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Shoe Project Manager

...in partnership with the CAD leader company LECTRA a unique course in shoe design and pattern making

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The philosophy

The training project comes out from recent analysis and experiences in collaboration with firms and professionals, to give adequate answers to the multiple critical points emerging in the footwear sector.

Nowadays the main factors defining the present situation of firms and related market are:

market internationalisation and integration:
creation of value through marketing, design and prototype making;
the generation turnover in the strategic stage of planning;
the necessity to have qualified technicians;
the non-stop training of employees;
the new technologies ICT and CAD/Engineering:
the delocalized production.

Professional Profile

The manager of Footwear Design is a high technical level professional figure operating in the strategic stages of the product management through the entire industrial chain.

He manages all the required steps up to the prototype realization integrating Design Office proposals with Production’s needs. He has got a specific competence in models realization, in models shape transformations and in prototypes realization. He has in depth competences in the new computer technologies CAD D2 & 3D, Plottering, Cutting and of the tools for the engineering and the management of the international production.

The manager of Footwear Design is a professional figure deeply informed on work technologies and techniques besides the production cycle of the footwear sector, including the work stages for leather tannery and production procedures. He is able to distinguish different leathers, to use instruments, tools and materials, to carry out the elaboration and the on paper design, to realize patterns, to ideate and to understand the Design lines, to manage the warehouses, the patterns and the parameters with computer devices. He mainly is employed by footwear factories or in the profession even as an associate professional.

Requisites for course admission

The course implies a mandatory part time attendance of three days per week. Subjects motivated to develop a highly professional competence with great responsibility can be admitted in the course. To enter the course need to be taken and positively evaluated an entry test on the subjects objects of study. If the entry test has a negative evaluation with a score “intermediate”, it is possible, thanks to a special program created by the Institute, to attend an intensive free course defined pre-access (subject to prior enrolment).

Didactic Program

Knowledge and Competences in professional technical area

The Shoe Project Manager is a strategic figure in the Footwear sector. He uses creative skills and, thanks to his technical knowledge which will allow him to realize a Prototype, he will transform the project in product.

This is the work of the modern designer, and therefore our course’s aim, which can be reached thanks to the presence of experts and professionals acquainted with all the aspects of the job and willing to pass them over to new and fresh talents.

Being able to carry out a project, to organise and follow all the steps to the realisation of the project, are the important elements of a training pathway which will guide the student to the realisation of a full collection of footwear products.

The main technical subjects the participant will develop and acquire, are:

introduction, knowledge of the figure of the pattern maker in a business environment.
idea, design and project;
the feet, anatomy and characteristics;
the shape, heel, typology;
methods of shape measurements, sizes and charts;
knowledge of models: woman, man and child.
knowledge of typologies: elegant shoe, evening shoe, walking shoe, casual shoe, technical shoe, sanitary medical shoe, work shoe, orthopaedic shoe.
The production Chain (from the project - idea to the consumer)
the leather: how they are born and how they are transformed.
identification and extracting of the patterns’ pieces: court shoe, derby shoe, laced shoe with a fringe, slipper, slipper with moccasin stitch, sabot, chanel, sandal, boot, moccasin.
the workmanship.
Collection planning and materials research.
Optimisation of the stages and relation with partners.
A test in leather will be realized for the main patterns.

Fashion Graphic Design

Digital graphic applied to the fashion sector. Use of the main computer graphic software, essential for the modern designer and to enter into the business world.

Self – Marketing

This is a very personal-related course, which helps students to promote themselves and their own professionalism. Creating their own personal profile in a winning way also thanks to the competences developed in the Fashion Graphic Design Course and thanks to the web space, the Institute puts at student’s disposal to gather all the works performed within the course. From the Curriculum Vitae to the portfolio of their own creative proposals.

CAD Knowledge and Competences

CAD 2D – Introduction

Bookshop and symbols for Footwear Design drawing

2D digitalisations and development

drawings Designs and projects come-out

CAD 3D – Introduction

Bookshop and symbols for Footwear Design

3D elaborations and development

Drawings Designs and projects come-out

c.P.D.M. – Introduction

Control and check tools ISO 2001

Drawings Designs and projects come-out

Training Methodology

Theoretical lessons, workshop, visits to firms

The single course will be carried on by professionals and teachers with a well-established work and teaching experience in this sector.

So their approach will be finalized to provide constantly updated technical competences, which can be helpful in the prompt insertion in working contexts.

The Institute puts at participants’ disposal all the didactical materials in digital format, downloadable from the dedicated section in Modartech portal. At the moment of enrolling each participant will receive a personal password to free access the dedicated section, where all the course related texts, images and video can be found.

With the same password students can also access the self-marketing portal offered by the Institute. Here they can place curricula, profiles and works, being this an auto-promotion instruments which represents a reference point for all the Modartech Group companies looking for trained personnel.

Duration and Timetable

One year.

Starting date: October.

4 days a week from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm

Synergy and Cooperation

Modartech is a public-private Consortium joining together training professionals with a network of firms continuously evolving and growing in this sector.
Technicians and entrepreneurs of some of the most representative companies of the sectors of intervention are members of the Technical Scientific Committee and collaborate to the training planning to guarantee learning pathways in line with market’s requirements.
The same companies, available for internships, consider the Institute as the ideal partner to find trained young people and their point of reference for the constant training of their own personnel.

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