Design history informs the present
The brief:
Assessment Task 1:
Produce a research report and presentation on your investigations on 4 individual design innovators from a range of Art and Design movements.
Investigations on individual design innovators could be conducted on the basis of the following criteria:
WHO - is/was the designer/design company?
WHAT – kind of items or artifacts do/did they design?
WHEN – did they design these items?
WHERE – do/did they live and/or operate their design practice?
WHY – did they design the way they did? What else was going on at the time that might have influenced the development of their design work (i.e. social, cultural, political environmental and/or other influences)?
HOW – do/did they challenge existing conventions at the time they undertook their designs?
Assessment Task 2:
Apply and generate design solutions using researched history and theory of design – create a design product influenced by the style for one of the following for each of your chosen designers that you have investigated.
Example: Designer 1: After your research report on the design innovator create a design for either (only one) a:
brochure / flyer
advertising poster
business logo
web page design
that is influenced by that designers signature style.
Example for Designer 2 – 4 the same applies.
You would place each of the designs with the content of each design innovator you have researched in the Interactive Digital Portfolio
Assessment Task 3:
Design Research Diary - Each of the 4 designs that you have created based on you selected ‘design innovators’ has to be accompanied by a Design Research Diary that will log and reflect the systematic organisation of the researched material for easy access to the information and for its application into a practice. This includes the use of websites (URLs), diagrams, charts, files, scrapbooks, diaries, mind maps, sketches and illustrations – The Design Research Diary can just be a text document listing websites and other online resources you have visited placed inside a folder with any images or scanned schematic designs you have drawn or developed.
Produce a research report and presentation on your investigations on 4 individual design innovators from a range of Art and Design movements.
Investigations on individual design innovators could be conducted on the basis of the following criteria:
WHO - is/was the designer/design company?
WHAT – kind of items or artifacts do/did they design?
WHEN – did they design these items?
WHERE – do/did they live and/or operate their design practice?
WHY – did they design the way they did? What else was going on at the time that might have influenced the development of their design work (i.e. social, cultural, political environmental and/or other influences)?
HOW – do/did they challenge existing conventions at the time they undertook their designs?
Assessment Task 2:
Apply and generate design solutions using researched history and theory of design – create a design product influenced by the style for one of the following for each of your chosen designers that you have investigated.
Example: Designer 1: After your research report on the design innovator create a design for either (only one) a:
brochure / flyer
advertising poster
business logo
web page design
that is influenced by that designers signature style.
Example for Designer 2 – 4 the same applies.
You would place each of the designs with the content of each design innovator you have researched in the Interactive Digital Portfolio
Assessment Task 3:
Design Research Diary - Each of the 4 designs that you have created based on you selected ‘design innovators’ has to be accompanied by a Design Research Diary that will log and reflect the systematic organisation of the researched material for easy access to the information and for its application into a practice. This includes the use of websites (URLs), diagrams, charts, files, scrapbooks, diaries, mind maps, sketches and illustrations – The Design Research Diary can just be a text document listing websites and other online resources you have visited placed inside a folder with any images or scanned schematic designs you have drawn or developed.
I have absolutely no idea if I did correctly. But I have it my best.
