HGS Product Design
Course Overview
This course will encourage you to take a broad view of Product Design, to develop your capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing. Product design encompasses a wide range of design disciplines but is firmly rooted in the skills required to design and make high quality products. Design studies will focus on the work of past designers, design movements of the 20th Century and contemporary design. The new specification will also draw upon your knowledge of Science and Mathematics
Course Content
Product Design at HGS
At HGS we will help you to develop a range of ICT skills using industry standard software (Photoshop, Illustrator and AutoDesk inventor) and practical skills in the workshop. You will choose a number of modules ranging from 3D products, packaging designs, promotional merchandise, branding, and environments through to architectural scale models of buildings, to best suit your intended path into Design/Product Design/Engineering. A range of outcomes in year 12 that are fit for purpose, satisfy wants and needs, and enhance our daily lives, will demonstrate your creativity and growing ability, and will prepare you for the non-exam assessment (coursework) in year 13.
Course Entry Requirements
5 or above at GCSE
Course Specification
AQA 7552
https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/design-and-technology/specifications/AQA-7552-SP-2017.PDF
Homework
At A Level, students are expected to complete a minimum of 5 hours of study a week on top of their allocated lesson time.