Designing Jacquard textiles and knitwear; conventional, technical, sports, medical, geo and disposable textiles; trendy, multi-layered content; relation with architecture and the arts; combined techniques of production, placement in the wider interior and exterior space.
Art in textile production with emphasis on the 20th century; its meaning in fine arts and connection to architecture; centres and current events; the meaning of ornament and its placement in an environment; production project work in connection with technological objects.
Introduction to desk-top publishing, presentation of output devices and formats, presentation of InDesign software; constructing text and images and editing them; typography; colour in printed matter and colour management; designing printed matter, designing simple interactive documents; production of PDF files.
Reading and reading strategies; introduction to the discourse of professional and technical texts; key words, writing abstracts; the use of dictionaries and other information sources; writing articles and reports; describing graphs; business communication; taking part in discussions.
Function, aims, assignments and fields of interior design and their relations with textile design. Designing interior for a selected sphere of activity with systematic design methodology.
Learning the process of planning a new company; entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, business plan, market analysis, checking the economic feasibility of a business idea, marketing plan, development plan for a production/service process, procuring adequate human resources; critical risk; financing a start-up business.
Meanings and basic principles of shaping messages; development of text and letter formats, printing in connection with design and art styles; textual and pictorial messages, elements of graphic composition and depth guidelines; editing symbols; contrast and assimilation; elements of fine art; basics of desktop publishing and preparing for print.
Special properties of textiles made of luxury fibers, such as cashmere, various types of wool, silk, textiles from non-traditional fibres, textiles with special comfort, textiles for good feeling, intelligent textiles, electronic textiles, leather, fur, technical textiles.
Various body shapes/postures and their influence on the construction/modelling of clothing cuts; development of special cuts for specific shapes/postures; Slovenian and foreign terminology of clothing terms.