Design Analysis Exercises

You are going to be working through some exercises together to get you used to reading and writing analysis of chair designs.

Exercise 1 - Reading and Understanding

Click here to get a copy of the analysis exercise

Use this poster to help you. Pick out the literacy elements from the poster that you can see in this example.

This poster is also up on the back wall of the classroom.

Exercise 2 - Reading and Using the Information

Reads the information on these links.

Material Categories and Properties

Natural woods

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Write a description of this chair using the paragraph template that you have made a copy of.

Write about the materials that it could be made from and the reasons you think those material choices are good ones.

Exercise 3 - Product Analysis

Use this template to analyse example of the product you are going to design. Put a picture of your product on the left and answer the questions in the coloured boxes.