Course Introduction
The product design Specification has been designed to encourage you to take a broad view of Design Technology, to develop your capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relationship between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.
3D Product Design is intended to reflect the wide-ranging activities of professional designers and covers a wide range of materials. The written papers only test the core content of the specification, but other materials such as ceramics textiles electronics and mechanisms can be used to produce exciting coursework outcomes.
The Product Design course contains a section on Communication Methods. Graphics are an integral part of any design Technology work. It is vitally important that you can communicate your thinking clearly and represent your ideas graphically, this can be in the form of sketches, CAD images, sketch models etc. This section of the course can provide opportunities for more graphically focused students to expand their coursework in this direction, but it must be noted that all project work requires a three dimensional outcome.
Course Aims
Design Technology offers you an opportunity to gain personal satisfaction and a positive experience from working with a variety of materials. The practical problem solving processes in this course will encourage independent learning, creativity and innovation.
You are encouraged to;
a. Develop and maintain your own innovation, creativity and design & technology capability,to regognise constraints and to produce high quality products;
b. Develop an understanding of the influences of the processes and products of design & technological activity from a historical perspective and in current practice;
c. Apply understanding and skills of design production processes to a range of technological activities and develop an understanding of industrial practices;
d. Use ICT to enhance your design & technological capability;
e. Develop critical evaluation skills in technical, aesthetic, ethical, economic, environmental social and cultural contexts;
f. Develop as discerning consumers able too make informed choices.
The product design Specification has been designed to encourage you to take a broad view of Design Technology, to develop your capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relationship between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.
3D Product Design is intended to reflect the wide-ranging activities of professional designers and covers a wide range of materials. The written papers only test the core content of the specification, but other materials such as ceramics textiles electronics and mechanisms can be used to produce exciting coursework outcomes.
The Product Design course contains a section on Communication Methods. Graphics are an integral part of any design Technology work. It is vitally important that you can communicate your thinking clearly and represent your ideas graphically, this can be in the form of sketches, CAD images, sketch models etc. This section of the course can provide opportunities for more graphically focused students to expand their coursework in this direction, but it must be noted that all project work requires a three dimensional outcome.
Course Aims
Design Technology offers you an opportunity to gain personal satisfaction and a positive experience from working with a variety of materials. The practical problem solving processes in this course will encourage independent learning, creativity and innovation.
You are encouraged to;
a. Develop and maintain your own innovation, creativity and design & technology capability,to regognise constraints and to produce high quality products;
b. Develop an understanding of the influences of the processes and products of design & technological activity from a historical perspective and in current practice;
c. Apply understanding and skills of design production processes to a range of technological activities and develop an understanding of industrial practices;
d. Use ICT to enhance your design & technological capability;
e. Develop critical evaluation skills in technical, aesthetic, ethical, economic, environmental social and cultural contexts;
f. Develop as discerning consumers able too make informed choices.
