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The Alliance Fashion and Manufacturing Toolkit
has been created to help designers communicate their needs effectively to production units.Relationships between designers and manufacturers can be problematic for those who fail to understand the basic requirements. Even the most experienced of Production Managers find new challenges and problems with many of their orders. It is important therefore for designers to build up a good working relationship with their factories and to remember that factories are businesses that rely on smooth and constant production to create profits.
The knowledge compiled in this Toolkit has been gathered from industry professionals with many years of experience in dealing with garment production. It has been designed to start you off on the right foot – as you become more familiar with the materials, you can use them to develop your own processes that suit your needs and the needs of your factories.
Download the toolkit here
IP for fashion designers - from Own-it
Added on April 15, 2013 10:46
When it comes to the fashion industry there are a range of rights available to designers. Alice Stagg, from Wragge & Co (wragge.com/) solicitors goes through each of the these rights to protect fashion design, from unregistered and registered design rights to copyright, and provides illustrative case studies on the topic. Although there is some overlap between them which right you choose to rely on will ultimately be dependant upon your individual requirements, for instance copyright does not protect designs that are mass produced.
We Are Just The Same As Anyone Else - Northumbria University
Added on March 18, 2013 12:40
Friday 8th – Thursday 28th March 2013
Gallery North
Squires Building, Sandyford Road, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST
Weave Waves
Added on March 7, 2013 16:45
Weave Waves brings together sound artist Scanner and textile designer Ismini Samanidou. They are exploring sound, geography and mapping, and how this data relates to textile-weave structures and musical scores.
Scanner and Samanidou have been inspired by the visual and technical similarities between the digital software they both use, the physicality of code and how this in turn relates to mechanisms for mapping and recording the sounds of a city.
Design Event MART Open Call for Submissions
Added on December 12, 2012 13:45
Are you a product designer with an innovative new product you would like to see exhibited next October? The Design Event MART is a curated selling exhibition presenting the best in contemporary design from designers living and working in the North of England (North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humber) and working across a range of design including furniture, surface, textile, lighting, product, jewellery and fashion accessory designers and makers.
Fashion and copyright
Added on October 11, 2012 09:49
Fashion and copyright
By Iona Harding, Associate Solicitor at Baker & McKenzie LLP
INSPIRING INTERIOR PRODUCTS
Added on September 17, 2012 11:09
The London Design Festival is nearly upon us!
Make it Pay!
Added on June 14, 2012 09:14
Hello designer, designer maker, crafter, freelancer, illustrator! You are invited to the most creative, inspiring & fun event about selling for designers & makers this year!
Resources for textile and fashion people...
Added on October 20, 2011 10:28
WEAVE is led by Jane Shaw of Blue Sky Think / Culture Works with initial funding from the RSA Catalyst Fund and emerges from collective working experiences pointing to a structural gap in the organisation of the design, manufacture and marketing of textile goods and innovations in the region. Read about our project and download the latest resource materials on this theme.
Call for designer-makers, Fashion and Textile Museum
Added on April 17, 2012 09:55
The shop@FTM is committed to supporting young design talent and stocks a great range of products from some of the best up and coming designers you will find anywhere in the UK. The shop is currently looking for emerging designer-makers and brands to be stocked in store during our summer exhibition POP! CULTURE AND FASHION 1955-1976 opening 6 July 2012 to 27 October 2012