FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN

Department of Textile and Fashion Design

FB 498 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name
Graduation Project*
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
FB 498
Spring
2
6
5
13

Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Required
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course -
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives The objective is to create a powerful fashion retail brand, using conceptual and practical skills to represent fashion and fashion related items in a commercial manner and mastering the visual side of fashion retail design, fashion visual merchandising and fashion retail marketing.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • will be able to analyze a brand´s architecture
  • will be able to describe target groups (trend-modern-classic-exclusive)
  • will be able to classify visual marketing tools (typo, colour, graphics)
  • will be able to discuss the role and the importance of marketing communication in the fashion world
  • will be able to identify retail design (retail architecture, store facades, fix-tures and merchandise carriers)
  • will be able to analyze visual merchandising in detail (product amount, product placement and product display)
Course Description This course focuses on the conceptual and practical skills to represent fashion and fashion related items in a commercial manner facing the visual side of fashion retail design, fashion visual merchandising and fashion retail marketing.

 



Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
Supportive Courses
Media and Management Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Introduction and Course Orientation
2 Megatrends affecting the Fashion Industry Brand Analysis with focus on detectable improvements (2008) Olins, W. “The Brand Handbook” Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, UK 13-23
3 Work on Presentation (New Brand Orientation/ New Target Customer) Work on Presentation (New Brand Orientation/ New Product Style and Quality) (2008) Olins, W. “The Brand Handbook” Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, UK 24-55
4 Campaign Design Idea (Key Visual and Claim) Campaign Design Idea (Key Visual and Claim) (2008) Olins, W. “The Brand Handbook” Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, UK 56-100
5 Development: Campaign Design 1 Development: Campaign Design 2 (2006) Twemlow, A. “Grafik Tasarım Ne İçindir?” Yem Yayın, RotoVision Sa, Istanbul
6 Introduction to Visual Merchandising Brand Analysis with focus on Visual Merchandising (2008) "This is Visual Merchandising", Instituto Monsa de Ediciones
7 Midterm Presentations
8 Brand Development (Logo Design and CI) Brand Development (Print and Web Design WIX) (2008) "This is Visual Merchandising", Instituto Monsa de Ediciones
9 Brand Development (Target Group and Market Segment) Brand Development (Product Range) (2008) "This is Visual Merchandising", Instituto Monsa de Ediciones
10 Brand Development (Marketing Strategies and Campaign Design) Midterm 2 Jury (2008) Morgan, T. "Visual Merchandising: Windows and In Store Displays for Retail", Laurence King Publishers, UK
11 Brand Development (VM and Window Display Concept) Brand Development (VM and Window Display Concept) (2008) Morgan, T. "Visual Merchandising: Windows and In Store Displays for Retail", Laurence King Publishers, UK
12 Brand Development (VM and Window Display Concept) Prototype Window Display Implementation (2008) Morgan, T. "Visual Merchandising: Windows and In Store Displays for Retail", Laurence King Publishers, UK
13 Review of the Graduation Project
14 FINAL Project Presentations and Jury
15 Semester Review
16 Semester Review

 

Course Notes/Textbooks

(2008) Olins, W. “The Brand Handbook” Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, UK ISBN:9780500514085

Creative Fashion Presentations by Polly Guerin (2009), 2nd Ed ISBN: 1-56367-250-2

(2008) Morgan, T. "Visual Merchandising: Windows and In Store Displays for Retail", Laurence King Publishers, UK ISBN: 9781780676876

Tim Jackson, David Shaw (auth.) - Mastering_ Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management-Macmillan Education UK (2001) ISBN 978-0-333-80165-9

Virginia Grose - Fashion Merchandising-AVA Academia (2011) ISBN 978-2-940411-34-4

Fashion Marketing, Tony Hines, Margaret Bruce,(2007), ISBN–13: 978-0-7506-6897-2

Suggested Readings/Materials

Konuklar : Ürün yönetiminde güncel konuları tartışmak üzere firmalardan uzmanlar davet edilir. Dergiler: "VOGUE", "HARPER`S BAZAAR", "ELLE", "VISUAL MERCHANDISING AND STORE DESIGN" Web siteleri: "textilwirtschaft.de", "WGSN.com", VOGUE.com, retaildesignblog.com

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
20
Presentation / Jury
1
50
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
1
20
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
4
100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
2
32
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
16
6
96
Study Hours Out of Class
12
10
120
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
0
Portfolio
0
Homework / Assignments
1
32
32
Presentation / Jury
1
70
70
Project
0
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
1
30
30
Final Exam
0
    Total
380

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

To be able to develop and design a collection independently.

2

To be able to do maintain a design research individually or as a team.

3

To be able to develop entrepreneurship- and managerial skills for a future professional practice.

X
4

To be able to understand, interpret and apply theoretical knowledge in fashion and textile design.

X
5

To be able to analyze and integrate the particular local and regional needs and of their profession.

X
6

To be able to obtain a multidisciplinary point of view, follow and analyze the new issues, changes and trends in contemporary design and art in such a way that they can be integrated into design practice.

X
7

To be able to apply industrial requirements, knowledge of material & usage and know-how knowledge in the creation of high quality fashion products.

X
8

To be able to use digital information and communication technologies at a level that is adequate to the discipline of fashion and textile design.

X
9

To be able to develop an ongoing analytical and professional approach to academic and design research.

X
10

To be able to recognize the need and importance of a personal lifelong learning attitude towards their chosen area of interest.

X
11

To be able to collect data in the areas of fashion and textile design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).

12

To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently.

13

To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 


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