Designing and making Flashcards
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Yinka Illori
known for his bold use of bright colours and playful designs for furniture and public spaces. His work includes architecture, interior design,
- Yinka Illori studio
Vivienne westwood
her iconic clothing became very popular during the punk-rock movement in the 1970s, she has since become a world famous fashion designer and her designs often take inspiration from traditional British clothing and historical paintings
Norman foster
An architect whose buildings are often constructed from glass and steel. Fosters work include famous landmarks such as Wembley stadium, the Millennium Bridge
Alexander Mcqueen
an influential fashion designer known for his theatrical, well tailored clothing and dramatic catwalk presentations displaying his colections
Phillipe Stark
an architect and product designer who has designed many products including furniture, kitchenware, vehicles. one of his best known products is his lemon squeezer for alessi
Describe Alessi
- employs designers and architects to come up with fun and creative ideas which were then manufactured by his company
- designs are always distinctive and colourful, like Phillipe Starks lemon squeezer
- uses strong metals such as steel
describe Apple
- products are instantly recognisable due to their smooth, rounded edges and sleek style
- products are very intuitive, making them user friendly
Describe Dyson
- James dyson invested the first bagless vacuum cleaner in the 1980s. before this, vacuum cleaners lost suction over time and contained bags to collect dust which needed replacing
- dyson design made use of cyclones and a dust bin. this gave greater, consistent suction and there was no need to keep buying bags
- dyson have since created a variety of vacuum cleaners designed with a focus on being efficient and innovative
Describe Primark
- Irish clothing company which opened its first store in Dublin, now has stores across the UK
- aims to provide current trends in fashion at a low cost to its customers
Describe GAP
- American clothing company which sells casual and everyday wear like jeans etc
- started out in -969 as a single shop, initially just selling jeans alongside records to attract young people
- it’s popularity led to the company quickly increasing its number of shops and range of clothing, now the company has thousands of stores worldwide
what is the name given to someone who hires a designer
client
what does the client do
gives the designer a design brief
what is a design brief
- a starting point for the development of a product.
what should a design brief include
- what kind of product is wanted or needed and why
- how the product will be used
- ## who the product is for (the target market)
how does the designer pick important features of the design brief
using a spider diagram as its a quick way to analyse the problem and help the designer decide what they need to research
whats the point of the designer doing research
- check that people will actually want the product
- find out what people in the target market like or dislike about similar existing products
- find out what materials, standard components and techniques would be suitable for the product, and how they would affect manufacturing costs
different types of research
market research - questionnaires or interviews can be used to find out peoples likes or dislikes to help the designer understand what the target group wants from a product
product analysis - where designers can examine or disassemble a current product to :
- figure out how it’s made
- check for good and bad features, including how ergonomic the design is
- collect data on factors that could affect the products performance
- test how it looks smells feels or tastes
what should be done after research
DRAW CONCLUSIONS!
- designer should summarise what they’ve just found out and pick out the most important and useful findings
- explain what impact each finding will have on the design
what should the designer do after conclusions are drawn
- the designer may want to look again at the design brief with the client
- if the research differs from the design brief, the designer may consider altering the design brief
what is a design specification
something that gives certain conditions that the product should meet
- these conditions should take account of the research findings
how should a design specification be written
as bullet points, each point should be explained and show how the research helped the designer to decide on that point
the specification should include the following things:
aesthetics, consumer, cost, environment, size, safety, function and materials.
what would the designer need to do if they aren’t given a target market in the design brief
work out which people are most likely to buy ur product
how can you group people
By age, gender, job, lifestyle, amount of money