skills within the area of digital textiles. These resolved designs will then be printed using a sublimation process onto a range of different fashion fabrics, and you will also be taught how to visualise your designs as garments and accessories.

This course is fashion-focused, but can easily relate to print design for interiors or product pattern design. The concepts, principles, and skills that you will learn and develop are easily transferrable and can also be applied to a vast array of finished outcomes, including interiors products, soft furnishings, wallpapers, ceramics, or framed art works.

During this 10-week immersive course, you'll enter the world of sensational colour, pattern and texture, which will help to inform and inspire your design collection. Lessons will have step by step exercises to guide you through the programme with a multitude of examples to inspire you.

Your tutor, Aston Clowes, has a degree in Textiles and currently works at Arts University Bournemouth running the digital print resources for BA (Hons) Fashion and BA (Hons) Textiles Design courses.

  • Researching into current trends, colours, themes and concepts to develop your own design briefs.
  • Creating mood boards and colour palettes.
  • Induction to Adobe Photoshop for textiles prints design, these sessions will cover scanning and cleaning up drawings/imagery.
  • Use a range of different tools and techniques, such as layers, drawing, selection and editing tools.
  • Creating motifs.
  • Placement and engineered prints.
  • Repeating prints such as Block, Stripe, Mirror, half drop, brick and seamless all over patterns.
  • Design development.
  • Format and save designs ready for printing.
  • Sublimation prints onto a selection of fashion fabric of final designs.
  • Using photoshop to visualise final design on fashion garments and accessories.

At the end of the course you'll:

  • Gain the knowledge to confidently use photoshop tools, techniques, and processes for print design for fashion.
  • Gain the skills and confidence to develop a cohesive collection of digital textiles designs.
  • Provide you with the ability to pre-visualise your designs and outcome.
  • Leave the course with a mood board, a collection of digital designs, visualisations of designs in context and swatch samples of your final design’s sublimation printed onto fashion fabrics.
  • Possess improved artistic skills
  • Have increased confidence in your own skills and feel inspired
  • Have boosted creativity and imagination
  • Possess the foundations to continue creating beyond this course
  • You can request a certificate to confirm your achievements, providing you've a 100% attendance record. To request a certificate please get in touch with us at academy@aub.ac.uk and confirm your name and the title of course you've completed.

Will I be assessed?

No, there's no formal assessment. As the course progresses, your tutor will measure your overall performance and offer essential guidance and feedback so you know how you're getting on.

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