Mood Board / Theme Board

 This is the first stage of organising thoughts

and collected images, enabling them to
channel their creative excitement towards a
cohesive and targeted design outcome.
 Mood boards should always present the
mood or flavour of the design project as well
as reflect the targeted customers.
 Mood Boards narrow down designing
process as key ideas become prioritised, a
clear thought process evolves and the job of
producing designs becomes simpler.
 Design Development
 The design development process considers all design elements
such as silhouettes, textures, patterns, colours and principle of
design. These basic elements provide an initial framework which
designers can expand into more complex designs. It involves
following steps:-
a. Idea sketch :-these are rough sketches for designers to write down
the ideas that might be useful for further design development.
b. Design development sketch :-in this stage the designer selects the
idea sketches and fully expands the initial concepts. Development
sketches could be finished with or without colour depending on
the availability of fabric samples.
c. Production sketch :-When designers have confirmed the final
design development, the next stage is to do technical working
drawing. This kind of drawing is called production drawings or tech
packs.
 Design Development
f. Sourcing :-After creating the tech pack designer
sends it to source different elements like
manufacturing, fabrics, trims, labels and packaging .
After sourcing ,tech packs are updated and sent to
factory for sampling.
g. sampling :- Tech packs are sent to factory where
prototype is developed. The development team fits
and reviews the sample and adjusts the tech pack
as necessary.
 FEEDBACK & IMPROVEMENT
 After finishing up the sampling process, Tech pack is
checked to be 100 percent accurate and updated.
Modifications are made until developing a final
prototype. When the design is approved a TOP (Top
of Production sample)and /or PP (pre-production
sample) is developed.
 If there are no further changes, the sample is ready
for production. Finally the product apparel is
launched at various retail stores, e-commerce
stores, fashion runways, and at exhibitions.
 Portfolio Presentation
 Presentation portfolios are packages of the whole of
design works. They give a full view of the process a
designer goes through.
 Brands want to see not only the finished designs but also
where the ideas come from.
 Presentation illustrations aim to attract buyers or clients
to preview the final collection being put on figures.
Presentation drawings should contain complete figures
wearing the garment in a suitable pose and feature the
most attractive design along with accessories. The
illustrations should be grouped with other sketches to
form a presentation portfolio.
 They are used at exhibitions or buyers’ meetings for
promotion and advertising purposes.
 CAD Software for design development
 Computer Aided Design (CAD) is the use of computer
technology for the process of design development /
collection development.
 Using CAD software, a fashion designer can create new
sketches, patterns, prints more quickly.
 Alterations and rectifications are quick as well as more
accurate, as it reduces errors.
 Wide range of colours ,brushes of different sizes are
available in CAD.
 Fabric swatches can be scanned and draped on the
sketches easily.
 CAD Software for design development
 Wide range of tools like- editing tools, copy & paste
tool, crop tool, zoom tool and tools to repeat and
alter the size of motifs are available.
 Designs can be stored and retrieved later, and can
be shared via internet to any part of world.
 Designs can be saved and completed in two or
more sittings.
 CAD Software for design development
 Some software examples:-
 Drawing Software like Corel DRAW, Illustrator, Freehand are
excellent for drawing shapes and lines to create production/flats
drawings and technical drawings for specification sheets
including fashion illustrations and presentation work
 Creative Suites like Adobe, Corel DRAW, Macromedia are used
in drawing, Page Layout, Web Design and Image editing.
 CAD Suites like Primavision (Lectra), Artworks (Gerber) are
designed to meet the specific needs of the textile and apparel
industry. Used primarily in fashion companies with long
production runs for textile and fashion design, grading, pattern
making, labelling, manufacturing, etc.