Jeff Hendrickson, an Honors Graduate of FIT who had the great fortune of co-designing a line that showed at Fall 2003 NYC Fashion Week, has spent the last 25 years digging into design projects around the world. From the textile mills of Tuscany to the garment manufacturers of Hong Kong, he has studied and learned from the best in the world.  He now wants to give back by sharing what he's learned with you and he will be working with Fashion Students Online in the upcoming future in an effort to reach as many students and learners as he can.

Below are 6 videos walking you through a technical illustration and showing you how to use apparel specs to create a technical drawing which can be used by others working with you. There are another 5 or so videos to be published and they will be included in Part II. Jeff has created pdfs which can be used to follow along with these lessons. You can find them on his website, Laughing Raven Studio.

Overview:
Overview video to start a series on technical design documents for factory use. If you want to start using a tried and true document, used in factories around the world for garment manufacturing, this is it. Start here and watch all the rest.

Step 1:
This is the first lesson. You learn how to apply top stitch lines by doing a copy and paste. Learn the importance of line weight and and start getting into best practices.

Step 2:
Getting started with the Illustrator pen tool for creating curved lines. Also how to use reflect to make a copy speed up your workflow.

Step 3:
In Step 3 we get moving and take out seams to redesign for more work with the pen tool. We talk about groups a bit, layers, and adjusting paths.

Step 4:
Continued work with the pen tool as we

Step 5:
In Step 5 of the video tutorial on garment flat design, we get into more seam work and you'll hear a little background on me. My intent with these videos is to help design students and junior designers learn a great way to represent garment design details to their teams and the factories.

Stay tuned for the next instalment from Jeff Hendrickson. To be notified when it is published subscribe to the tutorials section of Fashion Students Online.

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Learn How To Create and Use Technical Apparel Drawings Part 1
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Jeff Hendrickson, an Honors Graduate of FIT who had the great fortune of co-designing a line that showed at Fall 2003 NYC Fashion Week, has spent the last 25 years digging into design projects around the world. From the textile mills of Tuscany to the garment manufacturers of Hong Kong, he has...

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