GUIDELINES FOR PROJECT COURSE

TAI5563 Fashion Design Development

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DEPARTMENT OF TEXTILE AND APPAREL TECHNOLOGY

OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

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CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................... 3
1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 4
Part A: Textile Design Development ..................................................................................................... 4
Part B: Fashion Accessory Design Development .................................................................................. 4
2.0 AIM OF THE PROJECT COURSE ................................................................................................ 4
3.0 OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................. 5
4.0 WORK PLAN .................................................................................................................................. 6
5.0 PROJECT ACTIVITES ................................................................................................................... 7
Introductory session ............................................................................................................................... 7
Project diary & the Learning log ........................................................................................................... 7
Proposal presentation ............................................................................................................................. 7
Progress presentations ............................................................................................................................ 7
Final report writing ................................................................................................................................ 9
6.0 SUPERVISION.............................................................................................................................. 10
7.0 STUDENT COMMITMENT......................................................................................................... 10
8.0 EVALUATION.............................................................................................................................. 10
9.0 EXAMPLE WORK FOR A PROJECT ......................................................................................... 11

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
The course TAI5563 Fashion Design Development is a Level 5 course offered in the specialization of
Fashion Design and Product Development steam of the Bachelor of Industrial Studies programme,
offered by the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology of the Open University of Sri Lanka.
This project is of one year duration and carries five credits of course work. This means students are
expected to spend about 250 Notional Learning Hours to complete this course.

Students get freedom to select one area from part A and B given below to complete their course
works as,
Part A: Textile design development
Part B: Fashion accessory design development

Part A: Textile Design Development

The Part A of the project involves development of a textile fabric design to a selected client.
The textile material developed for this purpose can be a curtain, bed-spread, table linen,
wall hangings, upholstery, cushion covers, or any other textile material.
Final outcome can be two dimensional or three dimensional products. The objective of this
project is to make the student expand his or her knowledge in relation to textile
preparation, textile design and textile product development through a systematic step by
step process.

Part B: Fashion Accessory Design Development

The Part B of the project involves the development of a fashion accessory to a selected client.
Fashion accessory can be a carry bag, jewelery, shoe, hat, etc. You have to select any one and design
the product including all the development steps. The objective of this project is to make the student
expand his or her knowledge on conducting a background study on the selected area of product
design, development of the steps involved in designing the product, and the steps involved in the
product development.

2.0 AIM OF THE PROJECT COURSE

The aim of the project course is to give the student an opportunity to apply his or her theoretical
knowledge obtained by following the courses offered in Level 3 and 4 of the Bachelor of Industrial
Studies programme in the area of specialization of Fashion Design and Product Development and
the practical skills gathered through his or her own experience in real life situations of fashion
product development.

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3.0 OBJECTIVES
On successful completion of the project you should be able to;
• analyze any fashion requirements you are confronted with
• find favourable solutions to the fashion requirements by employing different decision
making options,
• plan, organize and control functions to achieve better and effective outcomes to meet the
fashion requirement,
• decide on the manufacturing techniques that would make it practically feasible to develop
the textile, garment and accessory designed to meet the fashion requirement

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4.0 WORK PLAN

The flow-chart given below shows the steps you need to follow to successfully complete this course.

Repeat Candidates Registration

Introductory session

Draft proposal due

Proposal Presentation

Meet your supervisor to

get guidance

Final proposal due

Meet your supervisor to

get guidance

Progress Presentation 01(PP01)

Continuous
Meet your supervisor to
Assessment
get guidance

Progress Presentation 02(PP02)

Meet your supervisor to

get guidance

Progress Presentation 03(PP03)

Meet your supervisor to

get guidance

Project Diary submission

Fail the
Continuous
Assessment
Final Draft report

PP = Final report Progress

Presentation
Figure 1.1: Steps for Successful Completion of the Course

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5.0 PROJECT ACTIVITES

Introductory session
This session is organized to introduce the Project including expected outcomes, course content,
activities, evaluation criteria, etc:

A project selected by a student must contain scope for a substantial amount of theoretical study to
develop a practically feasible design concept. If the student is unable to find a suitable topic for the
project work on his or her own, the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology would assign
him/her relevant topics that are related to his/her area of interest.

Project diary & the Learning log

Students are strongly urged to maintain a close contact with their supervisors pertaining to the
project undertaken while maintaining the Project Diary and the Learning log to keep record on
their project works. Project diary and the Learning log ensure that the students are working on their
project throughout the year. Works of the learning log are considered to give mark for the project
diary.
The student should record all the activities carried out by him or her in the Learning log with date
and time and bring the diary every time when s/he visits the University in relation to the Project
course and must get it endorsed by the supervisors. Students have to maintain their learning log
continuously until the project ends.
Supervisors are making any comments or instructions for project work considering the learning log
and discussion with the students to carry out works in the Project diary.
Students should meet the supervisors as often as possible to make sure that their work is
progressing in the correct direction. Student would be requested to bring both learning log and
project diary to meet supervisor for get comments. Student needs meet his/her appointed
supervisor for project works throughout the year, at least minimum of five times to get advice and
guidance.
It is needed to get supervisor's comments and signatures in the student project diary each time the
student meets the supervisor. The Project Diary need be submitted to the department at the
stipulated date. Marks allocated to the Project Diary will be included in the Overall Continuous
Assessment Mark.

Proposal presentation
Student need to select Part A or B in this project according to their preference and present the ideas
using a standard computer presentation package, such as MS PowerPoint. The staff would give
their feedback based on presentation which would enable the student to carry out his work in the
correct direction. The dress code of the presenters should be smart casual.

Progress presentations
Flowchart given below show the basic steps you should follow to progress with you course work.

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Step 01: Select and identify the customer

Customer preferences / Customer survey

Background study on the customer

PP01
Step 02: Identify the area to do design development

Background study on selective area

Evolution of different design approaches in
history related to the purpose

Step 03: Design development steps

Select an inspiration
Study and analysis the inspiration in
PP02 designing point of views
Develop fashion sketches
Select a final design

Step 04: Product development steps

Prepare production sketch/ Technical drawing

on selective design
Prepare specification sheets on final
product development
PP03 Prepare operation breakdown to
develop a design
Scale drawing of the final desired look
of the design in different views and
angles

Figure 1.2: Contents of the continues assessment works in the course work
Part A

The student should identify a design project work related to textile design development. Final
outcome of the project may be a fabric, tapestry, wall hanging, etc. The product has to be specified
as belonging to one area of textile designing such as weaving, knitting, or any other manufacturing
method with a colouration technique such as printing, dyeing, etc.

Students have to present their topic area, expected specialized areas in textile design, time plan, and
examples or initial sketches to explain the final expected outcome.

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After the concept presentation the Department will assign two supervisors to guide the student
with the course work on design and product development related to the specialized areas.

Part B

The student should identify a design project work related to a garment or accessory design
development. The final outcome of the project may be a garment, jewelry, head wear, foot wear,
hand bag, etc. The students should specify one area with the expected outcome of the project.

Students have to present their topic area, expected specialized areas in textile design, time plan, and
examples or initial sketches to explain the final expected outcome.

After the concept presentation the Department will assign two supervisors to guide the student
with the course work on design and product development related to the specialized areas.

Final report writing

In the final stage of evaluation students need to submit a Final report. Only those students who
have successfully completed the continuous assessments are eligible to write and submit the final
report.

In the first instance the students are requested to submit the final draft report to their supervisors
in a ‘draft’ format in given date in activity diary, for his or her comments and input. Final report
needs to be submitted with the suggested corrections of the errors, recommended changes,
modifications or improvements. The report should be prepared in conformity with the guidelines
given in the document titled Guidelines for the Submission of the Final Design Project Report.

The Final project report must show evidence of the candidate’s proficiency in report writing skills,
good presentation skills, Project introduction, design development skills, product development
skills, adequate knowledge and discussion of the literature in specific study areas. Sketchers of
concept development, product strategy report including Marketing information, customer details,
market segmentation and costing, sketchers of design developments, mood boards/ story boards,
colour palets, fabric or material boards are need to present for Related to concept and design
development. Final design with technical specifications and methods of constructions are needed to
present related to the product development stage.

Students are requested to follow the document “Guidance for the submission of final report
writing” given by Department of Textile and Apparel Technology to complete the final report
writing. Please consider main areas given below to complete the body of the report.

• Project introduction (project identification/ Objectives/ Methodology/ Literature review)

• Studied areas related to the project works

• Concept development steps
• Design development steps
• Product development steps

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6.0 SUPERVISION
Academics from Department of Textile and Apparel Technology will be appointed by the
supervisors to conduct the project works. The supervisor is responsible for monitoring the progress
of the project on behalf of the University. S/he is also responsible for guiding and advising students
in the pursuit of their project. Students are strongly urged to maintain a close contact with their
supervisors pertaining to the project undertaken.

7.0 STUDENT COMMITMENT

The student is fully responsible for identifying and specifying a suitable topic, carrying out the
project and its successful completion according to the guidelines issued by the department. They
are also responsible for obtaining any data/information required for the project works. The student
must consult the project supervisors regularly and inform them about the progress of the project,
and obtain necessary assistance from them to ensure satisfactory progress.

8.0 EVALUATION
The overall assessment of a project consists of two components. Each component will be assessed
through presentations, assessing the project diary and the final practical outcome of the project
work.

Continues Assessment Mark (CA mark)

The presentations will be assessed by the academics and invitees of the Faculty. Students must
maintain a Progress Diary, wherein the supervisor would write his/her comments on the work the
student must carry out regularly. It is compulsory that the student meets the supervisor as often as
possible. If the progress of the student is not satisfactory s/he may not obtain the necessary marks
for the continuous assessment. The students who have successfully completed the continuous
assessment are eligible to present final Project Report and the viva-voce.

Eligibility criteria of the courses are follows,

(PP1)0.2 + (PP2)0.3 + (PP3)0.4 + (PD)0.1 ≥ 40

Final Examination (FE mark)

The assessment of a student registered for a Project shall be based on a project report submitted
(Final Report Submission) by her/him.

Minimum of two examiners for the assessment of the project report and the oral examination shall
be appointed, by the Senate on the recommendation of the Department and Faculty of Engineering
Technology.

Final submissions to achieve pass mark of the course is follows,

Final Report (FR) ≥ 40

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Final marks=Final presentation 60% + Final report 40%

Overall Assessment Mark

The overall assessment mark (Z) of a student shall be based on the mark obtained in the continuous
assessment and at the final examination.

Formula to get overall mark is as follows,

CA mark x 0.5 + FE mark x 0.5 = Overall Mark

Each student who sits the final examination will be awarded a grade dependent on the Overall
Assessment Mark as follows:

85  Z : A+

75  Z  85 :A

70  Z  75 : A-

63  Z  70 : B+

55  Z  63 :B

50  Z  55 : B-

45  Z  50 : C+

40  Z  45 :C

35  Z  40 : C-

30  Z  35 : D+

20  Z  30 :D

Z  20 :E

A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+ & C constitute Pass grades.

A student who is awarded a C-, D+, D and E grades cannot count that course towards her/his
credit requirements unless s/he re-sits the Final Examination on a subsequent occasion and obtains
a C grade.

9.0 EXAMPLE WORK FOR A PROJECT

Below gives a brief discussion on an example of the essential areas to complete TAI5263 Project

Topic: Design of a Mobile for “Punchi Theatre”, Borella.

Study: Study is conducted related to Mobile designs of several designers throughout the history.
Design concepts, appearance of designs, locations to place the mobile, methods, materials
and preparation steps are studied.

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Prepare a site visit to “Punchi Theatre”, Borella. Discuss the requirement and ideas on mobile
design from the owner’s point of view. Get their feedback through a questionnaire.

Design Development: Select an inspiration considering the customer requirement, conducted study
and the designer’s point of view. Analyse the selected inspiration. Do sketches and select the
final design. Develop more designs considering different perspectives. Do a set of clear
drawing on final design showing the front, back and side view.

Product Development: Do set of technical drawings to show the front, back and side view of the
design. Prepare the operation breakdown and specification sheets considering each and
every preparation step. Select materials and accessories to prepare the design product.

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