Ms Ts Year 7 DT Blog

Saturday, 14 February 2015

Product Design Mobile Shop Competition

Take a look at the website for RIBA and the competition details.

In lesson this week you read through the design brief above and answered questions.

Then you completed research of existing product like the example above (pop up and mobile shops)

Homework Research Typography and colour scheme for your mobile shop due back 2nd lesson after half term (for most of you that will be Wednesday 25th Feb or Thursday 26th Feb)

Typography for this mobile beauty parlour is sanserif, bold, capitals, slim which suggest it is modern and yet classy. The colour scheme is bright pink, black and white. The pink suggests fun and feminine and the black suggests mystery and wealth.

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Keywords in Design Technology

situation - This is the problem.
design brief - A clear description of the problem that needs to be solved.
research - To find out facts.
analysis - Things found out from facts and information gathered.
specification - What a product has to do, look like and how it should work.
ideas - Thoughts that will help solve the problem.evaluation - A way of judging how successful something is.
developing - A more detailed description of how something is to be made, e.g. how it will look and work.
modelling - A small example of something, showing how it will look and work.
planning - Sometimes using a flow diagram, it shows the steps needed to make something.
realisation - The making of something.
modification - Changes made.
product - The thing made.
materials - The items needed to make something.
components - Anything that forms part of a whole system or thing, e.g. a buzzer in an electric circuit.