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Fashion Business: Industry Dynamics

The business of fashion is complex. You will get a comprehensive look at how various components of fashion business—product development, sourcing, buying, marketing, and retailing—are intertwined to create a powerful industry.

Fantasy Portrait Sculpture

Get creative and sculpt a 1/3rd scale fantasy self-portrait in oil-based clay over three fun weeks! Learn portrait anatomy basics as you build your sculpture, shape your features, and add imaginative twists to bring your vision to life. Finish with a gallery exhibit showcasing your mini masterpiece for all to… Read More

Study Abroad: Fashion Culture and Industry

Discover the impact of Italy on the fashion industry as you explore its rich history of craft, design, materiality, and manufacturing. Field trips to museums, markets, shops, and exhibitions will help you synthesize your research, experience, and resources in a journal and polished report, tailored to your area of study. Read More

Studio 2

Create a functional and imaginative workplace for your commercial client. In your second major studio, you’ll develop plans and drawings, select furniture and materials, produce construction documents, and produce a dynamic presentation based on programming and your conceptual design.

Classical Aesthetics and the Renaissance

Examine the ideas that helped shape the Renaissance. Considering the art and ideas of ancient Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe as the foundation, you’ll analyze the art of the Renaissance and its transition to the modern world.

3D Design 1

Build a foundation in 3D design and garment development. You will be introduced to pattern shape manipulation and learn core principles of pattern drafting and garment construction to meet commercial fashion standards.

Fashion Design 3

Take your design skills to the next level. You will collaborate on a project to expand your knowledge of target markets, apply sustainable practice in your design process, and develop a body of work that represents your ideal future in the fashion industry and showcases your design philosophy and strengths.

Head Sculpting and Facial Expression

Create believable facial animation. As a 3D modeling major, you’ll learn to properly model a head with clean topology, create a facial, and build a facial rig.

Natural Systems in the Landscape

How do natural systems influence design decisions? While developing a deep understanding of natural systems, you’ll explore landscapes in your region to learn how to develop strategies for mapping and recording soil types, geological forms, watersheds, and other natural features. (This course is cross-listed with LAN 115.)

Web Design 1

HTML and CSS are the backbone of the web. As you develop your coding skills, you’ll learn strategies in site architecture, navigation, file management, and more to create highly intuitive websites.