Design For Life

Evening. Make sure you check out this new series tonight (and every Monday night at 9.00PM) on BBC 2. It is an apprentice type competition with Phillipe Stark but all about Product Design- epic and right up your street!!!! I am sure it will be on the i-player so you can catch up on it if you've got a social life- unlike me!!

Fresh from the BBC website-

"In an effort to find a new generation of British design talent, Philippe Starck, one of the world's best known product designers, invites 12 hopefuls to a school of design he has set up in Paris. Over coming weeks he will whittle them down until one fortunate student wins the opportunity of a lifetime - to work alongside the master for six months at his agency in the French capital.

Ranging from unemployed retail worker Jess to college lecturer Ilsa, the students meet Starck for the first time and discover what a larger than life character he is. And they face their first challenge - to head to a local hypermarket and find examples of good and bad design. When they explain their thinking to Starck he critiques them and selects the weakest five for a further nerve-wracking test. When it's over the group of 12 is now 10 and the school of design can begin in earnest."

Peace

Influential Design

Yes 12e. How is it? Right, the next project is due in on the 29th of September. It is all about how design from the past has an influence on our design today. Check out the details below;

• You are required to work as a pair to design and manufacture a concept model of a ‘scaled down’ child’s chair, influenced by a designer in an era of your choice.
• The only specification is that you must design the chair so that it can be flat packed and be designed for the mass market.
• You are required to produce a mini e-portfolio that demonstrates your understanding of the chosen designers work and the era in which he, she or even a group of designers worked in.
• You must show how your concepts have been derived through the use of the influence.
• You must create a CAD illustration as a virtual prototype.
• You must display how you have used modelling to assist in your development of the design.
• The concept model must be produced using 3mm Acrylic and should slot together with out the need of adhesive.

Assessment

• 10 marks awarded for your design work and the influence used.
• This must be posted on your Blog.
• 10 marks are awarded for the use of modelling.
• 10 marks are awarded for the quality of your CAD illustration.
• 10 marks are awarded for the use of the CAM.
• 10 marks are awarded for the team work and also the completed model.

I would also advise you to look at Will Veritys Blog to look at an example of the portfolio work we want you to produce. That's it for now, enjoy.

Back with a BANG!!

Here we are. Back, fresh and ready to go. Blogs are the future!!

I have found some new sites for you check out. They include; http://www.intute.ac.uk/. This is a top research site and loads of uni researchers have done all the hard work for you, looking at a variety of sites that are useful to the subject you are working on. It looks pretty good and having quickly looked through it, the sites are real good.