Here are 25 ideas for designers who want to make apparel.
1. Design an accessory that easily attaches to an existing piece of clothing or can be sewn onto a garment.
2. Design a scarf/shawl that is unique or highly fashionable and appeals to a wide range of people, including those with different tastes in fashion.
3. Design a purse that is both functional and fashionable.
4. Create a pattern that can be used by others to sew clothing or other pieces of fabric together.
5. Design a new type of wearable technology, such as glasses, jewelry, bracelets, hats, belts, etc.
6. Create art in the form of wearable accessories or garments that convey meaning through their shape, color and texture (e.g., a piece that represents freedom).
7. Design something from recycled materials that is both functional and fashionable (e.g., recycled plastic bags can be used as shoes).
8. Use unconventional materials in your design such as metal mesh netting or fishing nets for clothing/fabric (e.g., jacket, pants).
9. Develop an app for mobile devices (or create any other kind of software) that helps with pattern making or sewing techniques when creating apparel.*
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Apparel design is not just about creativity and aesthetics. It’s also about structure and form, engineering and ergonomics. Even the most beautiful garment will be ill-fitting, uncomfortable, or impractical if you don’t consider these aspects from the very beginning.
Here are 25 ideas to inspire your next clothing project:
To design is to solve problems. But not just any problem will do; you want the right problem. And you want to solve it the right way. There are many different kinds of problems, and many different ways of solving them.
The problem with new designers is that they often struggle with the wrong kind of problem, and struggle doing it the wrong way. This leaves them exhausted, discouraged and broke. They take on too much work for too little money, working even when they don’t feel like it, losing their love of design along the way.
The good news is that once you know the right kind of problems to take on, and have a sense for how to solve them, you can make a living from design without a big business overhead. You can be your own boss without being self-employed.
Apparel is the collective term for clothing, fashion and accessories. Apparel is a major part of the fashion industry, which in turn is part of the retail industry. Fashion designers create original garments for consumers, from which manufacturers create the finished products that are then sold to consumers for a profit. A garment that is made in large quantities is called a mass-produced item or simply mass-produced clothing; these are often cheaper, but more likely to be seen as out of date more quickly than items made by smaller manufacturers.
Tailoring is a major part of apparel manufacturing. Apparel may be made by hand (handmade) or on a machine (machine-made). Cotton, linen, silk and wool are fabrics commonly used. Clothing can be sold at retail sale or wholesale to other retailers. In the case of an apparel maker’s or manufacturer’s own label, both are most common; where they exist such labels are most often found on the final product’s tag attached by the manufacturer.[1]
Fashion design studios make new garments based on seasonal trends and consumer demands, while costumers make custom garments.[2] Clothing construction includes design, cutting and grading (adjusting size), assembly (fastening together parts), finishing (adding details like pockets and fast
In a previous article, we discussed the concept of adding value to your work by applying your skill set to an array of products or services. In this article, we’re going to further explore the idea of applied art by looking at ways you can expand your creative portfolio by working with a variety of mediums and markets. By staying open-minded and working hard, you can really stretch your design skills and boost your creative potential.
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Applied art has always been a matter of the artist applying themselves. In almost every era, artists have had to jump through hoops to make a living, and in many eras they’ve had to jump through some very big hoops indeed.
Fragments of their work survive; it is easy to forget what didn’t survive. Today, with art schools and galleries, there are more hoops than ever. But it’s also easier than ever for artists to jump through those hoops and get paid for it.
Toxic memes still exist, but there is no shortage of ways for an artist to make a living today. In fact, I think that anyone who is not an artist is missing out on one of the easiest ways to make a living these days: just be an artist.
Applied art, or applied art is a part of the fine arts whose purpose is to create an object that has practical use, and can be used for a specific function. This is in contrast to fine art, which exists mainly for the sake of being art. Applied art forms include design and decoration, along with advertising and architecture.
In his book “Art as Applied to Life,” author Louis Sullivan coined the phrase “art-industry” as a way of separating entertainment and fine art on one side, and commercial art on the other. He meant it as an analogy to the newer term “industry” – but he also meant it in a literal way. He argued that artists should not be idle and isolated from everyday life and commerce; they should recognize that they are working in a commercial industry like any other business, and they should only make art that is original.
