BESPOKE: WORKSHOP SERIES
Discover your inner designer, get your hands dirty and stimulate your mind with Sydney Design’s inaugural workshop series. No previous experience necessary, just bring your hunger to learn and create.
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Workshops
SILVERSMITHING FOR BEGINNERS
Located in the heart of Surry Hills’ design precinct, metalab contemporary jewellery gallery is offering a unique workshop experience. Learn the art of jewellery making with foundation techniques. In this course of two sessions held on consecutive Saturday’s you will be given a workshop orientation and learn fundamental skills (more…)
TAKE A BALL OF THREAD
Based on Melinda Young’s jewellery project of the same name, you’re invited to make a piece of jewellery using a ball of sewing thread. The premise is simple: by using a common domestic material, engaging with and re-working simple craft techniques (and perhaps inventing some new ones), sewing thread becomes the vehicle for fantastic wearable creations, either as a material in itself or in combination with other found objects.
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: FASHIONING NOW
Aimed at secondary and tertiary students, the From Trash to Treasure workshops create fashion from what would otherwise be waste. The first workshop focuses on “upcycling” of discarded materials through textile manipulation and rich embellishment.
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INTENSIVE SHOEMAKING COURSE
A five-day closely directed learning experience, focusing students on applying the techniques and skills necessary to design and make one pair of custom shoes. The course covers pattern making/design, cutting clicking patterns and leather, upper stitching, lasting and finishing. All the steps required for making your own custom shoe.
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DESIGNING WITH LETTERPRESS
Explore traditional and experimental methods of designing and printing with letterpress. Letterpress is a traditional form of print-design manufacture that transfers the inked surface of raised wood and metal letters to paper on a hand press. Over five consecutive Saturdays students will explore the contemporary applications of this method and the allure of the handmade in current graphic design practices.
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FASHION DRAWING: THE ESMOD MÉTHODE
Learn to draw like a fashion designer. Using the celebrated ESMOD Méthode form Paris, participants are introduced to fashion illustration fundamentals. The fashion figure, The fashion face, Clothing a figure, Basic rendering techniques. (more…)
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION ONE DAY SEMINAR
Do you have family heirlooms which need preserving? Would you like to know how to store precious textiles and garments? Are beads missing from your vintage handbag? Meet ESMOD vintage experts to pick up advice and techniques on how to look after and restore your favourite items.
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VISUAL APPEAL: COLOUR AND TEXTURE IN FABRIC AND FASHION DESIGN
Explore the role of colour and texture in fashion design in a step-by-step workshop. Participate hands-on and produce a unified colour and texture scheme to apply to a fashion fabric “palette”; then apply the palette to your own fashion design “story”.
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FASHION IN THE 20TH CENTURY: HAUTE COUTURE AND THE ORIGINS OF READY-TO-WEAR
From the corsetry and crinolines of the late 19th century, through to the glamour and upheaval of the past one hundred years, explore key fashion designers and their signature design influences.
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EMBELLISHMENT: COUTURE BEADING AND EMBROIDERY TECHNIQUES
Examine and explore a range of introductory embroidery stitches and beading techniques used in haute couture fashion and antique clothing. Traditional stitching methods are applied to basic samples; latest textile trends provide inspiration for an embellishment design exercise.
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ELECTRONIC MEDIA ARTS WORKSHOP
A hands-on four-hour hour workshop to provide the tools to engage in the creative uses of electronic media as well as its application in commercial interaction design. Work with locative media and microprocessor boards to create a performance, interactive installation or media game. The aim is to create electronic media works at the boundaries of technological and artistic experimentation. (more…)
BEGINNERS GLASSBLOWING WORKSHOP
This hands-on intensive, 3-day workshop provides an introduction to glass-blowing techniques with a focus on studio safety and the added benefit of excellent student/teacher ratios. Learn from experienced professional tutors who will guide you through all the principal skills and techniques you will need to make your own variety of forms (more…)
TAPESTRY WEAVING
Drag the woven pixel into the virtual age in a hands-on four-day workshop. Examine digital imagery and focus on ways of turning virtual flickers of light on a computer monitor into an image woven as cloth. Anton Veentra’s practice is about engagement with materials, evoking their integrity and individuality.
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MAKE YOUR PORTFOLIO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD
Spend an afternoon with industry professionals from industrial, graphic, interior and textile design and take the fear and question marks out of creating your own unique portfolio. View a range of professional portfolios and presentation styles, ask questions, receive feedback and focus on what you would like your work to say about you.
