Conceptual Design Method and Creativity in Textile Design

Abstract

In textile sector intuitive non-engineering methods and skill based designer oriented design processes are regarded as appropriate for textile manufacturing. However, design presented by the use of Prescriptive design models concludes to be more direct and rapid when compared to the Descriptive design models. For these reasons, systematic design techniques prove to be more scientific and easy to manipulate when compared to classical intuitive design techniques. Since textile, as an industrial product in essence, has its own design paradigms and scientific background, it has to define its own methodology in an attempt to form a scheduled, programmed and repeatable design process.The primary objective of this research is to provide support to the textile designer during early stages of the design process by using Conceptual Design steps, which can be used as a creative analysis process in textile design problems providing a high level of creativity. The Pahl and Beitz model is employed to investigate critical and complicated design problems of three design projects, each conducted by different student, solving different design requests from different fields of textile sector and thus, each fulfilling different transformation functions and design solutions. The resulting collections are presented and the steps of process are discussed in the Results & Discussion part.

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