Designs of the Future Competition

Designs of the Future Competition 2008
This is a prestigious competition and you should all consider entering this as well as the Young Designer competition. Read all about it using the links below!
The Brit Insurance Designs of the Future National Student Competition is run jointly by the Design Museum and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.
This competition is open to all design students in Years 10 - 13 taking GCSE or post-16 design courses within Design & Technology or Art & Design subject areas. Linked to the Design Museum’s ground-breaking industry award exhibition Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, this competition aims to develop innovative concepts and ideas to increase young designers’ awareness enthusiasm for design.
The competition is in 7 categories Transport, Graphic, Interactive, Product, Furniture, Fashion and Architecture. Inspiration can be drawn from the museums website www.designmuseum.org. This year 100 students will be selected for the title and invited to attend an awards ceremony at the Design Museum.

The closing date is Friday 18 July 2008. To find out more logon to the SSAT website or visit the Design Museum website: http://designmuseum.org/education/design-challenges
http://designmuseum.org/media/item/73054/1190/Brit-Insurance-Student-Competition.pdf

Easter Holiday

I will be in school during the Easter break on the following days

• Monday 7th April - 9:30-4:00 Year 11 & Year 12
• Wednesday 9th April - 9:30-4:00 Year 12 only
• Thursday 10th April - 9:30-4:00 Year 11 & Year 12
• Monday 14th April - 10:00-4:00 Year 11 & Year 12
• Wednesday 16th April - 9:30-4:00 Year 12 only (if required)
• Thursday 17th April - 9:30-4:00 Year 11 & Year 12 (if required)

Year 11 your deadlines are:- 24th April hand in all practical work, 28th April hand in all Coursework sheets, 29th April hand in 100 word explanaition of your project in Word

GCSE Product Design

Year 10
Here is a little guidance in preparation for your Mock Examination.
Ensure that you bring with you sketching equipment and a fine black pen!
At the top of each page/question it tell you how many marks the question is worth and roughly how long to spend on the question!
You may find these links helpful!
http://www.australiasigns.com.au/signage-videos.html - Watch the video about laser cut acrylic. We have a similar machine in school
http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/toothbrush - this is background information on a product that you have studied this year
http://www.ripley.lancs.sch.uk/DTWebsite/KS4%20file%20downloads_files/F2%20Design%20in%20Plastics%20V1.0A-1.pdf - some very detailed information on Materials can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_protection