This honours degree offers you the opportunity to advance your design process, develop independent practice, and deepen your specialisation in textile design industries. 

You will research and examine your design practice within the context of critical, engaged and contemporary textiles systems, and related disciplines. You will expand and explore your key design skills, techniques, materials and expressions to advance your design practice for targeted contexts. 

This course is designed as part of the Advanced Fashion and Textiles Design Studios, where you will be immersed in creatively challenging and engaging contemporary practice.

As a graduate, you will be able to demonstrate design strategies that reflect contemporary practice, emerging markets and economies, and materially-led design across and outside the textile and fashion design discipline. This advanced knowledge will deepen your portfolio, and set you up for professional design and design-related roles in industry. 

The course utilizes research-enabled subjects and strategies to tap into emergent discipline areas, and offers specific pathways through a project-led model and independently-designed projects in specific industry contexts.

Graduates from this course occupy significant positions in various roles in creative industries in Australia and internationally.

This qualification can lead to careers including: 

• textile and digital textile designer and artist
• materials, knitwear and print designer
• product designer
• colour and trim designer for automotive
• colour and trend forecasting
• illustrator
• freelance designer
• stationary designer
• carpet and rug, surface, upholstery fabric, and wallpaper designer