Subject: Technology – Graphic Products/Product design

HoD – Hayley Hood.

Half Term / Year 7 / Year 8
1
Autumn / Book cover project:
Introduction to Graphic Design.
Using typography to connote meaning.
Making and using a colour wheel.
Using a colour wheel to create colour palettes.
Analyse existing book covers for ghost stories.
Design and make a prototype book cover. / Technical Drawing project:
Principles of isometric drawing.
Creating simple letterforms in isometric.
Rendering.
Principles of 2-point perspective drawing.
Using crating to create complex shapes.
Draw a street scene in 2-point perspective.
2
Autumn / Packaging project (part 1):
Uses of packaging.
Life cycle analysis.
Sustainability and the environment.
Renewable and non-renewable sources of paper and board.
Writing a design brief.
Producing a working specification / Festival project (branding and promotion) part 1:
Identifying a target user.
How do festivals promote themselves?
Interpret a design brief and rewrite to suit own users needs.
Create moodboard.
Analyse existing examples of festival branding.
Producing a working specification.
Christmas Break
3
Spring / Packaging project (part 2):
Designing and testing nets.
Producing suitable design ideas.
Testing ideas against specification.
Creating a final idea
Evaluation of success. / Festival project (branding and promotion) part 2:
Design and make a ticket holder using branding.
Explore the work of Deborah Sussman (LA Olympics)
How can we use graphic design in the built environment?
Present ideas and evaluate success.
4
Spring / Introduction into the workshop/ Key tag:
Understand the health and safety rules of the workshop.
Introduction to the tools and equipment in the workshop.
Understanding what a design brief is and what it is used for.
Create a range of ideas.
Manufacture final solution. / Picture frame project:
Identifying the target market.
Analysing existing products and identifying key features that make them with successful or a failure.
Create a detail specification.
Create a range of creative ideas, fully annotated to match the success criteria.
Manufacture the picture frame using a range of techniques.
Easter Break
5
Summer / Pine pencil holder project:
Designing for a target market.
Understanding hardwoods and softwoods
Creating a design brief.
Understanding what a specification is used for and creating a specification.
Producing a range of creative ideas.
Analyzing basic wood construction joints.
Manufacturing final idea.
Evaluate creative work. / Passive speaker/Acrylic desk tidy project:
Understanding thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics.
Sustainability and environmental design: Plastics.
How do passive speakers work? Problem solving.
Designing for a target market.
Creating a detailed, measurable specification.
Creating a range of innovative design ideas, with full annotation.
Manufacture of the product using a range of skills.
Evaluation of the make, identifying where improvements can be made during the practical process.
6
Summer / Night light Project:
Design and make a night light.
Explore the work of the Memphis Movement.
Analyse existing examples of night lights.
Create a range of ideas based on the Memphis movement theme.
Evaluate ideas against the specification.
Manufacture the night light.
Evaluation of success / Clock Project:
Design and make a night light.
Explore the work of the Bauhaus Movement.
Analyse existing examples of clocks.
Create a range of innovative ideas based on the Bauhaus movement theme.
Evaluate ideas against the specification.
Manufacture the clock.
Evaluation of success