SDES3400 Textile Industry and Forecasting develops your knowledge and experience of the textile design industry. It challenges with creative ways of developing designs and complex industry based design projects requiring innovative solutions, and involves a critical appraisal of the role of trends and forecasting on contemporary design. Project briefs cover designing for a range of industries and will include a selection from fashion, apparel, home wares, interior and / or exterior locations. Projects will involve self-selecting a preferred industry sector, allowing you to focus your design skills towards this sector and to develop expertise in their specific design requirements.

Project documentation and presentation methods are expected to reflect a substantial individual sophistication of textile design ideas, techniques, execution and realization for the specific textiles industry plus an understanding of the environmental and sustainable issues for materials, processes and use of resources involved in these sectors.

SDES3400 Textile Industry and Forecasting and SDES3401 Smart Textiles and New Technologies are complementary 3rd year courses which, together form the two x 3000 level core studies in the Textile Design studio stream within the BDes program. Together these courses build on the skills and knowledge acquired from previous Textile Design studio stream courses and prepare you for more advanced studies in the 4000 level courses of this program.