Explore Floral Design Course
This course can either be taken as a full day course (over 10 weeks) or an evening course (2 nights per week over 10 weeks).
The Exploration of Floral Design Course will teach the basic principals of floral design, and so much more. Each class will have a morning/evening lecture and afternoon/evening of hands on designing. Students will participate in the processing and handling of fresh flowers each day for the lab session.
Students will be trained to execute all basic forms of design to apply for a floral designer position. This is a required class for job placement. The class offers business information on pricing for profit, daily sales, floral delivery expenses, and bulk purchases for profitability, and so much more! Students will have a final exam on materials covered during lectures. Every class day will be more fun than you can imagine and the amount of flowers to work with and industry information is unbeatable!
Topics covered include:
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Introduction to design
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Color terms and theory
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Processing and handling of fresh flowers
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Flower & Foliage identification
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Hands on design of basic forms of design
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Techniques in design
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Wedding Bouquets
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Flowers to wear
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Sympathy Tributes
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Every day designs
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Pricing of floral products
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Salesmanship with FLOWERS
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Handling Customer complaints
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Balance, Emphasis, Harmony, Proportion, Rhythm & Unity
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Color, Form, Line, Space & Texture
The Flower Classroom provides a Notebook of Floral information, Color Wheel, Floral design tools and a California Flower Selection guide, and industry catalogs. Floral tools and all flowers will be provided.
Students should bring something for note taking and a calculator.
A certificate of completion of this class will be available with the final exam.
Students that have enrolled and passed the Explore Floral Design and wish to enroll in the Advanced Floral design class that follows will be given a discount on that class price when combining these 2 classes.
Cost: $1,864.50