Creating and Managing Your Professional Digital Footprint

This workshop helps members create and manage a professional digital footprint. Topics covered include: Discuss the importance of creating and maintaining an online presence; Evaluate different tools/concepts to manage your digital footprint; Create your own digital footprint plan

Updating an introductory class on a Computer Aided Design course as this software pertains to fashion

Project Scope: Updating an introductory class on a Computer Aided Design course as this software pertains to fashion Project Scope: To identify OER materials for FTT faculty to use in their courses and locate materials specifically for use in the introduction to Fashion technology class. Use these resources to update a beginning fashion class in computer technology. Project goals: Source Open Educational Resources for the faculty to use in their classes. Which allows students to work on independently – Microsoft Word, Excel and PPT. Also Adobe CS. Investigate Lynda.com - https://rite.buffalostate.edu/nypl-benefits.html Using the objectives of the course FTT 208, implement one new lesson on the use of Adobe CS, specific to fashion, which will be delivered in fall 2017. Differentiate consumer target markets including cultural aspects and how each market influences the design process and merchandising strategies. Demonstrate an introductory understanding and hands on experience with how the elements and principles of design can affect the aesthetic and marketability of an end product. Demonstrate introductory raster digital skills via standard off the shelf software to create and illustrate custom fabric patterns

Modernizing Boro: Upcycling apparel with a past

The current fashion industry promotes quick changeovers of garments with fast deliveries at low prices creating an over abundance of clothing which is considered disposable by many consumers. In response to this fast fashion environment, I looked at the practice of extending the life of a garment, specifically Japanese boro. Boro is the act of mending and patching a garment, Sashiko is type of stitching used. While traditional Sashiko has started to regain its popularity and many of the traditional stitches has been modernized. Design, Housing and Merchandisin

Leadership in Academia Workshop Summary

This workshop, led by Catherine A. Allen (co-founder of Reboot Partners, LLC and Chairman and CEO, The Santa Fe Group), offered participants the chance to create their own vision of what they want in their life and to develop a strategic plan on accomplishing their goals

Managing Your Academic Career

The session started with each of the panelists talking a bit about their background and how they became department chairs then the floor was opened for questions so that the interests of the group drove the session. The participants included graduate students, an adjunct and both full time tenured and tenure track professionals

Incorporating Service Learning in the Fashion Curriculum

Service learning is an instructional strategy that utilizes a form of experiential learning and is encouraged on our campus. Faculty, along with students, identify needs in the community and, within the framework of their class objectives, address these problems or issues while simultaneously advancing students’ knowledge and skill in their field. In this way, students learn by actively participating in a community project and actively apply course concepts in a real life manner

Transformational creases: Collaborative teaching project

Transformational Creases was a Cotton Inc. sponsored collaborative project. The goal of this advanced digital textile design teaching project was to develop textile prints for 100% cotton fabric which are designed specifically to either hide the naturally occurring wrinkles or work with the fabric wrinkling. The outcome incorporated integrated multiple surface design techniques which embrace the natural wrinkle/creasing qualities of cotton fabric

Current adoption and future use of RFID tags

The adoption of technology depends on the perceived value of the technology to the business. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, a contactless and short distance wireless communication, has been adopted across a spectrum of retailers and retail merchandise, particularly since 2003 when Wal-Mart instituted requirements to their top 100 suppliers to start using this technology. Retail merchandisers from the first introduction of item level RFID and supply chain management requirements to vendors and within stores at Wal-Mart have seen the benefits and challenges of adding RFID technology. Modern RFID sensors, specifically for retail, are made with a high memory capacity that is superior to a typical barcode. Store level RFID has improved with newer label readers for stacks of garments, improvements to identify inventory outages and mapping the stores to improve store merchandise placement. Design, Housing and Merchandisin

Strategic Illusions: Collaborative teaching project

Strategic Illusions is a Cotton Inc. sponsored collaborative teaching project that included two classes – one is a computer aided design class and the second an advanced garment assembly class. The goal of the advanced engineered garment design teaching project was to develop engineered garment designs for 100% cotton fabric which were designed specifically to incorporate strategically placed textile designs to camouflage the naturally occurring wrinkles on the garment. The outcome incorporated integrated multiple surface design techniques and engineered garment design placement which embrace and/or camouflage the natural wrinkling qualities of cotton fabric

Interconnect: A double collaboration

Departments of Biology, Art & Design and Fashion collaborated to create a line of garments with surface design prints inspired by nature. Freshmen art students were given access to a herbarium to view over 16,000 specimens and used this as inspiration to develop distinct motifs of symmetrical and asymmetrical designs. The top 13 images were chosen and digitally scanned. The scanned designs were given to surface design students in the Fashion department to develop industry ready repeat tiles and engineered yardage. Minimal restrictions on manipulation of these designs was imposed. Faculty contracted a professional fabric printing surface to create yardage. Students in an apparel construction class assembled the garments out of the custom printed yardage. The final product was a line of garments inspired by nature. Future collaborations are under discussion