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Design Agency Life, Echo Brand Design, An amazing afternoon with Echo Brand Design offering a fantastic industry experience for a small group of teachers. Take a look at what these teachers experienced and took away to help advise young people about the careers open to them in the creative industry. There is more to a design agency than designers... Echo Blueprint Case Study Echo Brand Design, an independent brand design, innovation, and sustainability agency in London of 20 people, joined Blueprint 1000® in November 2021 with a couple...
Product Design Mid KS3 Y8 Design and Make - Table centrepiece, Product Design Mid KS3 Year 8 - Design and Make – Table centrepieceStudent design and make 'anything that is used within the context of a table’, ranging from methods of illumination, condiment and menu holders, vases or bud holders, interactive products such as children's games. While making is optional, the open brief allows students to develop a design specification for a particular user and context. Includes scenario and function cards and video designing guides.This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has been fully...
Design Waves pack of six, Design Waves A series of teaching resources exploring influential design movements and the context in which they emerged. First Published 2016 Ages 14-18 This set of six PowerPoint based resources is intended to provide KS4/5 students with a background knowledge of different design movements, the context and conditions from which they emerged, examples of their output and the influences they have had upon other designers and movements in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Some of the movements are more closely aligned with the arts but have nevertheless had considerable influence...
Rebecca Topps at Bulletproof Design, The night before, the nerves are kicking in along with the realisation that I had not stepped into the design world for over twelve years. Bulletproof is a design agency who help brands grow through powerful sensory brand worlds, intelligent branding and guardianship, inspiring packaging design and more. They have worked with brands all over the world and have offices in four countries. Would they expect me to be amazing at Photoshop? Or be able to sketch twenty different ideas in minutes? All these thoughts raced through my mind! I hit...
Food Early KS3Y7 Design and Make - Design for Health, D&T Key ResourcesFood Early KS3 – Design and Make Design for health – 5 hoursFirst published 2015; updated 2016 Producing a healthier meal aimed at teenagers. In this students investigate factors affecting food choices before designing and making a meal suitable for a teenager. They consider factors such as the importance of a balanced diet, cost, availability, cultural and religious practices and health concerns. Practical lessons include making a stir fry, a curry and kofta before working independently on their final choice of meal....
Programmable Control Open Design Brief, Programmable Control Open Design Brief Ages 13-15First published 2018 The subject content for the GCSE in D&T requires pupils to know and understand: how electronic systems provide functionality to products and processes, including sensors and control devices to respond to a variety of inputs, and devices to produce a range of outputs the use of programmable components to embed functionality into products in order to enhance and customise their operation This resource is designed to support teachers new to programmable control and embedded intelligence. It introduces...
Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design, Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design This resource has been developed with the Intellectual Property Office to help teachers and students to understand the implications of IP in product design. It consist of five PowerPoint classroom teaching presentations and associated materials that schools can use and adapt, in which the students develop their ideas and realise the importance of securing the intellectual property, and two videos outlining IP and the associated 'business days' that schools can deliver in which students’ innovative design ideas, produced using smart...
Design and Technology National Curriculum for England, To support schools the Design and Technology Association provides training, advice, information, and guidance regarding the National Curriculum Design and Technology Programmes of Study introduced in September 2014, we have produced a number of resources, and will continue to, including some developed in collaboration with the National Curriculum Expert Group for Design and Technology. During the National Curriculum review the Department for Education (DfE) set up the Expert Group. This was given the task of advising the DfE on implementation and worked closely with the Design...
Design and make a 'bird' themed souvenir, Souvenir Bird ProjectTextilesAge range 5-7First published 2014 This outlines a project undertaken in one school in which children designed and made a realistic felt souvenir bird to be sold in a shop at a wetlands centre. It includes researching and designing according to the six D&T essentials, focused tasks and design and evaluation worksheets. Children were introduced to the wetlands centre and the idea of selling souvenirs to help raise money. It allowed them to take on the responsible role of designer, thinking about the purpose and...
Bird Hide Design and Make Challenge, Bird Hide Design and Make ChallengeAge 9-11 yearsYears 5/6First published 2011 The focus of this unit is on structures and enterprise. It explores and extends children’s knowledge of structures through the brief of designing and making a small scale bird hide. It investigates the use of simple joining methods to creating frameworks with art straws, dowel and square section wood. Through this brief the children are challenged to show their enterprise and speaking and listening skills by having to pitch their final models in a presentation to a ‘Dragons’ Den’ of...
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