PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
Design a Handbag
Collection
Learn how to plan and design a cohesive accessory collection and smoothly communicate your ideas to a manufacturer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
Learn how to plan and design a cohesive accessory collection and smoothly communicate your ideas to a manufacturer.
Access to ~3 hours of detailed, video instruction across 3 individual lessons – easily viewable on common digital devices. Includes downloadable PDF files of lists and guides referenced in the course. Students should have internet access.
You’ll also be able to schedule a 1/2-hour live video consultation with Sara, the instructor.
This course is designed for aspiring designers seeking professional advice from industry experts, designers at the start of their career in need of guidelines to optimise their design process or for those who are simply looking to develop their drawing techniques for their own enjoyment. No previous experience is required.
Initially you will learn what to research, understand and look out for before starting to design your collection.
Then you will learn about creating a moodboard, understanding the importance of handbag construction, types of finishing and decorative-functional details, considerations for the crucial aspect of choosing materials and fittings, how to design the different technical views of a handbag, how to create 3D drawings, how to smoothly communicate technical information with a manufacturer and much more.
This course allows you to explore your creative side, develop an understanding of essential skills in accessory design and enables you to convert your ideas into reality.
This 3 hour long course is designed by a team of designers, prototype makers and handbags manufacturers.
It is both a theoretical and practical course which will teach you what the industry requires from designers in order to be able to understand and correctly translate their ideas into finished products.
This course is not about creating pretty drawings, but is focused on giving you an overview on the complexity and extensiveness of the process that designing a collection of handbags requires.
The course will help you in understanding what you need to search, study, look out for, find out and decide before and during designing your styles, enabling you to avoid a long, expensive and sometimes frustrating process when it is time to prototype and manufacture your collection.
After years of experience in designing and developing collections for our customers, we realised that there was a substantial lack of clear information available about what designing a collection of handbags and fashion accessories requires and how it is achieved.
We created this course with the aim of helping the new generation of designers, as well as designers which are still struggling, in developing their ideas and empower them to clearly and correctly communicate them to whoever is going to prototype their collection.
We essentially have created this tuition based on the needs and problems of our customers, hoping to promote and facilitate creatives in the realisation of their projects.
Once the course is purchased you will have access to a streaming link and you will be able to watch the videos at your pace, as many times as you wish, for 90 days.
Besides the access to the videos you will also receive access to a collection of handouts providing relevant information and useful resources.
Furthermore the purchase of the course will also entitle you to a half an hour video consultation with the teacher to discuss your project and answer any questions you might have.
During the video, the teacher will explain and show the techniques in easy to understand English and the video will also be fully subtitled in English.
New methodologies and terminology will be explained to you so that they are clear and easy to understand even if this is the first time you approach the topic.
My name is Sara and I am a designer-maker and the co-founder of The London Leather Workshop.
I graduated in fashion and accessory design and after 20 years of experience in the industry I built an extensive range of skills on both designing and manufacturing sectors, with a particular focus to leather and vegan leather goods.
At The London Leather Workshop, I assist startups and established brands with their design development and prototyping creation and I run a wide selection of workshops at our London studio and online.
The London Leather Workshop is also an active part of the design community:
This course includes several downloadable PDF documents, including:
In the introduction I’ll share some of my background, then dive into the approach for the course, it’s structure, how you’ll learn, and the steps we’ll take.
In this step, we’ll explore the importance of understanding your audience, searching your market, performing research, and studying the market and your competitors.
Here, we’ll explore what moodboards are, how to create them, types of moodboards, arrangements, digital and physical versions, and how they directly inspire your collection.
We’ll start drawing the collection using a Collection Plan. It will include key elements of the handbags and the collection, range, looks, and opportunities for iteration.
Here we’ll look at creating designs that can be communicated to manufacturers. This is through illustrations, technical drawings, the tools we use, and drawing the external views.
In this lesson we’ll go through drawing your bags in detailed perspective, one point perspective, and how to approach drawing the internal views of your designs.
Here are some screenshots from lessons in the course.
To complete this course you will need the following drawing tools:
This course is designed for aspiring designers seeking professional advice from industry experts, designers at the start of their career in need of guidelines to optimise their design process or for those who are simply looking to develop their drawing techniques for their own enjoyment. No previous experience is required.
Once you complete the purchase and are logged in, you will see a menu option appear for this course under “My Courses”. There, you can click to enter the course, view the lessons, and then progress through each one at your own pace.
As a digital item where all assets are delivered instantly, there are generally no returns. We think you’ll find a lot of value in this course and what you can learn from it.
The course is on our responsively-designed platform, so it can be easily viewed and enjoyed on most common digital devices such as desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices that have an internet connection.
You’ll have instant access to the course 24/7, for 90 days from the day you first enroll.
Sure, you can email me at:
learning@thelondonleatherworkshop.com
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