1. What is design? What is a designer? What makes a good design?
Looking at Design
What is design?
What is a designer?
What makes a good design?

2. We will look at the following websites
Look at the exhibition ‘a century of chairs’
Find a chair you like from history
Record some information about it, including the name of the chair, when it was made and who the designer was.
Save a picture for your books
TASK 1 – design the perfect chair for one of the following activities:
Watching TV, doing homework, eating or reading a book

3. Homework http://www.designsoak.com/
What is different about the designs on this website?
Pick a fun design that makes you smile.
Print pictures to include in your sketchbooks.
Think of a crazy way to use one object for a very different use –
Like a gun BBQ, a desk bed, a diary that tells you the time – use your imaginations to come up with crazy combinations!
Draw your design in full colour