Textile Design

Overview

The Textile Design BA program from the RMIT University focuses on the contemporary and global textile design industry,  emerging markets, and related fields. Textile designers work across multiple contexts, and students will develop intelligent, creative and active studio-based learning approaches to design.

Textile designers work across multiple contexts and collaborate with other disciplines, such as fashion, interior, architecture, industrial, automotive industries, as well as developing emerging, custom and niche independent design practices.  

Within this Textile Design BA program from the RMIT University, your studies will cover diverse and contemporary practice, including commercial, contemporary and global textile design industry, related fields and emerging markets. 

You will be able to customise your study when you select a minor specialisation in fashion design, enterprise, and sustainable innovation. As part of this, you’ll be encouraged to create ethical design propositions and use cross-disciplinary design strategies and collaboration to drive global and competitive practice.  

Upon completing your degree, you will have comprehensive knowledge in textile design to prepare you for a wide range of existing and new industry contexts and jobs of the future, whether as an emerging designer, or to pursue further study and research.

Career opportunities:

Graduates enter into a variety of professional roles in the fashion and textile sectors, including commercial practice, niche, design production, emerging markets and related disciplinary contexts. 

These roles are in global enterprises in design industries, including fashion, industrial, interior, architecture, automotive, and visual arts practices.

This qualification can lead to careers including:

• textile designer

• print, materials, knitwear and product designer

• colour and trim designer for automotive  

• colour and trend forecaster

• stationary designer

• surface designer for interiors

• upholstery fabric, wallpaper, carpet and rug designer

Accreditation

This course is nationally accredited by the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).