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Townsend, K. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2212-2511,
2003.
Transforming shape: a simultaneous approach to the body, cloth and print for garment and textile design (synthesising CAD with manual methods).
PhD, Nottingham Trent University.
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Abstract
Printed textile and garment design are generally taught and practised as separate disciplines. Integrated CAD software enables textile and clothing designers to envisage printed garments by assimilating graphic imagery with 2D garment shapes, and 3D visualisations. Digital printing can be enlisted to transpose print-filled garment shapes directly onto cloth. This research challenges existing 2D practice by synthesising manual and CAD technologies, to explore the integration of print design and garment shape from a simultaneous, 3D perspective.
This research has identified three fundamental archetypes of printed garment styles from Twentieth Century fashion: 'sculptural', 'architectural' and 'crossover'. The contrasting spatial characteristics and surface patterning inherent in these models provided tlýe theoretical and practical framework for the research. Design approaches such as'textile-led', 'garment-led'and 'the garment as canvas' highlighted the originality of the simultaneous design method, which embraces all of these concepts.
This research recognises the body form as a positive influence within the printed textile and printed garment designing process, whereby modelled fabric shapes can be enlisted to determine mark making. The aim of the practice, to create printed garment designs from a 3D perspective, was facilitated by an original method of image capture, resulting in blueprinted toiles, or cyanoforms, that formed the basis of engineer-printed garments and textiles. Integrated CAD software provided the interface between manual modelling, design development and realisation, where draping software was employed to digitally craft 3D textiles. The practical and aesthetic characteristics of digital printing were tested through the printing of photographic-style, integrated garment prototypes.
The design outcomes demonstrate that a simultaneous approach to the body, cloth and print can result in innovative textile vocabulary, that'plays a proactive role within the design equation, through its aesthetic integration with garment and form. The integration of print directly with the garment contour can result in a 3D orientated approach to printed garment design that is empathetic with the natural body shape.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Creators: | Townsend, K. |
| Publisher: | Nottingham Trent University |
| Place of Publication: | Nottingham |
| Date: | July 2003 |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Art and Design |
| Record created by: | EPrints Services |
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:05 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2020 14:56 |
| URI: | http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7552 |
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