Designing Question

You have to create 5 different designs that are influenced by the designer

Charles Renne MacKintosh

The theme is storage for small items.

A brainstorm for what might be stored:

Jewellery Box

Desk tidy

Pencil caseFishing tackle box

Tool box

Marks available

• 3 marks are available per design

• YOU WILL LOSE MARKS FOR THE SAME DESIGN

Expectations

• Designs like these will only get 1 mark each because they are not very creative. Just a simple shape with one or two details.

• Designs like this will get 2 marks because they show some creativity but not much detail

• Designs like these will get 3 marks because they show more creativity and lots of detail.

• It would be a good idea to add a few labels

Read the question and look to see if it asks you to ‘sketch five designs’ or

Use notes and sketches – if it asks for notes then you MUST label your ideas.

So how do I design to show some influence of Charles Rennie

MacKintosh• First find some

pictures of his work you might like to find some more

Pick out some design featuresSquares/grid

patterns

Lines

Chair with very high

back

Rose

FlowersAlso look for shapes, patterns, recurring themes

Desk Tidy tray influenced by flowers in stained glass window

Some ideas that you could draw in the exam

Link to help revision

• http://www.technologystudent.com/joints/joindex.htm

• Scroll down to the section on exam preparation. I strongly suggest you look at this page as part of your revision planning.