Unit 1 Outcome 3: Design’s influence and influences on design
How do designers find and reframe human-centred design problems?
TASK
You are to research lunch box packaging from around the world and also in different time periods, looking at how social (Such as societal values and habits) and cultural factors (Cuisines, beliefs), environmental (Sustainability) and Economic factors (The socio-economic demographic of the target audience) may have influenced the materials used, the features and the form of the packaging.
DETAILS
You are to locate at least four lunchboxes and evaluate, you are to present your research using digital or manual techniques on a single landscape A3 page.
BACKGROUND
Understanding how different designs have been influenced by social, environmental, cultural and economic factors can greatly help the designer develop an understanding of how such factors may influence their own ideas.
TASK
You are to develop at least eight different ideas, each idea is to be annotate, discussing the features of the design and how it responds to the audience, purpose and context. In addition to sustainability considerations and circular design practices.
DETAILS
Your ideas must be produced on a single langscape A3 page, using manual drawing methods such as pencil, pen and marker.
BACKGROUND
Development of ideas, otherwise known as ideation, is a way to rapidly produce a range of differing ideas to help the designer explore and then assess the various different possibilities in terms of solving the design problem.
TASK
You are to choose one idea (or a single idea direved from combining two or more of your developed ideas) and modify the design eight times, with each idea focussing on unique treatment of one of the design elements. You need to annotate using descriptive language of the chosen design element.
DETAILS
The design elements page must be presented as an A3 landscape document, with eight design ideas drawn using manual drawing methods, in addition to hand written annotations for each, which specifically discussed and described the design elements used and their effectiveness.
BACKGROUND
Design Elements are a key ingredient in all forms of design, they present the designer with the tools to experiment and explore ideas, and generate new and innovative aesthetics, which may respond to the context, purpose or audience of a given design.
TASK
You are to choose one idea (or a single idea direved from combining two or more of your developed ideas) and modify the design eight times, with each idea focussing on unique treatment of one of the design principles. You need to annotate using descriptive language of the chosen design Principle.
DETAILS
The design Principles page must be presented as an A3 landscape document, with eight design ideas drawn using manual drawing methods, in addition to hand written annotations for each, which specifically discussed and described the design principles used and their effectiveness.
BACKGROUND
Design Principles describe the way in which the aspects of a design are presented or composed, they present the designer with the tools to experiment and explore ideas, and generate new and innovative aesthetics, which may respond to the context, purpose or audience of a given design.
TASK
You are to produce a finished design solution in the form of a presentation board. The renders may be produced digitally or using manual methods, however the presentation board must be produced digitally. The presentation board must include a summary of the design, discussing how it repsonded to the various factors described in the brief.
DETAILS
The finished presentation of the design solution is to be presented on an A3 Landscape or portrait page. You may also produced a physical prototype of the design if it is possible.
BACKGROUND
The design presentation is the final stage in the design process, the design presentation is the presentation of a the final design solution, whereby all aspects of the design have been refined to become fully resolved, responding in full to all aspects of the brief.
