Fashion Design

These days, ‘Creative and Commercial Arts’ is one of most sought-after career fields. There are many students who have creative abilities and talent. All they have to do is sharpen the inbuilt aptitude, by giving themselves a formal triaging, which is available through fine arts at the certificate, diploma and degree level by numerous institutions.

 

Options in Commercial Fine Arts courses range from sculpture, applied arts, painting, craft, graphic interior design and painting. One should always get a professional training as it helps you to acquire the technical skills to survive in an industry where competition is never ending. One can get training at diploma and degree level. For getting the admission in Bachelors Degree course in Fine Arts (BFA), the minimum education required is Higher Secondary Examination or 10+ 2. Consequently, the eligibility for the Post Graduation Degree course in Commercial Fine Arts is a graduate degree in Fine Arts.

 

Some famous colleges in India that offer these courses are Symbiosis Institute of Design, Jamia Milia Islamia, Loyola College, Amity University, University of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati University, International Institute of Fine Arts, Apeejay College of Fine Arts, University of Delhi.

 

Those who have acquired professional training can work in the respective fields as a freelancer. This allows variety and liberty in their projects. Illustrators, cartoonists, and designers are in a great demand in publishing industry and newspaper houses. Those who have expertise in applied art have ample opportunities in advertising agencies as graphic artists, designers, visualisers, and creative directors. Professional artists have unlimited opportunities in front of them ranging from working in art studios, advertising companies, fashion houses etc. There are many more related career options like teaching, direction, photography, television, clothing and fashion, art directors for magazines, on-line services, software companies, manufacturers, promotion and product design.

 

In electronic media, one can design non verbal presentations for television programmes involving trade figure analysis, election results, etc. Many commercial artists also design stamps and letter heads for government organizations and private firms. Software firms in India hire experts in commercial fine arts as “Graphic equalizers”.

 

One can also explore career options in abroad as there too you can find good career opportunities. There is an option to organize exhibitions and auctions for creative work in India and abroad also. One can also arrange workshops on fine arts and other related fields for better career prospects. Thus, we can say that there are unlimited options for job opportunities for the trained and professional artist in the field of fine arts, creative arts and commercial arts. After the completion of the course, one can choose his/her desired field and can work with either in a good company or for his/her own. This field can give you name and fame for the piece of work.

Manisha Verma writes on behalf of Shiksha.com. Shiksha.com is an education portal that connects education seeker with education provider. Shiksha has wide information over, Arts colleges, Courses & other colleges in India. Its education forums enable its users to seek opinion of students, alumni and faculty of colleges and schools through College Groups & School Groups.

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Where can a degree in applied arts and design take you? Graduates working in the field can be found in the world’s top fashion houses, Fortune 500 companies, respected architectural firms, and more.

Pursuing a degree in applied arts and design can be a smart way to combine your artistic ability with training for a potentially lucrative career. While no educational program can guarantee such a career, hiring managers typically prefer or require education when reviewing potential applicants.

Training Beyond Fine Arts
Unlike training strictly in fine arts, applied arts and design courses can provide students with a mix of artistic and technical knowledge that can be used in today’s competitive design careers. Graduates may start their own businesses, work on their own as freelancers, or join established companies. The flexibility of an applied arts and design degree draws many to the industry, and you traditionally need a strong portfolio to stand out among the crowd.

Popular Applied Arts and Design Careers
Entering an applied arts and design education means specializing in the field of your choice. Check out some of the most popular fields for applied arts and design majors, with 2007 salary information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Fashion Designers: These talented artists create the styles we wear every day. About a quarter of all fashion designers are self-employed. An education can give you essential knowledge of textiles, ornamentation, fashion trends, and more.
• Mean Annual Salary: $71,170
• Recommended Degree: Bachelor’s degrees are popular in the industry. Those hoping to open their own fashion line may combine a design degree with business, merchandising, or marketing training.

Graphic Designers: From Fortune 500 companies to local shops, businesses usually trust trained graphic designers to create a fresh, interesting look. About a quarter are self employed, and may work on multiple projects at once, building experience and professional contacts. Career training typically combines artistic basics with popular graphic design computer programs.
• Mean Annual Salary: $45,340
• Recommended Degree: The bachelor’s degree is the traditional educational route, though certificate and diploma programs offer specialized coursework you may prefer.

Interior Designers: Multimillion-dollar homes, public spaces like libraries and hospitals, and private industry spaces benefit from the work of interior designers. Over a quarter of all interior designers are self-employed, and many work for specialized design services. Education takes a technical turn, often including computer-aided design.
• Mean Annual Salary: $50,190
• Recommended Degree: A bachelor’s degree is recommended for entry-level positions. Some states license interior designers, a process involving education, experience, and passing a licensing exam.

Benefits of a College Education
The design world can be highly competitive, and hiring managers often prefer or require formal education in the form of a college degree or certificate. Beyond the benefits of that piece of paper, training in applied arts and design means getting a chance to explore different areas of design, learning your own strengths and weaknesses as you build your creative portfolio.

Kelli Smith is the senior editor for www.Edu411.org. Edu411.org lists colleges and career institutes that offer training and programs in applied arts. Schools listed offer free information packages or academic consultation.

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‘Creative and Commercial Arts’ is an upcoming and much in demand field today. Those with creative aptitude and good art skills have no lack of job opportunities with a rise in the media, advertising and publishing sectors. To hone the inherent skills, one can avail the formal training which is available for fine arts at the certificate, diploma and degree level at a number of institutions. The course duration could vary from 1-5 years. Those who want to make a career out of it can pursue courses at institutes across India and abroad. To become a successful commercial artist, one must have a creative bent of mind and an eye for detail. Apart from this, one needs perseverance and an indomitable will power to pursue this field of fine arts as a profession.

 

Commercial fine arts could refer to painting, sculpting, applied art, graphic interior design, ceramic design, mural design, metal craft, pottery design and painting. It is important to get training as a course helps one nurture and align the creative energy and gives the technical edge and finesse required to survive in an industry where competition is ever increasing. There is training available at both degree and diploma level. For doing a Bachelors Degree course in Fine Arts (BFA), one must have successfully cleared the Higher Secondary Examinations or 10+ 2. Subsequently, for acquiring a Post Graduation Degree in Commercial Fine Arts, one must be a graduate in Fine Arts.

 

There are many premier institutes in India where Commercial Fine Arts is taught as a subject of study. These include Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art (Mumbai), Faculty of Fine Arts (Baroda), Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan, Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi) and College of Art (New Delhi).

 

Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art is based in Mumbai. It is a state government college that has four departments which offer training for various types of Degree and Diploma courses. The Department Of Painting offers BFA (Painting) 4 years, Post Degree MFA(Painting ) 2 years, MFA (Painting) (by papers) in Portraiture, MFA (Painting) in Graphic Art, MFA (Painting) in Creative Painting. The Department Of Sculpture And Modelling offers BFA (Sculpture) 4 years and Diploma Sculpture and Modelling 4 years. The Department Of Arts And Crafts offers BFA (Craft- Metal Work) 4 years, BFA (Craft – Textile Design) 4 years, BFA (Craft- Interior Decoration) 4 years and BFA (Craft – Ceramics) 4 years. The Department Of Art offers Teacher Training Art Teacher’s Diploma ( A.T.D.) 2 years, Diploma in Art Education (Dip. A. ED.) 1 year and Art Master Certificate Course (part-time) 1 year.

 

Symbiosis Institute of Design based in Pune offers the following degree programs:  Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Communication Design, Bachelor of Design (B. Des ) in Product Design, Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Fashion Communication and Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Fashion Design. The institute tries to offer an optimum mix of traditional skills, new media skills and soft skills.

 

Other than these, Jamia Milia Islamia, Loyola College, Amity University, University of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati University, International Institute of Fine Arts, Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Aligrah Muslim University, University of Jammu, Animation and Fine Arts Academy, Anna University and the University of Delhi offer courses on fine arts.

Those who have acquired a degree or diploma in fine arts, commercial arts or creative arts can work as freelancers. This allows for variety and free hand in their projects. There is demand for specialists in drawing in the publishing industry and newspaper houses as illustrators, cartoonists, and designers. Those who are good at applied art have unlimited opportunities in advertising agencies as graphic artists, designers, visualisers, and creative directors. Trained artists have a wide arena of options in front of them, ranging from working in art studios, advertising companies, fashion houses etc. Other related careers are teaching, direction, photography, television, clothing and fashion, as art directors for magazines, on-line services, software companies, manufacturers, promotion and product design.

In the television and media field, one could design the non verbal presentations for television programmes involving trade figure analysis, election results, etc. A commercial artist can also design stamps and letter heads for government organizations. Software firms in India require experts in commercial fine arts as ‘Graphic Equalisers’.

 

Apart from working in India, one can also explore career options abroad. One can organize exhibitions and auction his creations abroad. Then, there is an option to conduct various workshops on fine arts and its related fields. Other related option is to be art critic and write reviews for various art magazines which are quite popular abroad. Thus, there is no dearth of job options for skilled and trained artists in creative arts, fine arts and commercial arts. After a course from a good institute, one can land a job with either a good company or work on his/her own and earn name, fame and wealth. This field can give one high visibility and recognition with one good piece of art.

 

Geetika Jain writes on behalf of Shiksha.com. Shiksha.com is an education portal that connects education seeker with education provider. Shiksha.com has wide information over Fine Arts and Creative arts courses, its education forums enable its users to seek opinion of students, alumni and faculty of colleges and schools through College Groups and School Groups

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Fashion design games are great fun. They are also an entrepreneurial experience. By dreaming up a concept for an eBoutique, and following it through to fruition, you will learn about doing business and have fun at the same time.

Websites like GirlSense enable you to create all the elements of an eBoutique: from the pattern you choose for the wallpaper, right down to the type of flooring. Naturally the clothing line will also be the fruit of your own imagination. When you go about creating your fashion eBoutique, you need to think about how the various elements of your fashion design game fit together so that you project one concept.

Once you come up with a cool fashion design games concept, you probably will want to start with the wallpaper. That’s because it is the first thing that players of online fashion games will see. It’s like the base upon which everything else is built. Think of different real fashion stores you have visited. A beach or surf clothing shop has different wallpaper compared with a store selling smart evening wear. Try and think what wallpaper will look the best with the styles that you are going to create for your online fashion games store. Wallpaper with a palm tree pattern will complement a beach themed eBoutique, and a gentler wallpaper pattern will suit an eBoutique focusing on dresses.

Really go for it! You might have some real creative ideas for online fashion games, but feel that other girls won’t like them, and so instead settle on a less creative backup option. My advice to you: go for it! Be as creative as you like, because then you will be true to yourself. That’s the great thing about fashion designing games. It’s all about the creativity. And you’ll be surprised. There will always be someone out there who will be interested in your eBoutique. And who knows, maybe fashion scouts will be looking at your eBoutique, and will want to use your idea to create a real fashion brand! Wouldn’t that be exciting?!

Don’t forget to check out the other eBoutiques at GirlSense for inspiration. Celebrity online fashion games will give you ideas and show you how to create a professional looking eBoutique. Also look at the fashion design games created by girls just like you. This will help you to get fresh ideas for your eBoutique, as well as to learn what other girls like.

JohnM is a writer for Compucall. For more information about online fashion games, visit GirlSense.com.

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A fashion designer has to be inspirational in creating designs fitting to various periods, revamp colours fitting to a particular season.Each season has its own theme respective to style,colour,fabric selections ,a designer has to prudently decide all these requirments and translate accordingly.Creating different styles can be done using fashion softwares like designerfashion.biz digitalfashiondesignerpro.com.

 

Information/research on trend can be collected by studying past history of costumes,study of designers ,reading runway reports through newsletters,generating consumer survey.Colour trends can be predicted using PANTONE ,Priemere Vision ,CBI Fashion forecast reports.Research report ,various calendar of events on trend analysis can be found from web sites as apparelsearch.com , infomat.com , philau.edu , library.kent.edu , www2.lib.udel.edu apart from this one can read various blogs/runways freearticles.

 

Cultural transformation plays a vital role in deciding trend art,music,movies gives clues also newspaper/magazine coloumns directs the trend.Magazines like Agenda ,Fashion Insider ,Fashion Online ,Fashionoffice , Vogue , Elle , Glamour ,Harper & Bazzar , JC Report ,Trendzine similarly newspapers like New york Times ,Telegraph ,International  Herald,Washington Post ,Vancouver Sun ,Newyorker .

 

TV shows in CNN.COM/BBC host shows on fashion pursuing catalogues/web sites of designers/retailers can lead to creative ideas.Retailers catalogue of Ralph Lauren,H&M ,Zara are note worthy.Participating in conferences,designers meet ,travelling ,inqusitive for collecting various fabrics recording all the information is important.

 

A few more web sites on Fashion,Style ,Runways are couturefashionweek.com , edwingdangelo.com , romanitza.ro , soucha-hc.com.With all the clues deciding the right trend using personal intution/observation skills will make a successful designer.

 

Continuous learning in various aspects of innovation happening at technology makes a designer competetive.Various professional organizations provides tools to keep latest in technology as fibres,weaves,finishing,colouration,management,environment.

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