Two-Day Intensive Introduction to Footwear Design, Berkley/New York, USA

Duration: 14 hrs
Class times: 10am - 6pm, next course scheduled for 22-23 April 2012
Course tutor: Aki Choklat
Booking procedure: Click the course date at the bottom of the page to put the course into your shopping basket, then follow the steps indicated to complete payment to guarantee a space.

Special notice: This course has two locations: Berkley and New York. When you book please bear the venue in mind.

Course details:

Would you like to start your own footwear label? Based on an extremely popular seminar series which has been running in London for several years, this course is designed to give you a brief but intensive overview of the footwear design industry.

Now only available in the USA, this course is truly a unique opportunity to learn from the industry's leading minds. We are running this both in Berkeley, San Francisco and JCC of Manhattan in New York, so students in the US can take advantage of this unique opportunity.

Led by international shoe designer Aki Choklat, the first day will be spent exploring creative design techniques, developing ideas from your inspiration, drawing and expanding a collection from those ideas in a highly experimental format. Students are often surprised by how much creativity they found within them and how wonderful designs they can create under Aki's special style of tuition in such an intensive period of time.

The second day will feature a seminar on what it takes to start a label. The full design cycle will be explored, from design idea to the point when a shoe goes into the shop for sale. It will help you answer questions such as: 'How do I find a factory?', 'How many pieces should be in my first collection?' and 'When and where should I sell my collection?'

All necessary materials for design practise are included.

No previous experience in the footwear industry or as a maker/designer necessary.
No previous design or illustration skills required.

About lecturer Aki Choklat:

Since he graduated ten years ago, with a masters in footwear design from the prestigious Royal College of Arts, Aki Choklat has been running his own successful label which is sold worldwide by numerous fashion retailers, including Barneys, Harvey Nichols, Takashimaya and Dover Street Market. He also lectures internationally at universities and colleges - most notably the highly acclaimed Polimoda fashion school in Florence. Aki has written two books including 'Shoe Design', co-authored by Rachael Jones and published by Daab in 2009, and book 'Footwear Design', which will be released by Laurence King Publishing in March 2012.

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