Term 6
1) Class discussion/internet research/spider diagram on garden hand tools.
2) How to write a design brief eg: " I am going to ____and ______ a ________. The purpose of this tool is to__________. I will model it using_________and ________.The actual product would be made in a factory out of _______and _____. It must be_________and_________. It will also be ________and will appeal especially to__________".
3) How to write a Specification. Class discussion/internet research on product specifications. Main headings for this could be Function, Features, Aesthetics, Cost of Manufacture, Ease of Manufacture, Safety, (Bullet point say 3 to 5 facts about your design under these headings)
4) Produce an outline specification for your chosen garden hand tool.
Term 5
This week (complete previous weeks work first though ):
Continue with your A3 information pages. You may decide to cut and paste `snippets' of information in eye catching font style, using colour and embellish with curvilinear and/or cartoon style graphics. How is the product made? (remember that we need tools to make...tools!)
If you manage to complete the entire page (remember lots of colour, cut and pasted images, hand drawn and written info) then you could make a start on the next one by just giving the next sheet a title and a border.
First week Term 5
`Evolution of Design' - information presentation on A3.
1) Choose 5 very different everyday objects. Here are some examples: a shoe, an armchair, a kettle, a fridge, a bicycle etc. Research a little into their history. Look at early civilizations/inventors etc.
2) Take an A3 piece of paper an title it with the name of your first chosen object eg: `THE SHOE'.
3) You may be able to find pictures of your item in magazines OR print out from the internet., If so, cut and paste these onto your information page. Try and show the item at different stages in history. You may choose to carefully sketch and colour these images by hand instead. Around each image, label the item stating what materials are used and the purpose of the different parts of the item. A shoe for example may have leathers, textiles, synthetics, rubber, foam, and plastic in its manufacture.
4) Add a border to your work plus any facts about the history of the item. Remember not to write at length as the page will form part of a presentation mounted onto card whereby the viewer is looking at each page for a minute or two.
Term 4. This week (finish previous weeks work first though):
1) Discuss/research what is meant by a card model. Find out also what is meant by `scale'.
2) List all the sources of recycled card, not necessarily all of the same thickness.
3) Collect together enough card (use new card if necessary) for a model (height x width no more than 60x60cms).
3) On an A3 sheet begin sketching out the various parts and their dimensions. Your model does not need to be to scale but must be less than 60cms high and 60 cms long.
4) Using a ruler and a felt pen carefully draw the part outlines onto the plain side of the card.
5) begin cutting out all the parts for your model.
6) Store your model parts safely for continuation next week.
Previous weeks:
1) take an an A3 sized sheet of paper (or larger). Title it `Developed and final chosen idea' give it a 1cm border all the way round.
2) Using a ruler, carefully draw, as large as possible the overall outline of a storage system and/or one or more freestanding units (cupboards, drawers, shelves etc). Each single line now drawn will need to become a double line so carefully draw in parallel lines as necessary (to show the thickness of the material).
3) Using a ruler, begin drawing in the various compartments/drawers/shelves/cupboards etc as carefully as possible.
4) Use colour to carefully shade in the front edge of the material that the unit(s) are made of.
5) Once complete, recap the discussion about what items need to be stored at home. Then either draw or use colour images (printed at a suitable size) of items into the various spaces of your storage solution. For example: books, vases, ornaments, sports equipment, coats etc.
6) Add background colour shading.
7) Around the edge of your sheet (just outside the border) add notes and overall dimensions.
8) Carefully fold your work in two and store with previous weeks work.
1) Get an A3 sized piece of paper and title it `Design Ideas'.
2) Using a ruler begin producing 4 different ideas for a storage system and/or freestanding units. Show each idea with doors open (if it has doors) so that shelves/compartments/drawers can be seen.
3) Annotate your design ideas with the names and functions of the various features.
4) Add careful colour shading.
You will need: 2X sheets of plain A3 paper. Colouring pencils. Ruler and pencil. Internet (only if available), home furnishing catalogues magazines (only if available).
1) `Existing Products' - most rooms in your home will contain at least one item of storage furniture. Try and identify at least 7 different items. This can be done on the internet and/or using magazines and catalogues if you have them.
2) Once 7 different items are identified, you will need to draw them preferably in 3D at a size suitable for fitting 3 or 4 onto an A3 sheet. If you aren't happy with 3D sketching, then show a 2D front view and a side view for each item.
3) show all details, individual drawers and shelves, handles etc.
3) Add careful shading and try and show the `grain' of the wood if it is made of unpainted natural wood. Use colour too.
4) `Annotate' your sketches by drawing arrows to the various features of each product describing what those features are called or what their purpose is.
5) If you have printed from the internet, or sourced a catalogue, then carefully cut and paste each item in an array around the sheet.
6) Finish the sheet or sheets (you may use 2 sheets, 3 or 4 items per sheet) by drawing a border around the edge and giving it a title in bubble writing or block writing `RESEARCH: EXISTING PRODUCTS'
TERM 4 2021 First week:
`Storage system project'
Students will research materials, design styles and existing products used for storage in the home. A number of designs need to be produced which incorporate cupboards, drawers and shelving. This could be fitted to an entire wall or be a series of freestanding items of furniture in a lounge or bedroom.
1) Choose the setting: either lounge or bedroom
2) Make a list of twenty items which are typically stored (in your chosen room) in cupboards, shelves and drawers.
3) try and source a tape measure, or use by sliding a 30cm ruler along to measure the over all Height Width and Depth of either a large cupboard, chest of drawers or shelving unit at home.
4) Draw your item on paper and show the H, W, D dimensions from step 3.
5) If you have sourced a tape measure, then seek assistance to measure one wall (preferably a wall without a door or window in it) in the room. You will need to record its Height and Length.
6) Draw a large rectangle on a separate sheet to your chosen item of furniture showing the dimensions of this wall. The rectangle which represents the wall should be much larger than the drawing of the furniture.
7) put your work in a folder ready for continuing week after week.
Here's some videos to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUkAXTS5e8
Following on from completing the OCNR DIY skills H&S unit, students are to begin a mini design project based upon bathroom design.
This week (catch up on all previous weeks lessons first though if necessary):
Continue manufacturing the model. If finished write an evaluation by answering the following:
a) What colours have I use and why?
b) What did I find easy about making the model?
c) What have I found difficult?
d)How would I improve my design if I were to do it again?
Please ask the opinions of others also in order to fully answer the evaluation questions.
Previous weeks:
Source a length of thin card (this can be recycled from a cereal box for example). The card should be about 90cms X 20cms.
Divide its length into thirds (30cms) each and fold a line perpendicular from the edge at each 30cm point.
After checking all designs are fully colour rendered, begin cutting and pasting onto the card to make a three sided model, showing side elevation, and end views.
This will be added to using images of specific bathroom fixtures and fittings printed from the internet at a suitable size. These images may need copying and pasting into MS Word in order to resize them.
videos on bathroom design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUjA28cov8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZOpkwYwRDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GExZliI2U
video on bathroom fitting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVqFVx7-HRY
`Design a Bathroom’
List the range of bathroom fittings and accessories are. Also: themes for a bathroom (forest, desert, space, sea etc etc)
1) Take an A3 sheet and divide into 4 by folding crossways and lengthways or use 4 X a4 sheets to be stapled later
2) Come up with an original name idea for each design eg: `The Cornish suite’, `The Continental’, `The Dunes’ etc OR `The Pacific’ `Baltic’ `Lost in Space’ etc etc. Can be extended so overall design and specific sanitary fitting design is also discussed.
3) Try four different styles of line to use for each idea, curvilinear vs streamlined for example (or organic vs urban). May need some feint outlines provided.
4) Discuss colour schemes and environments, mood etc.
5) Work on one design at a time carefully. Use lines and careful colour shading to produce four very different designs for a side elevation of a bathroom (toilet, bath/shower or separate shower/ wash hand basin, cupboards, shelves etc all in one elevation = one design idea)
6) Extension – design a tile pattern for one of the bathrooms. (they have done something similar already as an exercise)
NEXT STEPS : drawing plan view of the bathroom showing positions of fittings and fixings and developing different ideas for wall coverings, lighting, flooring etc..Internet can be used…youtube vids on bathroom design, famous brands, history etc.
`Design a Bathroom’
List colour schemes, textures, lighting for a bathroom. Use the interactive board and the internet to look at bathroom design, as a class.
1) Begin drawing the individual units and fittings within rectangles, say 3cm by 2cm each.
2) Add detail and colour to each drawn item.
3) On a single sheet of a4, begin producing a wall design for the items to be set against.
4) Discuss colour schemes and environments, mood etc.
5) Work on the design carefully. Use lines and careful colour shading to produce a side elevation of a bathroom (w.c, bath, shower, wash hand basin, cupboards, shelves etc all in one elevation = one final design idea)
6) Carefully cut out the drawings of the individual items and arrange them along the backdrop by pasting. Alternatively, printed images can be used.
7) Extension – produce a tile pattern for the floor on a separate sheet.
NEXT STEPS : using thick card recycled from boxes (there are some under the interactive board on the DT room) begin producing a kind of free standing `triptych’ model (three sided – main wall showing units and fittings and the two end walls), by cutting and pasting the overall final design onto the card.