Textile and Clothing Design Technology

In the textile industry, there is a pressing need for people who can facilitate the translation of creative solutions from designers into manufacturing language and data.The design technologist has to understand the elements and principles employed by designers and how these change for various textile media. One must also have a good understanding of the processes, materials, and products for which the textile designer is required to produce creative solutions. This book will be for designers wishing to improve their technological knowledge, technologists wishing to understand the design process, and anyone else who seeks to work at this design-technology interface.

Professor Cassidy holds the Chair of Design in the University of Leeds. He holds four degrees ( ATI, MSc, MBA and PhD) and is a fellow of the Design Research Society (FRDS). He has been in education for thirty-eight years, following nine years in industry. Professor Cassidy has carried out many consultancies, both nationally and internationally, since the late 1970s, for agencies such as the UN, ODA and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a regular reviewer for the Textile Research Journal, Measurement Science and Technology, the Journal of the Textile Institute and many other academic journals. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics, Textile Progress, and the Journal of Global Fashion Marketing. He has supervised twenty-four PhD students and three MPhil students to completion and is currently supervising eleven. Professor Cassidy’s research interests are wide and span most areas of design technology and management with particular strengths in textile and fashion design technology and education. He has held grants from the EPSRC and the AHRC for projects in Design Technology and Design Management.

Dr. Goswami obtained a Bachelors’ degree in Textile Technology and then worked within different industries, including a world leading third party textile testing and quality certification company. Subsequently, he obtained a Masters degree in Advanced Textile and Performance Clothing and a PhD at the University of Leeds. Dr. Goswami heads the Fibre and Fabric Functionalisation Research Group at the University of Leeds. Dr. Goswami’s domains of research are product development using flexible materials and application of chemistry for functionalising textiles. Dr. Goswami manages a large profile of research concerned with fibre/polymer science, nonwovens, medical textiles (implantable materials, nonimplantable materials), sustainable materials (fundamentally understand the properties of new material), application and development of nano/ sub-micron fibres for novel applications, plasma treatment for functionalising textiles, and textile chemistry. Dr. Goswami is a technical referee in peer-reviewed journals, such as: ‘Textile Research Journal’, ‘Coloration Technology’, ‘Clothing and Textiles Research Journal’, ‘Carbohydrate Polymers’, ‘Journal of Applied Polymer Science’ and ‘Journal of the Textile Institute’.