1. A531 2. DESIGNING 1. CREATIVITY 4. EVALUATION 3. MAKING
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A531
Introduction to
designing & making
1. CREATIVITY
2. DESIGNING
THEME 2
THEME 3 3.
MAKING
4. EVALUATION
AssessmentSheet

2. THEME 1 HOME Theme: Promotional Item
Starting Point: Select a specific event to promote: make sure that it is something you are interested in. Design & Make a freebie/give-away item that could be a calendar, pop-up mailer, direct mail or other 3D item to promote your chosen event.
Ideas: A concert/gig, music festival, play or musical, art exhibition, sporting event, fundraising event, carnival, circus, Christmas market etc.
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3. THEME 2 HOME Theme: Retail Environment
Starting Point: Choose a specific product or scheme (such as Fairtrade) to base your project around; be sure to select something that interests you. Find out about in-store promotional items such as point-of-sale displays, counter-top unit, shelf wobblers, hanging mobiles etc. Design & Make an item or range of items to promote your chosen product or scheme within a retail environment.
Ideas: Film, DVD, CD, computer game, mobile phone/device, chocolate bar, fragrance, beauty product, Fairtrade, Sport Relief, Recycle Now etc.
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4. THEME 3 HOME Theme: Food & Drink
Starting Point: A new café or take away requires packaging for a their range of fast food products. The packaging needs to be flat-packed for transport/storage and recyclable. It could be for a hot or cold food item, or drink.
Ideas: Sandwich/panini/bagel,wrap packaging, salad box, cake box, pastry packaging, burger box, fries packaging, noodle packaging, tiffin boxes etc.
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6. CREATIVITY
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Product Research
Task Analysis
User Research
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7. TASK Analysis 1. CREATIVITY TASKS: TA Drafting Example NEXT HOME
Go through your chosen design situation and underline all the keywords.
Complete the drafting sheet. Write a list of everything you know about the design situation and things you’ll need to find out under the headings: WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? & HOW?
Create your background template on PowerPoint including relevant images, headings and personal details: name, candidate number, school name and centre number.
Write up your drafting sheet in best including the key details outlined in the template sheet.
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8. ★ DESIGN BRIEF & TASK ANALYSIS ★
Introduction
On this page is my design brief and task analysis. This will help me to plan the research for my project and make sure that I fully understand what I have been asked to do.
Summary
Research Needed
Who?
I will be designing for two different groups of people: the baristas in the café who will need to store packaging and put it together and the customers who will buy the food inside it.
Product disassembly of existing products; Questionnaire of target users.
What?
I could design and make a number of different types of packaging that could include packaging for hot and cold drinks, cakes & biscuits, sandwiches, hot foods.
Product analysis of existing packaging.
When?
Take away packaging is usually used only once and then disposed of. It could be used for breakfast, lunch or dinner food.
Questionnaire or interview with target users: customers and baristas.
Where?
Take away packaging is stored in the shop or café and will then be filled with food and given to the customer. They may take it home, put it in a fridge, microwave it and eventually throw it away.
Visit a café or take away, interview a barista or staff member.
Why?
Lots of take away packaging is blamed for littering and is not very good for the environment. New packaging could be more sustainable.
Examine existing packaging
How?
Packaging is usually all the same for the same product. It could be more interesting by being reusable, easy to carry, include smart materials that relate to temperature.
Examine packaging from other sources, internet research into smart materials.
Design Situation
I have chosen the theme of Food & Drink. A new café or take-away requires packaging for their range of fast food products. The packaging needs to be flat-packed for transport/storage and recyclable. It could be for a hot or cold food item, or drink.
A range of different people will use the cafés, however those most likely to use take-away services will be adults who work in the town. This group of people will be buying a coffee on the way to work or collecting food in a short lunch break.
Target Users
The users of take-away products need the packaging to protect the product, be light, be secure, keep hot products hot and be easy and safe to use. The café will need the packaging items to be easy to store, cheap to produce and easy to construct (eg. coffee cup and lid).
Initial Ideas
Initially I think that it would be quite interesting to create packaging for a range of hot food in a café. I would like to think about hot sandwiches such as paninis as this will give me a good challenge. Lots of cafés currently serve hot sandwiches in unsuitably thin packaging therefore there is a need for this to be improved.
Images: Wikipedia; thegreenorchard.co.uk
Conclusion
Now that I have completed my task analysis I am definitely keen to look at sandwich packaging for cafés. I now need to look at some examples of existing sandwich packaging to see what is already on the market and find out what people need sandwich packaging to be like.
Name: Miss Longman Candidate No: 1234 Centre: The Romsey School No: 58263

9. PRODUCT 1. CREATIVITY Research TASKS: NEXT HOME
Collect (at least 2) existing examples of similar products to analyse in detail. These must be real products that you can examine (not just pictures from the internet)
Choose two DIFFERENT items and take photos of them
You must write about the good and bad aspects of each design under the following sub-headings: Size & Shape, Surface Graphics, Materials & Manufacture, User Needs, Sustainability, Performance.
You should then gather feedback from 3-4 other people for each product and record their comments.
Product Research
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10. USER Research 1. CREATIVITY TASKS: NEXT HOME
Think about the sorts of people that will come into contact with your product. (This will likely be more than one group of people e.g. in a shop customers & staff will interact with a product in different ways)
Create a survey or interview questions that will help you to answer key questions about the user needs.
Analyse the results of your survey (through charts & graphs) and/or interview (through a summary paragraph)
Write a summary list of ‘Points to Carry Forward.’
User Research
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11. Design Brief & Specification
DESIGNING
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Design Ideas
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Design Brief & Specification
Design Development
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12. DESIGN 2. DESIGNING TASKS: Brief & Specification NEXT HOME
Look back at your research and make a decision about the product you will make.
You should write yourself a design brief that gives yourself instructions about your project based on your research. For example: “Design & Make packaging that would be suitable for take-away Indian food. It must be flat- packable, easy for the staff and customers to use and should keep the food hot. It would also be good if people could easily eat from it.”
Write a ‘Design Specification’ for your product. This will be a bullet point list of things that your design MUST, SHOULD & COULD do. For each point on your list you should explain why it is important and highlight your explanation in red. Categories: Function, Target Users, Aesthetics, Ergonomics, Quality, Safety, Size/Weight, Materials, Production, Sustainability, Moral Issues, Cultural Issues, Performance, Cost.
DB & Spec
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13. DESIGN 2. DESIGNING TASKS: Ideas (2 pages) NEXT HOME
Draw 8-10 designs for the shape and size of your product over 2 A3 pages. Your designs must be drawn in Isometric. Make sure that you show how your design will be assembled and how it will open and close (if appropriate).
Add Thick & Thin Line technique to your designs.
Number your designs.
Annotate each of your designs. You must compare each design idea to your specification in terms of: User needs, sustainability, manufacture, materials & their properties, size & weight. Write about the good points in green pen and the bad points in red pen.
Design Ideas
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14. DESIGN 2. DESIGNING Development TASKS: NEXT HOME
Choose your 2 best designs to put forward for peer development.
Fold a piece of A4 paper into 6 sections. Unfold it and turn it landscape. Copy your 2 chosen designs onto the left. Add annotation.
Pass the paper around in your group and ask other people to sketch & annotate suggestions for variations/improvements to your designs.
Write a paragraph about the peer suggestions for each of your designs; review the good/bad suggestions and how you could use them.
Explain which design you’ll choose to carry forward and why.
Development
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15. Surface Graphics Development Production Plan & Diary
MAKING
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Product Modelling
Final Design Proposal
Surface Graphics Development
Final Product
Production Plan & Diary
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16. PRODUCT 3. Modelling MAKING TASKS: NEXT HOME
Draw a net for your chosen design on 2D Design V2. Use red for the cut lines and black for the score lines. Make sure there aren’t any overlapping or ‘double’ lines. Take a screen shot.
Cut out a model on the laser cutter. Make it and take a photo.
Make any improvements needed to your net, cut it out again and make a second model. Take another photo.
Complete a problems and improvements table to explain what changes you make to your model and why.
Add an introduction and conclusion.
Modelling
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17. FINAL 3. Design MAKING Proposal TASKS: NEXT HOME
Complete a drawing of your final design on Sketch Up.
Export 2D images from different views of your Sketch Up drawing. (If necessary add extra features such as text, logos etc on Photoshop).
Add dimensions to your design to show the proposed size.
Add a table or paragraph that gives full details of your proposed design, including: materials, key features (of surface graphics), manufacturing processes, estimated cost.
Final Proposal
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18. SURFACE 3. MAKING Graphics Development TASKS: NEXT HOME
Export your net from 2D design as a JPEG and open it in Photoshop.
Add your surface graphics to the net using a wide variety of tools.
TAKE SCREENSHOTS of the development of your surface graphics and keep them in a Powerpoint.
Add each screenshot to the next page of your project and under it explain the tools you have used and why. Use the correct names.
SG development
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19. PRODUCTION 3. MAKING TASKS: Plan & Diary NEXT HOME
Make a table with the following headings: Stage of Making (time needed & safety checks); Equipment; Materials; Quality Checks; Production Diary.
Complete the table using the descriptions below as guidance:
Stages of Making – list the things you need to do to make your product in order
Safety Checks – what can you do to make sure you are working safely?
Quality Checks – what can you do to make sure that your product is high quality and accurate?
Production Diary – a record of what you did with screenshots/photographic evidence. Notes must include the problems you had and solutions you came up with.
Plan & Diary
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20. EVALUATION
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Evaluation
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21. EVALUATION 4. EVALUATION TASKS: Of Process HOME
Make a 3x3 table with the top headings ‘Evaluation of Processes’ and ‘Reflections & Modifications’. Down the left have the headings ‘Designing’ and ‘Making’.
Write a critical evaluation of the designing part of your project that covers: Design Specification, Initial Designs, Design Development, Final Design.
Write a critical evaluation of the making part of your project that covers: modelling, surface graphics development, manufacturing processes, production plan & diary.
For both the designing & making sections suggest improvements/modifications that you could make to the PROCESSES.
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