Workshops

Pippa runs creative design and shoemaking workshops, based on her commercial experience as a Footwear and Accessories Designer. She trained with Aliss as a Creative Apprentice, to gain practical experience of planning and running workshops in schools.

Creative Shoemaking Workshops

Using shoemaking lasts (forms) and focussing on re-using and recycling, to design, pattern-cut and make a sandal or flip-flop.

Areas of Focus:

o Introduction to commercial shoe design and product development with short presentation of Pippa's work
o Creating a simple sketchbook by re-using waste paper
o Designing a sandal or flip-flop
o Material testing and experimentation
o Simple pattern-cutting for shoes, based on simplified commercial pattern-cutting methods
o Shoemaking using a shoemaking last (form) to create a sandal or flip-flop
o Re-using and recycling

Materials:

Re-using the following materials: Paper, card, textiles, plastic and rubber off-cuts from commercial printers, or other commercial off-cuts, as available

Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4 and above.

Please contact Pippa for more information.

Adobe Photoshop Workshops

Creative computer workshops where students learn how to use Adobe Photoshop (or Elements) as a design tool, in order to produce a story board and to render their hand-drawn designs with colour and scanned materials.

Creating a mood board:

An introduction to Photoshop layers, cropping images, opacity and applying text, and also layouts. Students gain practical experience of the skills required to create a story board and how to add text information/key words.

Rendering a design:

Working on their own hand drawn designs, students learn how to render them with both colour and scanned materials. They work with layers in order to develop a range of colourways to create a design presentation board.

These workshops are suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4 and above, and can contribute towards National Curriculum ICT requirements.

Please contact Pippa for more information.

Creative and Media Diploma

As a professional Footwear and Accessories Designer, Pippa can design and run projects, or provide a consultancy service, to satisfy the Footwear subject area of the new Creative and Media Diploma.

Please contact Pippa to discuss your requirements.