Connect

Sort the images for a ‘cool wall’

Sharing new information

In pairs:• Chose a product from the images on your table.• Discuss why you think it is ‘sub zero’, ‘cool’or ‘un-cool’.• Write your explanation under the product.• Explain your decision to the group.• Place it on our cool wall

Literacy: speaking and listening skills

Searching for meaning

Sketching and rendering techniques

Draw the object in front of you and try these out:• Fine liner-do not remove your pen from the paper until you have finished drawing the object• Marker pens to render and create backgrounds• Thick and thin line technique• Mark making to create different tones and textures• Draw on different types of paper

Demonstrating understanding

What makes a product ‘cool’?In teams:Make a list

Look at the Alessi productsCool? Or un-cool?

Choose a productRe-design itMake it cool !

Learning outcomes:A. sophisticated, elegant solutions showingexcellent and varied communication skills.B. Wide range of imaginative and feasible ideascommunicated competently.C. A range of feasible ideas drawn clearly.

Literacy: use subject specific terminology

Reviewing your learning

• List 2 things you have learnt this lesson• Share these with your team• What is the most important thing your team has learnt?

Homework

To be completed for your first lesson in September

• Complete the design you started today 

• Complete a study of a famous product designer. The study should include; key dates, where they work/who for, what they have designed, your opinions of their work and what you think has inspired or influenced them.

• Complete an analysis of one of your chosen designer’s products.

• Redesign the product you have analysed (a wide range of sketches using different media)

• Final design drawing of your product

Literacy: speaking and listening skills