• Situated within the internationally recognized School of Fashion at UCA, the MA Printed Textiles for Fashion and Interiors offers a practice-based, design-led experience, which develops a creative vision and redefines their professional practice.
  • From day one student will be part of the inspirational fashion community with its exciting creative postgraduate research culture. Students will be encouraged to push boundaries and challenge themselves both intellectually and creatively that will provide students with a stimulating and supportive environment in which to do it.
  • Students will have the freedom to explore and combine traditional, handcrafted design and production techniques with the latest innovations in digital technology while researching ever-evolving materials and technologies.
  • Print design for fashion includes textiles collections for fashion, samples, experimental textile pieces, garment prototypes, design concepts or range plans, and fashion-related products or accessories.
  • Print design for textile art and interiors includes fashion-led interior concepts, one-off textiles, installation or site-specific works, product prototypes, floor, and wall coverings as well as exterior print applications.
  • This unique course offers students an exciting opportunity to make their creative vision a reality, master their skills, and develop new research methods - exploring innovative, relevant, and sustainable solutions for fashion and textiles. Practice-based and theoretical research are integrated throughout the course, and this will help students to develop an individual design philosophy and research methodology, along with the visual, creative, and practical skills to enter the industry at a higher level.
  • A vibrant creative studio culture with their own individual workspace is designed to support the development of their research and practice, along with a program of tutorials, lectures, seminars, and critiques.
  • As part of this course, students will be involved in professional practice, such as a live industry project brief, competition work, industry sponsorship of industry engagement activities, all of which set the course apart from other Level 7 fashion programs.
  • The course also offers a unique program of industry guest lecturers including some of the UK’s foremost print for fashion designers and colour consultants whose clients include Dior, Vuitton Homme, Margiela, Topshop, Agi and Sam, Giles Deacon, and The Unseen.
  • University also invites experts from research fields including sustainable fashion design and production and mentoring from specialists involved in maker development.
  • Students have unprecedented access to all these specialists and enjoy one-to-one tutorials with them at regular intervals throughout the course.