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Set projects on industrial glass furnaces in Nigeria, furnaces for container glass, both regenerative and recuperative. Day tank furnaces. sheet glass furnaces; Auxiliary furnaces burners machine parts and tools. Forming machines and moulds.

The engages in Rudimentary technical drawing skills and hones practice in computer software introduced in FAA 231 and 232. Basic knowledge and applications of software for 2-D design and modelling will be the focus. Students are encouraged to explore the digital platform’s inherent potential to produce design sketches and diagrams for execution in metals and jewellery. Such sketches will be transferred to 3-Dimensional digital modelling skills and 3D animation techniques; introductory learning about contemporary 3-D design modelling and animation will also be engaged.

Technical Textiles – Introduction, definition, classification, applications & end uses. Raw materials within technical textiles. Fabric structures for technical end uses. Performance textiles (survival, sports, recreation, fire resistant, water repellent, textiles), material durability. Industrial textiles - Introduction, General properties and end uses. Zero waste in fashion. Recycled fibres and fabrics. Fibres from alternate sources and biomass of crab and shrimp shells. New applications of silk, Fibres produced by bacteria, new functions for cellulose. Eco textile accessories.

s Geo textiles –Introduction, General properties and end uses. Medical textiles – Introduction, General properties and end uses. Smart textiles - Introduction, general properties and end uses. The complexity of defence and military wear. Textile composites. Textile products lifecycle. Textile waste and waste treatment. Environmental impact of textile production.

This course shall review a survey of basic terminologies, techniques, characteristics and processes as relevant to the graphic production as introduced in FAA 233.2, namely, the letterpress, the offset lithographic press, the gravure press, the process camera, and scanners for multiple colour print reproduction, and the digital desktop publishing interface as an independent publishing device vis-à-vis other contemporary product development. It shall, in addition, seek to develop basic skills in typography by exploring possibilities in hand lettering leading to digital type constructions. Basic print finishing techniques, ink, and paper specifications shall also be covered. Students offering this course shall essentially learn how to bring visual ideas to reality through the varied processes of multiple image-making through experimentations at the university press to enrich students’ experiences further.

Casting glass forms. General laboratory flame working practice. Safety precautions fabrication of laboratory glasswork examples are: Funnels, test tubes, pipettes. Techniques for the individual laboratory glasswork; warming outing cane and slabs, clearing pre-heating, positioning rods and accessory tool handling. The free-blowing team “shop” stem preparation for goblet production.

90) Continuation of practical works started in IDD307.

The course focuses on the history, theory, and practice of designing, emphasizing natural fabrics and their use in clothing and fashion and environmental and general industrial applications through time. Assignments will identify natural and manufactured fabrics, pattern making, colour and pigment application, materials, and equipment used in the industry.

Definition of fashion merchandising and merchandising concepts and terminologies -(Fashion cycle, fashion trend, fashion design, fashion forecasting, fashion predictors, fashion image, fashion store image, fashion leader, fashion followers, couture mass fashion, fads.). The stages of fashion cycle, fashion cycle in relation to fashion innovation and diffusion. Theories of fashion diffusion. The roles of fashion leaders and fashion followers. The concept of fashions followership and reasons for followership. Fashion merchandising concepts: Merchandiser, market -target market, retailing demand, consumer education, market survey, inventory, assortment planner, Assortment planner, assortment planning, balanced assortment, characteristics of assortment plans- size - price - colours - seasons. Principles and scope of fashion industry, types of different merchandising in the fashion industry namely, retail, export and visual. The structure of fashion merchandising in the fashion industrial viz –strategies –buying, the intangibles of fashion, fashion as mirror of the time. Meaning of Environment, the components of environment and environmental factors (sociological factors, psychological factors and economic factors) that influence fashion interest and demand. Definition of sales promotion, strategies for promoting sales of fashion merchandise – (Advertising, display, personal selling, direct marketing, publicity). The skills needed to succeed in the competitive fashion/ garment production- (Marketing skills, Production skills, communication and inter personal skills, creativity with great sense of style, good eye for materials, strong visualization abilities). Definition of branding in fashion merchandizing, the relevance of branding in fashion industries. Areas of Branding- (Customer profiling, Building a brand, Luxury brands, Brand promotion, Brand protection). Relevance of store image and fashion image to the fashion Merchant. Online marketing. Definition of policy, types of policies in relation to fashion merchandising. Effect of policies on fashion merchandising.

Provides students with the knowledge of the role of textile designer; various types of fabric surface designs (structural and applied). Emphasis will be on applied design such as furnishing, wrapper, shirt, dress, java, and madras designs. Fabric design concept development through classroom exercises in basic repeat patterns on paper. Colour exploration is paramount as an element of design. Intensive paper work to develop in students a creative approach in fabric design techniques, synthesis and application of design theories: paper to fabric procedures and processes in furnishing, wrapper, shirt prints, java prints among others. Making of thumbnail sketches and colour roughs of motifs suitable for adoption in repeat patterns. Exercises expose students to various techniques to produce prototypes of fabric surfaces which can be fashioned to an end use.