DFB204 Fashion Product Development
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| Unit code: | DFB204 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | DFB105, DYB122, DFB302, or KFB107 |
| Equivalent(s): | DFB406, KFB211 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Introductory fashion visualisation skills are assumed knowledge. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DFB204 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | DFB105, DYB122, DFB302, or KFB107 |
| Equivalent: | DFB406, KFB211 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Introductory fashion visualisation skills are assumed knowledge. |
| Coordinator: | Melanie Finger | m.finger@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application for professional fashion communication and product development in the fashion industry. It focuses on commercial fashion design and product styling. Developing consumer products in the fashion industry requires diverse skills and knowledge in trend analysis, range building, sourcing, finishing, specification sheets and marketing to ensure successful and sustainable outcomes. By developing a foundational knowledge in product development you will be prepared to work in commercial fashion or to create your own fashion brand.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Analyse the market to determine appropriate styling, fabrication and finishing for timely fashion products and/or services.
- Collaboratively apply research of trends, design, sustainable supply chains and manufacture to develop a commercial fashion range.
- Apply written, visual and oral communications skills for fashion contexts taking into account industry relevant contexts.
Content
The unit addresses content such as:
- trend/design analysis
- fashion research skills (primary and secondary)
- textile sourcing and selection
- specification sheets for factories
- garment finishing and manufacture
- product specification
- sustainable business skills
- planning for change in the fashion industry
- careers and business opportunities within the fashion industry.
Learning Approaches
Through interactive lectures and workshops you will be encouraged to adopt a ‘real-world’ approach to product development. You will have the opportunity to meet and discuss the fashion industry with guest speakers, and to analyse and report on issues, trends and results. As well as individual work you will be asked to collaborate in teams to design a production ready, commercial fashion range, using state of the art techniques and technologies.
In the online mode of this unit, you will learn through engaging in a variety of online activities, online self-directed learning, and weekly research and readings that are designed to support your learning experience. The recorded lectures will examine conceptual and theoretical principles and issues across a variety of design areas, with a focus on contemporary case studies. Throughout the online delivery of this unit, you will receive support from your instructors and peers. You will have access to online resources and materials, and you will be able to communicate with your instructors and peers via various online platforms. A variety of support materials will be published on the Canvas website to coordinate the unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester. In addition you will receive feedback and advice from your tutors monitoring the progress of your research and development. You will share ideas with peers and provide constructive feedback to others over the semester. Online criteria sheets and Canvas general comments to cohort group will be used to provide feedback on assessable items.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit students you will conduct product development research into garment styles, fashion trends, and fashion business models in order to propose product ranges responding to consumer needs. You will be introduced to brand and designer signatures, and collaborate in teams to develop a commercial fashion range that will fit a specific brand’s market and will be production ready. You will take part in two assessments, in the first one you will independently research a specific fashion segment to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the fashion reality of that particular market. For the second assessment, with a more ambitious approach, you will collaborate to successfully develop a market-ready fashion range that will fulfil the needs of the target consumer audience.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Forecast
Assessment: Capsule collection
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit but additional resources and readings will be available on Canvas through the semester.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
There are no undue risks associated with the delivery of this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2 - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | DFB204 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | DFB105, DYB122, DFB302, or KFB107 |
| Equivalent: | DFB406, KFB211 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Introductory fashion visualisation skills are assumed knowledge. |
Overview
This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application for professional fashion communication and product development in the fashion industry. It focuses on commercial fashion design and product styling. Developing consumer products in the fashion industry requires diverse skills and knowledge in trend analysis, range building, sourcing, finishing, specification sheets and marketing to ensure successful and sustainable outcomes. By developing a foundational knowledge in product development you will be prepared to work in commercial fashion or to create your own fashion brand.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Analyse the market to determine appropriate styling, fabrication and finishing for timely fashion products and/or services.
- Collaboratively apply research of trends, design, sustainable supply chains and manufacture to develop a commercial fashion range.
- Apply written, visual and oral communications skills for fashion contexts taking into account industry relevant contexts.
Content
The unit addresses content such as:
- trend/design analysis
- fashion research skills (primary and secondary)
- textile sourcing and selection
- specification sheets for factories
- garment finishing and manufacture
- product specification
- sustainable business skills
- planning for change in the fashion industry
- careers and business opportunities within the fashion industry.
Learning Approaches
Through interactive lectures and workshops you will be encouraged to adopt a ‘real-world’ approach to product development. You will have the opportunity to meet and discuss the fashion industry with guest speakers, and to analyse and report on issues, trends and results. As well as individual work you will be asked to collaborate in teams to design a production ready, commercial fashion range, using state of the art techniques and technologies.
In the online mode of this unit, you will learn through engaging in a variety of online activities, online self-directed learning, and weekly research and readings that are designed to support your learning experience. The recorded lectures will examine conceptual and theoretical principles and issues across a variety of design areas, with a focus on contemporary case studies. Throughout the online delivery of this unit, you will receive support from your instructors and peers. You will have access to online resources and materials, and you will be able to communicate with your instructors and peers via various online platforms. A variety of support materials will be published on the Canvas website to coordinate the unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester. In addition you will receive feedback and advice from your tutors monitoring the progress of your research and development. You will share ideas with peers and provide constructive feedback to others over the semester. Online criteria sheets and Canvas general comments to cohort group will be used to provide feedback on assessable items.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit students you will conduct product development research into garment styles, fashion trends, and fashion business models in order to propose product ranges responding to consumer needs. You will be introduced to brand and designer signatures, and collaborate in teams to develop a commercial fashion range that will fit a specific brand’s market and will be production ready. You will take part in two assessments, in the first one you will independently research a specific fashion segment to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the fashion reality of that particular market. For the second assessment, with a more ambitious approach, you will collaborate to successfully develop a market-ready fashion range that will fulfil the needs of the target consumer audience.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Forecast
Assessment: Capsule collection
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit but additional resources and readings will be available on Canvas through the semester.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
There are no undue risks associated with the delivery of this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2 - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3