Our studentsĀ are creative, artistic, and inventive self-starters who think critically and are open to new ideas and team collaborations. They thrive under pressure and are intent on finding success in the exciting world of fashion.
With courses in pattern drafting and construction techniques, fashion history, textiles, design and draping, students will develop a strong foundation in fashion design, while learning about the business of Fashion.
The Fashion Design program
Our students are creative, artistic, and inventive self-starters who think critically and are open to new ideas and team collaborations. They thrive under pressure and are intent on finding success in the exciting world of fashion.
The Pacific Design Academy aims to provide the ideal learning environment to nurture these qualities and further develop the design and technical skills necessary and relevant to the fashion industry.
Our alumni have become Design Entrepreneurs, Assistant Designers, Technical Designers, Merchandisers, and Product Developers. The fashion industry is vast and exciting; opportunities exist for those with passion, direction, and skill.
Pacific Design Academy welcomes you to quality design arts education. Our curriculum is dictated by the current and evolving needs of the design marketplace. The education you receive is artistically inspired and supported by the latest digital technology. We encourage our students to develop marketable skills and to foster individual ability and excellence.
Our History
The Pacific Design Academy (PDA) was founded in 1991 to provide quality education in the design arts. From our earliest program offerings in Interior Design, the Academy has grown to become the pre-eminent private design school in Victoria.
Our classes are led by practicing professional designers, ensuring a curriculum that is appropriate to the needs of the design marketplace. PDA is a designated college with the Private Training Institutions Branch of the BC Ministry of Advanced Education. PDA has authority to grant diplomas for all full time programs listed on this website.
The Academy’s instructors are working professionals who bring current, up-to-date ideas into the classroom. We moved to a fresh new space in 2022, with classrooms and studios that are bright and well equipped. The software we teach is relevant to real-world needs with design-industry standard computer labs.
Our limited class size ensures you get the individual attention you need to successfully master new skills. Because of our quality approach to design training, our graduates emerge with highly marketable skills.
We believe the skills that you learn at Pacific Design Academy are the beginning of your career horizons. The skills you learn here will last you a lifetime. We take pride in our teaching environment where small classes and individual attention are the norm.
Join Kathy for this fun Quilt Along using the Quick Straight Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful.
The buyers are the real power players in fashion. They have their finger on the pulse of the industry, working directly with design houses and retailers to buy clothes and accessories for the consumers.
In seven weeks, you will make a quilt top, sandwich it, quilt it and finish off with a beautiful binding. The class covers accurate cutting, perfect piecing and squaring up, machine quilting and binding. After you take this class, you can proceed to our other "Confident Beginner" classes.
How to adapt the patterns according to its morphology? During this courseĀ offered online,Ā Ā you will learn how toĀ modify patterns according to various morphologies!
At Wayside Weeds and Wool, Amanda Carrigan produces handspun and natural-dyed yarns, hand-knitted accessories and original patterns and kits. Her patterns have been published in the ā101 Lace One-Skein Wondersā book from Storey Publishing, through KnitPicks, and on Ravelry.
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