As a world leader in fashion design and technology education, London College of Fashion is able to provide state of the art technological equipment and software expected of a world-class manufacturing environment. Through Digital Fashion and the bureau service, companies are able to access the technology necessary to achieve the competitive advantage essential for profitable business success. We have invested in top of the range facilities so you don’t have to, putting at your disposal the opportunity to turn creative ideas into commercial reality.

The bureau service at Digital Fashion has expert technical advice on hand, and is able to offer full design solutions through consultancy packages and tailor-made training.

Digital Fashion at London College of Fashion comprises of

• Print
• Colour
• Make
• Design
• Body

to bring together technologies including rapid prototyping, bodyscanning, digital textile print, 3D image manipulation, and colour management.

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Print /

Leading edge technology for innovative textile design

Digital textile printing offers immediate results – an advantage which can be crucial in today’s fashion market, and which can not be achieved with silkscreen or rotary screen printing. London College of Fashion’s investment in large format printers aims to be a valuable resource for artist and fashion or textile designers.

Digital textile print can make possible the accurate reproduction of a wider range of imagery without the need of colour separation, from photographic effects to the exact rendition of historical reproductions. It enables design and colour changes to be made spontaneously, and much more subtle and complex details to be printed with greater ease than conventional printing.

Digital Fashion: Print at London College of Fashion is a bureau service that makes state of the art equipment available to all designers, including those that work with textiles, fashion, theatre and costume, interiors, and home furnishings.

Using Mimake Tx2 large format printers we can print on to any natural woven fabric, i.e. cotton, silk, linen, wool and viscose. All fabrics go through a pre-treatment process for inkjet, then are steamed and washed to fix the dyes, making the resulting fabric as permanent as any store bought garment. Artwork can be provided on CD, memory stick, or emailed. We accept PC and Mac formats.

Expert technicians are on hand to oversee the print process and to provide expert advice. We are also able to offer a total design solution through a consultancy and design service.

The bureau can also provide training facilities.

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COLOUR /

Match perfect colour calibration

Inaccuracy in reproducing colour can now be a thing of the past with London College of Fashion’s colour management system. Using AVA software and GretagMacbeth hardware, you can ensure that colour calibration is match perfect from the screen throughout the design process.

At Digital Fashion, we can calibrate monitors and printers for different ink sets and substrates to ensure highly accurate colour management, produce colourways from pre-separated files and simply drag and drop new designs into existing colourways, and recolour using a variety of simple and speedy methods. AVA Colour provides the highest quality of tonal overprinting and fall-on simulation.

The GretagMacbeth Spectrolino, in conjunction with the SpectroScan, can be used to input colour from chips or swatches for accurate LAB colour data, using an annular lens optical system to ensure consistent results from screen to inkjet print.

Digital Fashion: Colour is available to all designers, including those that work with textiles, fashion, theatre and costume, interiors, product design, and furniture.

make /

Translating 2D into 3D for Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping has emerged as one of the most exciting and fast moving technologies of the last 10 years. The ability to create 3D objects direct from CAD, without tooling and the associated set-up costs has dramatically reduced cost and time to market for products in many areas, including:

• Footwear
• Jewellery
• Accessories
• Special effects
• Models/Toys
• Medical
• Product
• Architecture

Digital Fashion: Make at LCF is a bureau service available to all designers requiring 3D colour concept models from CAD files. Using a Z Corp Spectrum 510 printer which is up to 10 times faster than other rapid prototyping processes, the bureau is able to translate an .stl file into a 3d physical model.

A 3D CAD, visualisation and realisation service for making .stl files is also available.

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Design /

Design and development with digital technology

Proficiency in the use of computer aided design and manufacture has become imperative in today’s ever-demanding fashion and lifestyle industries. London College of Fashion’s has invested in state of the art technology and software to make leading CAD/CAM technology and 3D design software available to designers across the creative industries.

Our core team of design specialists and technicians are able to provide insight and advice on new technology and design tools and are able to put.

Digital Fashion is able to offer access to comprehensive facilities including haptic software Freeform Concept which can be used for virtual modelling, and the 3D design package Maya to be used in product design, architecture and animation.

Digital Fashion: Design is available to all designers, including those that work with textiles, fashion, architecture, medicine, interiors, product design, and furniture.

Body /

3D Body scanning

London College of Fashion can offer a distinct advantage in leading fashion design technology with Digital Fashion’s bodyscanning facilities.

The 3D body measurement system developed by [TC]² uses safe white-light technology and non-moving scan heads to capture 3D data points of an individual’s image, automatically extracting hundreds of extremely accurate measurements. This can be used in conjunction with 3D design to produce spot on readings of the body.

The uses of the 3D body model can be unlimited, including:

• Custom fitting apparel
• Sizing surveys
• Apparel sizing standards development
• 3D product development
• Body shape analysis
• Animation and graphics
• Health & fitness management
• Medical applications
• Computer gaming immersion

Digital Fashion: Body is available to all designers, including those that work with textiles, fashion, theatre and costume, interiors, product design, and furniture.