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Young Furniture Makers Exhibition 2024

Young Furniture Makers Exhibition 2024, The Young Furniture Makers Exhibition is set to return to the City of London on 2 October 2024, providing a unique platform for aspiring designer-makers to showcase their talents. Organised by The Furniture Makers’ Company, this one-day event will highlight the innovative work of students from GCSE level to recent graduates, connecting them with industry professionals eager to discover fresh design talent. This year's exhibition will feature the Young Furniture Maker Awards, which serve as the student equivalent of the...

Designing 91 PDF Copy

Designing 91 PDF Copy, Designing magazine is a showcase for excellence in design across all phases of education, from primary schools to universities, and in commercial and industrial design. Its regular features include interviews with top designers in product design, architecture, engineering, fashion design, food, etc and includes examples of the best work taking place in schools in the UK and across the world. Designing is an inspiration to all budding designers, as well as being informative and challenging in the ideas it includes. Published...

Designer's Toolkit for Children

Designer's Toolkit for Children, First published 2012 This document considers the creative process of designing that has proved to be so rewarding for children, encouraging them to think explicitly about the tools they use during their designing and making process. It provides a guide to using and applying designing tools and prompting pupils to ask the right questions and consider both getting started with design and working out ideas under the following headings: Asking questions Looking at products Design criteria Looking for...

Pylon Flight

Pylon Flight, A free resource to allow Key Stage 4 students to learn how aircraft fly and use digital design and manufacturing tools to design, make and fly their own powered aircraft. Flight can be a challenging, technically rich and fun D&T activity. The principles of flight are well documented but will need to be interpreted for students at an appropriate level when designing, making and testing designs for aircraft. This set of resources contains detailed information on the principles of flight, propellers and...

Cultural Cushions

Cultural Cushions, Cultural Cushions Year 8This resource has been kindly provided by Emma Gregory of Manningtree High School, in association with her article in D&T Practice 2.2015. It includes a scheme of work and two PowerPoint presentations. It comprises 12-16 one-hour lessons to design and make a culturally inspired cushion suitable to be mass produced.

Upcycling

Upcycling, First published 2012 This resource is a great way of reusing old products that would normally be thrown away and to raise students’ awareness of upcycling waste products in an innovative and enterprising way. It considers the themes of sustainability and enterprise – designing, making and marketing desirable, quality products from recycled materials. Most children at some point have made a puppet out of an old sock or a rocket or car out of an old kitchen roll, plastic milk bottle etc. The aim of this project is to take that concept...

LSBU’s “Product of South Bank” Graduate Showcase

LSBU’s “Product of South Bank” Graduate Showcase, This week, London South Bank University (LSBU) proudly welcomed guests to The Product of South Bank, its much-anticipated annual graduate showcase celebrating the work of final-year students from Product Design and Engineering Product Design, alongside select projects from across the School of Engineering. The exhibition launched with a private view on Wednesday evening (4 June), where visitors had the first look at a range of innovative student work. Highlights included basketball trainers with replaceable soles, watches made from recycled coffee grounds, and...

Using and understanding 3D printers in schools - Key Resources

Using and understanding 3D printers in schools - Key Resources, Using and understanding 3D printers in schoolsAges 11-14 yearsFirst published 20143D printers are fast becoming commonplace in rapid prototyping and manufacturing and are proving to be essential tools for testing and realising designs in product design. Since the introduction of stereo-lithography in the 1980s the idea of being able to print out designs from CAD programmes and scanned images has captured the imagination of people in the design industry and wider world. Recent technological developments...

Heat transfer project

Heat transfer project, First published 2013 The Heat Transfer Project contains two activities for with cross-curricular links to Science asking Year 9 students to investigate materials that are most suitable for fast food packaging, and learn more about how a vacuum flask works. The project consists of two main activities: Hot Potatoes! A Science based activity where students make predictions, carry out an experiment, analyse results and make conclusions about which materials are most suitable for fast food packaging and apply this information to a design task....

Get Organised: 3D Textiles - Key Resource download copy

Get Organised: 3D Textiles - Key Resource download copy, Ages 11-14 yearsFirst published 2010 Based on non-woven textiles and linked to CAD/CAM and graphics, this offers inspiration and practical advice to design and make 3D containers. Design inspiration comes from the work of Hepworth, Gaudi and others, and teachers are free to adapt the work to suit the locality or students’ interest. The resource contains pdf and PowerPoint slides on: Overview Teachers’ notes Applying ‘structures’ with ideas for a design brief...

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