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Fabric is a transverse medium resulting from various fields of applied arts. Its primary use is in fashion, yet it is applied in many other disciplines such as product design, interior design, accessories, patterns, graphics and photography.

Initially, when a designer conceptualizes and then creates fabric designs, the sensitivity of materials, colors, graphics, structures and forms are researched and brainstormed before being developed. A textile designer must always consider the target markets and new, or existing technologies during this process. This systematic course of action allows for a sensible, cultural, dimensional and economically valued product reflective of the everyday environment.

“Textile sensitive design” is a concept that combines colors, materials and images. This association between mediums is triggered and felt by the senses, and can therefore be linked to different design fields, where they create greater dimensional projects and products.

Product design:

• Colors and materials both bring aesthetic compositional value to an object, to garments and spaces.
• The creation of an accessory link’s object design and fashion design.

Spacial design:

• More commonly understood in terms of decoration, furniture and interior design. Combining color and design concepts and applying them to spacial dimensions.
• For exemple the work of a colorist can sometimes include work such as studying colors for the aesthetic construction of the exterior of a building.

Fashion design:

• The most famous and direct link with textile design: color work, material choices, designs and printed collections of ready to wear, lingerie, etc…
• The creation of accessory binding design objects and fashion design.

Graphic design :

• In a photographic representation, textile’s sensitivity can be explored through repetition, structure, construction, rhythm and abstraction.
• This in turn, can create associations between images, creating meanings, senses, trends and moods.
• The work pattern and the colors combined can hence be related to graphics.