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This module introduces you to creative processes from initial research through to idea development stages, using art and design foundation skills at introductory levels. You’ll learn how to begin a project by first understanding and decoding a creative brief, then applying research skills to source suitable information and inspiration to generate informed ideas. You’ll develop basic research methods for fashion, costume and textile design including how to search for reference images, how to analyse and interpret contemporary visuals, and how to share this information.

You’ll learn how to design and produce a garment from concept to final realisation and will be introduced to basic pattern cutting and garment construction. Following initial visual research, you will explore mark-making, image-making and colour theory, to inspire ideas for design development. Design development will include initial paper-based experimentation, as well as textile sampling. Resolved outcomes will be applicable for use in Fashion, Costume and Textile Design.

This module enables you to begin developing the Bucks Graduate Attributes associated with leadership and self-This is an interdisciplinary module, that is shared across all Art & Design courses. In art and design, information gathering, evaluation and selection underpin understanding, ideas, and personal development. In this module you’ll research contemporary and historical cultural contexts in the field of art and design, so that they can begin to relate their own emerging practice to others' work.

This module provides you with a practical understanding of creative portfolio design and development methods, resulting in the production of a professional portfolio relevant to foundation year sector standards. It will encourage independent learning to discover individual and personal identities through portfolio creation specific to the learner’s chosen discipline.

This module will continue to extend your application of visual research methodologies, alongside a series of practical workshops with the aim of enabling them to produce innovative and original ideas, which will form the basis of their design project. Through analysis and reflection of their experiences in each of the workshops you’ll extend your cultural awareness of their design.

This module will allow you to study a range of traditional and contemporary processes in textile design, enabling you to create innovative textiles for characters within a costume narrative. Independent experimentation will consider the historic or social influences on the themes of the print, texture of fabrics. Widening awareness and knowledge of ethical and sustainable materials will be integrated into the module content.

On this module you’ll be presented with key global debates which impact our lives and could influence your creative practice and positions as creatives in ever-changing professional industries. Through research and critical reflection, you’ll explore these issues which may be related to sustainability, politics and other ecological or socio- economic factors, and respond to them creatively using your chosen discipline-specific practice.

The Independent Project module provides you with an opportunity to develop a creativity that establishes your own practice within a theoretical framework. It will expand your knowledge of a range of concepts, values and debates that inform and influence your creative practice, developing innovative approaches to their research and development of design and construction proposals.

The Research Strategies module is designed to help you prepare and plan for your practice-based report in Level 6. Through a series of thematic lectures and seminars, the module provides a framework for you to understand and explore cultural knowledge, concepts in fashion, textiles, costume design, the broader field of art and design and popular culture, as developed from the theory module in Level 4.

The module aims to equip you with current knowledge on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion relevant to the creative industries. You’ll develop a sense of citizenship to help position yourself confidently and actively in your future professional roles - while also understanding the importance of identity, heritage and culture in relation to your practice. You’ll use your learnt skills to create a space for using diverse textual and visual language enabling you to build resilience and confidently present ideas in an academic and creative context.

This module will explore this business side of advertising. You’ll be asked to create a sustainable business based on a creative idea that you believe would be successful in today’s socially responsible and ecologically aware marketplace.

This module aims to allow you to practise the wide range of relevant skills necessary to take this new brand, from a business plan to the advertising campaign, resulting in a presentation showing your entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen.