Footwear Design and shoemaking Short Course
Details
The Technical Footwear Design course is structured to equip the student with the essential skills and information to start off in the footwear industry as a designer or for those wanting to start their own footwear brand and manufacture their own
shoes.
The course does not necessary have to take place in the sequence below:
- Sketching profiles of the last
- Sketching the individual classical styles
- Rendering Footwear sketches and presentation
- Placing style lines of styles onto standards
- Safety and Use of equipment
- Pattern Cutting
- Creating Forms and the Standard W
- Manipulating standards for variouse styles
- Applying patternmaking to manufacturing demands
- The development process
- Technical specifications for manufacturing
- The manufacturing process and machinery
- The Industry
Manufacturing Practicals:
- Cutting of materials
- Stitching of uppers
- Assembly of uppers
- Lasting processes
- Preperation and Sole attatchment
- Finishing of shoes
- Development and design of your own brand
- Developing the brand identity
- Design and development of first range of sandals based on brand identity.
- Range is placed on-line where it is marketed on behalf of student, manufactured and delivered.
Schedules
| Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu | 08:00 AM — 01:00 PM |
The School was started in 2009 by Glyn Giani when he realised that if his generation does not pass down quality skills in footwear it will be lost over time and leave us at the mercy of Chinese footwear industry. To date over 1000 students have passed through our doors and the school currently only has a branch in Pretoria, and students as far a Russia and Australia.
The school pioneered tuition in Footwear Design in South Africa and became the first and only Footwear Design School in the country which include assisting the M&FP Seta in developing a diploma in footwear design which should be registered in 2018.
The School was labled by the DTI as "an Institute of National Importance" in 2014 and subsequently assisted them in setting up the National Footwear and Leather cluster (NFLC) at Vaal University of Technology.
The school has an on-line platform which serves as a backup for blended (distance learning) and lecture facilities in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban
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