Fashion Design with Art & Design Foundation Year

Got a passion for creative design? Not quite ready to undertake a full honours degree? Solent University’s Design Foundation Programme is perfectly suited to students who may not be from an art- design- or fashion-related background or whose qualifications do not meet the admissions requirements of their chosen course.

To help get you up to speed, this one-year foundation course provides all the creative, technical and study skills needed for entry onto a degree-level art, design or fashion course. Upon completion, you will be able to progress onto a range of art-, design- and fashion- related courses here at Solent.

The course begins with a five-week group project. This enables students to mix with like-minded peers and helps them to settle in quickly. This project also helps students to decide which area they might like to follow at a later stage.

The following ten weeks are spent introducing students to the world of art, design and fashion. This includes design history, vocabulary, methods and academic foundation. This ten-week block will also give students the opportunity to learn and apply two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualisation techniques, giving them the tools required to conduct their final project.

This final project takes place in the last fifteen weeks of the course and is based around the specific discipline that the student will go on to study. The project will be supported by tuition in visual presentation techniques, enabling students to communicate their concepts, development processes and final proposals. Students will also receive instruction in verbal communication and presentation techniques, increasing their confidence in pitching design ideas.

FOUNDATION YEAR
CORE MODULES

Metamorphosis
Utopia and Dystopia
Creative Industries Launchpad
Creative Showcase

YEAR ONE
CORE MODULES

The Silhouette
Fashion Fundamentals
Concept to Consumer
Fashion Fabrication

YEAR TWO
CORE MODULES

Future Focus
Semiotics of Style
Form and Functionality
Capsule Collection

OPTIONAL MODULES - Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year

Creating a Product Range

FINAL YEAR
CORE MODULES

Portfolio and Professional Presence
ReFashion the Future
Final Collection Research and Development
Final Collection: Production

You may be assessed at the end of each block by:
Creative design projects
Garment production
Portfolios
Written assessments
Group presentations
As part of this course, you will study one module at a time, giving you the chance to build a deeper understanding and see the results of your hard work more quickly. With regular assessments and feedback, rather than exams all at once, you’ll also benefit from improved focus, and a more manageable workload.