Technical Support Contacts This page lists the specialist areas across The School of Art & Design, along with a brief description of what these domains offer. For more information on the available resources, please contact the relevant area of specialism using the emails listed below. Additional info can also be found on The 'NOW'

3D MAKE

• WOODWORK – A range of fixed, portable & traditional hand woodworking tools
• METALWORK - Machining & sheet metal fabrication. Welding & soldering available
• LASER CUTTING - Bureau service for cutting/engraving on a range of materials. Open access machine also available to use after online induction
• 3D PRINTING - Bureau service offering FDM & SLA printing in a variety of materials
• CNC ROUTING - Shaper Origin CNC Routers available by email booking

CAT Support

• ADOBE CC SUITE - Including (but not limited to) Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom & Premiere
• CLO 3D - Digital Fashion
• MAC & PC
• PAGE LAYOUT
• DESIGN FOR LASER CUTTING - Photoshop & Illustrator
• DESIGN FOR PUBLICATION - Adobe InDesign
• IMAGE EDITING - Photoshop
• SURFACE DESIGN & IMAGE EDITING
• IMAGE COMPOSITING - Mood boards etc
• LARGE SCALE IMAGE SCANNING

Core Services

• ARTSTORE - Equipment & room bookings, Filmmaking Store & Photo Store
• FABRIC SHOP - Calico, fabric samples, half scale mannequin hire, trims, pattern blocks, sustainable options, designer deadstock fabric
• BONINGTON ART SHOP
• NOW TECHNICAL LEARNING ROOM
• SUSTAINABILITY - Questions & actions

Garment

• FASHION
• INDUCTIONS & BOOKINGS - Lockstitch / Overlock, Heavy duty machines, Buttonholes, Bartacks, Blind Hemmer, Flatlock Coverseam
• COSTUME
• INDUCTIONS & BOOKINGS FOR - Domestic sewing machines / overlockers Industrial lock stitch / overlockers Dye room inductions & dyeing small quantities
• GARMENT CONSTRUCTION ADVICE

Immersive Media

• 3D SCANNING & PHOTOGRAMMETRY
• 3D ANIMATION
• MOTION CAPTURE
• PROJECTION MAPPING
• 3D SOFTWARE
• VIRTUAL REALITY
• SOFTWARE SUPPORT Includes (but not limited to) – Adobe Substance, Unreal Engine, Blender, Maya, MadMapper, Metascan, Twinmotion, AutoCAD, Reality Capture
• FUTURE SUPPORT WILL INCLUDE – Houdini, Marvellous Designer, Substance Painter, Cinema 4D, Virtual Production

Lens Based

• PHOTOGRAPHIC, VIDEO & SOUND EQUIPMENT
• TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES - Darkroom / Film Processing
• VIDEO PRODUCTION - Super 35mm video, DSLR Cameras, Lighting, GoPro
• SOUND PRODUCTION – Studio / portable recording, Foley, ADR

Materials

• CERAMICS WORKSHOP - Ceramics workshop with wide range of equipment and processes, glaze room, store, kiln room and plaster room
• DYE LAB- technical, industrial and natural dyeing & Waverley Dye Garden
• CASTING & MOULD MAKING - 2D and 3D casting in materials like silicone, resin, plaster and alginate
• HEAVY DUTY HUB - (Leather/Denim/Jersey) Industrial machines for leather, denim and jersey, hand tooling processes, eyelet presses, advanced machines
• BIO MATERIALS - Grow Lab and Materials Kitchen used to explore use of bio materials in creative practice
• WAVERLEY DYE GARDEN - Growing & harvesting plants for natural dyes and inks focusing on sustainability & wellbeing

Print

• SCREEN PRINTING - Fabric processes / Paper. Bookable sessions & Workshops
• PRINTMAKING - Techniques such as Lino Cutting, Intaglio, Mono, Collagraph booking the Print Press
• LETTERPRESS - Printing Press, Typesetting & Toolkit / Induction Workshops
• LARGE FORMAT INKJET - Digital printing on a range of roll paper stocks
• DIGITAL PRINTING SERVICE - Inkjet, Laser, White, Clear, Neon & more
• 1-1 SUPPORT - Bookable 1 on 1 sessions with one of the print team specialists.
• RISOGRAPH - Bookable sessions & Workshops
• DIGITAL FABRIC PRINTING - Digital fabric / Dye Sublimation paper printing
• UV PRINTING - Print on any flat surface up to the size of A2 and a thickness of up to 150mm

Yarn Textiles

• EMBROIDERY - General Embroidery machines (Bernina, Irish, Juki, Cornely, embellishers, overlocker, Pleaters and Tufters)
• WEAVE - Arm Touch 60, George Wood Looms, Table Looms, Warping Mills, 1 x Jacquard Power Loom, TC2’s and Yarn store
• KNITTING - Digital Knit (Stoll and Shima) Dubied knitting machines, Steam Bed, Winding machines, overlockers, linkers, lock stitches, and more

Student Account / I.T.

• SUPPORT FOR STUDENT CARD
• COMPUTER LOG-IN
• ACCOUNT ISSUES
• FOR GENERAL MFP PRINTER ISSUES, REFUNDS & SUPPLIES PLEASE CONTACT DT SUPPORT

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