A colleague put me onto the Fashion & Textile Museum after i mentioned a decidedly ‘never mind the gaps’ education in illustrator. It turns out that the F&TM is a great source of learning on this and many other design software subjects, I also like that the class sizes are kept small and cost effective allowing the learner to dip in and out at various times during the year without having to make a big cash/or time commitment.
I had a little mooch over their website and it’s a blooming goldmine, not just for those in the fashion industry but for anyone with an interest in design. The F&TM also hold courses on Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign which are the industry standard for most design work, and again, even if you are not a designer can come in pretty handy in a lot of office based jobs to have a working knowledge of some of these packages. The F&TM also hold lots of different events and workshops (some free) that cover a wide range of subjects like ‘learning to draw like a designer’ , ‘introduction to print’ and one that I’ve just missed but I hope they re-issue later in the year, the ‘make do & mend’ course which sounds like a great little 4 week starter course on general sewing, mending and patching skills – silly as it sounds but when you’re broke it really does pay dividends if you know how to take up your own suit trousers or mend the rips in your favourite cardi!
Happy learning!
