Licenciatura en Bellas Artes (BFA) en Diseño de Vestuario

Undergraduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Research and Concept Development

• Produce creative and original designs
• Seleccionar conceptos de diseño apropiados para el cliente o audiencia.
• Generar ideas que se relacionen coherentemente con el concepto elegido.
• Realizar una investigación de diseño exhaustiva.
• Demonstrate evidence of trialing and self-editing designs
• Propose designs that are possible to translate from 2D to 3D

Visual Presentation Skills

• Create professional and organized presentations that reflect an individual/personal style
• Comunicar eficazmente conceptos y filosofía de diseño en dos dimensiones.

Technical Skills

• Work effectively with industry-standard software
• Demostrar competencia técnica en comunicación de diseño.

Verbal and Written Presentation Skills

• Expresar claramente ideas utilizando vocabulario de la industria.

Professional Readiness

• Create a relevant and original portfolio and collateral materials that can be used to market themselves to the industry

Habilidades de diseño de vestuario

• Demostrar habilidades avanzadas en alteraciones, angustia y montaje rápido de piezas de vestuario para producciones teatrales.
• Documentar y aplicar eficazmente los comentarios del director, el elenco y el equipo a los diseños de vestuario.
• Prepare una biblia de producción organizada y legible que incluya todos los cuadros, documentos y fotografías relevantes.
• Mantener la coherencia en la apariencia del vestuario y el peinado y maquillaje de los actores durante toda la producción.

Academy of Art University Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Academy of Art University will demonstrate the ability to:

• Produce a body of work suitable for seeking professional opportunities in their chosen field of art and design.
• Solve creative problems within their field of art and design, including research and synthesis of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge.
• Communicate their ideas professionally and connect with their intended audience using visual, oral, and written presentation skills relevant to their field.
• Execute technical, aesthetic, and conceptual decisions based on an understanding of art and design principles.
• Evaluate work in their field, including their own work, using professional terminology.
• Recognize the influence of major cultural and aesthetic trends, both historical and contemporary, on art and design products.
• Learn the professional skills and behaviors necessary to compete in the global marketplace for art and design.

Academy of Art University offers some of the best training and hands-on experience to help accelerate your career. We pride ourselves in doing an exceptional job preparing you to excel in your future fashion careers. Our degree programs are designed to equip aspiring fashion professionals with a comprehensive toolbox of marketable skills that lead to success in the fashion industry.

Fashion Designer

Based on your conceptual vision, your grasp of fashion direction, and your ability to anticipate designs that will appeal to consumers, you will transform your fashion inspirations into original collections of clothing. Sketch, select colors and fabrics, and give direction to make the products you design.

Design Director

Oversee trends, color, and fabric direction for upcoming seasons across all product lines as a design director for a fashion label. You will manage design teams, oversee manufacturing and marketing, and set the direction for a brand voice to create the future of fashion.

Knitwear Designer

You will create ideas for a range of products including sweaters, cardigans, knit jackets and coats, knit dresses, and knit accessories. A wide variety of environments will be open to you - from retail brands to boutiques, to freelancing and will work with apparel manufacturers to create men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market.

Textile Designer

You will research, draw, and design seasonal prints for fashion, interiors, and other surfaces using both hand-drawing and computer skills. Design repeat patterns and graphic prints for the home and apparel. Create and inspire the next wave of textile designs.

Unit Requirements

Degree Requirements

• 1 Written Communication: Composition
• 1 Written Communication: Critical Thinking
• 1 Written Communication: Context & Style
• 2 Art Historical Awareness: Western Art
• 1 Conciencia histórica del arte: encuestas
• 1 Historical Awareness
• 1 Curso de Conciencia Histórica de la Moda
• 1 Quantitative Literacy
• 1 Cultural Ideas & Influences
• 1 Employment Communications & Practices

Curriculum

Semester 1

• FSH 100: Drawing for Fashion (Core)
• FSH 140: Introducción al diseño de vestuario (básico)
• FSH 164: Fashion Sewing Techniques (Core)
• LA 101: Freshman Symposium: Artistic Resilience (Liberal Arts)

Semester 2

• FSH 102: Drawing for Fashion 2 (Core)
• FSH 120: Color Science and Fabric Technology (Core)
• FSH 161: Técnicas digitales para el negocio de la moda (Core)
  Recomendado para el verano
• FSH 181: Diseño de vestuario para cine (básico)
• LA 108: Composition for the Artist (Liberal Arts)
  Recommended for summer
• LA 244: Historia de la Moda (Artes Liberales)

Semester 3

• FSH 241: Producción de vestuario para cine (básico)
• FSH 274: Applied Textiles 1 (Core)
• LA 120: Art History Through the 15th Century (Liberal Arts)
• LA 291: Designing Careers (Liberal Arts)

Semester 4

• FSH 182: Diseño de Vestuario para el Escenario (Núcleo)
• FSH 184: Estilo (principal)
• FSH 220: Construction/Draping/Flat Pattern 1 (Core)
• FSH 311: Sombrerería (principal)
• LA 121: Art History Through the 19th Century (Liberal Arts)
  Recommended for summer
• LA 202: English Composition: Creative Persuasion & Argument (Liberal Arts)
  Recommended for summer

Semester 5

• FSH 230: Construcción/Drapeado/Diseño plano 2 (principal)
• FSH 242: Producción de vestuario para escenario (principal)
• FSH 243: Diseño de vestuario para danza (especialidad)
• LA 119: Tecnología de tejidos y fibras (Artes liberales)

Semester 6

• FSH 300: Desarrollo de productos: Colección de calzado (principal)
• FSH 342: Producción de diseño de vestuario (especialidad)
• FSH 344: Tejido y Forma (Optativa)
• Recommended for summer
• LA 110: Writing the Short Story (Liberal Arts)
  Recommended for summer
• LA 171: Western Civilization (Liberal Arts)
• LA 292: Programming & Culture (Liberal Arts)

Semester 7

• FSH 240: El tutú clásico: Introducción (principal)
• FSH 390: Prácticas Profesionales y Portafolio para Negocios de Moda (Core)
• LA 124: Physics for Artists: Light, Sound, and Motion (Liberal Arts)
• LA 282: Historia del cine 2: 1940-1974 (Artes liberales)

Semester 8

• FSH 284: Producción de sesiones fotográficas para estilistas (optativa)
• FSH 441: Construcción de vestuario renacentista (principal)
• FSH 500: Prácticas en Moda (Optativa)
  Recomendado para el verano
• JEM 110: Joyería y artes del metal 1 (principal)
• LA 154: Grandes Actuaciones: Actores Legendarios de la Gran Pantalla (Artes Liberales)
  Recomendado para el verano
• MPT 301: Maquillaje: calle y efectos especiales (principal)