Design Elements
You are going to be looking at a variety of Design Elements and Principles and what they are. You are then doing to be applying that knowledge to the work of your chosen architect.
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Design Terminology
You will be expected to use design terminology a lot during your design work in DVC.
Illustrate each word with a picture of your choice. This picture must visually explain what the word means.
Then write a short written explanation of the design term.
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Making the Design Elements
Applying Design Terms
In this section of work, you are going to look at the photographs of the architects work and do some sketches and models from them using a wide variety of different media.
These sketches have to focus in on particular design features of the buildings that you think apply to the design terms you have been looking at in the previous exercise.
The reason why you are going to make and draw the design elements as they are shown in your Architect's work is so that you can have a deeper understanding of them. You are then going to use this understanding when you start the design ideas for your product design project.
Here are some of the things that you will be doing
Form
3D forms made in plasticine.
3D drawings, shaded, in pencil
3D line drawings in pen
Pattern and Texture
Rubbings on surfaces using oil pastels and sugar paper
Repeat patterns using clear plastic and black fibre tipped pen
Press printing using EVA foam and printing ink
Colour, Shape and Line
Painted colour wheel
Shape and line drawn and cut onto EVA foam, and press printed with printing ink
Pencil and pen shape drawings in 2D
Form
Element of Design: Form
Form is very similar to the element of design shape. The difference is that the term is form is used in art work that has three dimensions instead of two as shapes. The three dimensions are length, width and depth. Link to source
Step 1
Look at your collection of images
Make some of the forms that you can see in plasticine.
Photograph your plasticine models.
Put the photographs on a Google Doc and share it with your teacher.
Print out your model photographs.
Step 2
Cut out your plasticine / card form pictures and stick them onto this page.
Make sure you space them out to give yourself room for sketches and notes.
Step 3
Use drawing pencil, white, brown and black pencils and black pen to draw what you see in the photographs of your models.
Draw in 3D and use shading to describe the form.
Write notes in bullet point format to DESCRIBE what you see.
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Example showing which buildings were the main influence.
Pattern
Element of Design: Pattern
A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface.
Look at the patterns on the right.
What do they all have in common?
How are they different?
What are the key important things that make a pattern?
Pattern
Look at the photographs of your architects work. Find some small areas of them that you can trace.
Trace the small design elements from the photographs using the clear plastic and black pen.
Reverse / turn over the plastic and rub onto paper using the back of your thumb to transfer the tracing.
Repeat the same tracing multiple time to create a pattern.
Use the pattern sheet on the left as a guide - you can create patterns that look different by repeating the same thing in lots of different ways and directions.