BA (hons) Fashion Art Direction in Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

BA (hons) Fashion Art Direction in Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

There is an increased need to visually communicate fashion-based ideas. This requires a creative who has a clear appreciation of and experience in developing fashion concepts, understanding and dealing with the associated critical pathways and the practical means by which to communicate. On this course, taught in the Manchester School of Art, you will be encouraged to critically evaluate and creatively respond to these conditions and define your own new role within fashion.

You will be interested in the way fashion is consumed (beyond wearing it) and the opportunities this presents for developing innovative visual practice-based work. Fashion is changing due to many external factors such as digital platforms and media, and issues around sustainability. There are also changes in the role fashion plays and how it has become increasingly an exciting area for inter-disciplinary exploration within design, culture and society. At the heart of this are the new ways that fashion is becoming explored, extended, designed and consumed.

Features and Benefits

• Opportunity to work individually and collectively within the worlds of fashion, graphics and illustration.
• The course is set within an art school environment, where risk-taking and challenging convention are encouraged.
• Opportunities for work experience and to undertake industry 'live' linked project work.
• The course sits alongside two other Manchester School of Art courses (Fashion and Graphic Design), which have excellent reputations for producing professional graduates who are employed for their creativity, originality, versatility.
• The opportunity to take part in Unit X, an innovative unit offered to students across Manchester School of Art that encourages interdisciplinary study and collaboration on an external-facing project.

Career prospects

Graduates of this course will develop skills and experiences to work within a whole range of exciting creative areas within fashion and in the design industry. They may go on to be freelance designers/stylists or work within established areas of the industry such as publishing houses. Roles such as art directors, designers, digital publishers, writers, fashion film-makers/artists, fashion assistants, self-published fashion authors, 'visionists', stylists, fashion curators, fashion brand designers, fashion creatives, fashion PR, trend observers/commentators.

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