Equipped for Tomorrow – Today

These days the design field is experiencing the culmination of a 30-year transition from a proud craft tradition to a radical, all-encompassing digital and technological reality. At the same time, the entire fashion industry is facing a more or less total transformation to digital design. At Design School Kolding we have implemented the opportunities for fashion students to have ample access to digital tools, methods and procedures that meet the needs of the time and open up new business areas.

CLO 3D is an important tool in this context. The software programme is one of the finest examples of what simulation technology can achieve right now enabling the creation of virtual and real-world visualizations related to design and pattern development within apparel design.

Digital design is the future

- As a visionary design university, Design School Kolding is obligated to develop designers who work with digitalization as an integral part of their professionalism, says Christel Arnevik, who is Head of Fashion Design at Design School Kolding.

- The 3D tool CLO 3D provides the students with new, creative and intuitive tools for the design process, in other words, they will be equipped to meet tomorrow already today! At the same time, the degree of sustainability is increased through streamlining of the production and the design process and by a reduction of material consumption. And last, but not least – in a Danish context – we are at the forefront of digital design, she explains.

CLO 3D is fully implemented in the Fashion Design line of study, where the students are introduced to the programme in the third semester of the Bachelor’s Programme and the first year of the Master’s Programme, respectively, after which they have the opportunity to develop design and form both analogically and digitally. From the 2020/21 academic year the software programme will also be included in the curriculum of the Textile Design and Accessory Design lines of study. In addition focus is on the continued development of digital teaching material and knowledge exchange with other educational institutions as well as with industry organizations and companies.