for detailed instruction, and top-mounted automated screens for color and resolution. All labs have printers, scanners, Canon digital SLR cameras with video capa-bility, and camera equipment.

TEXTILE DESIGN

The Graphic Design program, facilities, and equipment are available on the Los Angeles campus. All Graphic Design students are given Adobe Creative Cloud when they register in the first quarter.

INTERIOR DESIGN

The Interior Design major utilizes PC Labs to facilitate the software requirements for the on-site classes to include AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Students receive all of the necessary software for off-site usage and compatible for a PC. Use of the 3-D printer is an accessed collabo-ration with the IT department. The Textile Testing Lab is used in conjunction with the Textile Science for Interior Design course required for the major.

The students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts Interior Design program access specialized equipment in Tex-tile labs and digital camera equipment as specified for checkout purposes.

MERCHANDISE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

In addition to standard equipment (see Computer Facilities), Merchandise Product Development students utilize the three pattern rooms and two sewing rooms at the Hope Street building of the Los Angeles campus for training in manual pattern drafting, sewing, draping and fit analysis. The equipment at this facility includes drafting tables, dress forms, irons, ironing boards, rab-bit punches, single needle sewing machines, overlock sewing machines, merrow machines, blindstitch sew-ing machine, coverstitch sewing machine, buttonhole machine, and rolling racks. There are comparable facil-ities and equipment for first year classes on the Orange County campus. Second year facilities and equipment are only available on the Los Angeles campus. All spac-es are shared with the Apparel Industry Management and Fashion Design students.

VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

The students in this major also utilize the full suite of equipment and dye chemicals available in the Textile Testing and Dye labs on the Los Angeles campus for their second-year coursework in color management and textile testing. They also have access to PLM (Prod-uct Lifecycle Management) software by NGC to help develop, build, cost, produce, and track new designs.

MENSWEAR

FIDM’s Menswear major is an Advanced Study Program offered on the Los Angeles Campus. The Menswear program provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the design, marketing, and operation-al functions of today’s global menswear industry. The pattern and sewing portion of this program is taught in the Hope Street building and the rest of the course in PC Labs, Gerber Labs, and multipurpose classrooms. The equipment and computer programs used are the same as Apparel Industry Management with the following additions: men’s torso forms, men’s full body forms, and a rolling presentation rack.

There are suites of textile design and weaving labs for the printing, painting, dyeing, and weaving of textiles. These labs are shared by Fashion Knitwear Design, Textile Design, and Bachelor Design students.

The textile design labs are comprised of a print lab, dye lab, and a darkroom. The darkroom is equipped for the photo sensitive screen development processing and contains a 4' x 6' backlit washout sink, a 20" x 24" expo-sure unit, a dehumidifier, and a 1.7 cubic foot refriger-ator. The room also has an area for coating silkscreens with a photo-emulsion, and drying racks.

The dye, or pigment lab, is for the mixing of dyes and dye paste, vat drying, and the post treatment of steaming and washing of fabrics and yarn. There is a 20-gallon dye kettle and an induction stove used for large and small dye vats. This lab also has several large sinks,
a ventilated drying area, and several large work tables. There is a CAD station with Adobe Creative Cloud and Wasatch Rip software.

The print lab is for the printing and painting of textiles and has 4' x 7' padded print tables and a 4' x 15' table. All tables have a built-in established registration system. Students also have use of silk-screens and squeegees in a variety of sizes.

An additional lab that students have access to is the 3-D Prototyping Lab. It contains MACs and a PC laptop, pattern cutting tables, conference table, vinyl cutter, a heat press, Epson Photo printer, Glowforge laser cutter with an air filter, Formlabs 3-D additive laser printer with two wash tanks and an UltiMaker 3-D filament printer.

In addition to standard equipment (see Computer Facilities), the following equipment is used to design, develop, and fabricate shadow boxes, windows, and other displays: laserjet printer, 3-D printer, cutawls, hotwire machines, a hot knife, dremel tools, and a graphic 24" vinyl cutter.

The Visual labs and studios on the Los Angeles cam-pus are used for over 75% of the Visual Communications classes. The Prop Room is shared and stores manne-quins, paint, and other miscellaneous props. It also contains a sink. Each of the work tables in the Visual labs contains cutting matte boards. The Prop Room and Visual Labs are also equipped with an eyewash station and first-aid kits.

The Entertainment Set Design & Decoration Advanced Study Program shares all Visual Commu-nications facilities and equipment, including Drafting Rooms on the Los Angeles Campus.

The Visual Communications Programs and facilities are available on the Los Angeles campus, with only first-year students on the Orange County campus.