Product Design: Bridging Unit In order to prepare for the quantity and quality of work needed during your Product Design A-level, you need to undertake some research work prior to next September. The specification states that: Students should be aware of, and be able to discuss, the work of influential designers and how their work represents the principles of different design movements, including: • Philippe Starck • James Dyson • Margaret Calvert • Dieter Rams • Charles and Ray Eames • Marianne Brandt (The different design movements could include the arts and craft movement, Art Deco, Modernism e.g. Bauhaus, Post-modernism e.g. Memphis)

Product Design: Bridging Unit Task: In your sketch books produce a page on each of the influential designers detailing their design style, pictorial examples of their work annotated with how their work represents the design movement they most represent. Note: If you produce the pages on a computer they will need to be stuck into your sketch book so you should leave a 2cm border around your work to allow for trimming the page to stick it in. The summary should be in your own words rather than blocks of copied text.

Product Design: Bridging Unit Task: Below is a typical exam question from A level Paper 2. Using your designer research, answer the question in your sketch book: Dieter Rams states that ‘good design is understandable’. Use a specific product example to explain what is meant by this. [3 marks]

All work to be handed in during the lesson/sign in session on the first day back in September ie Tues 4th September.