Design &Technology

Sarah Sukkar
Assessment Task 1 - Port Folio

Table of Contents
Exploration of the need and evaluation ..................................................................................... 2-3 Research and evaluation of existing designs .4 Generation and evaluation of 2 ideas with annotations ............................................................. 5 A final design with dimensions and materials ............................................................................ 6 Case study7-11

Exploration of the need and evaluation

Im making this bracelet for teenage girls around the age of 14-18. The theme I am heading for is something beachy, with the colours blue, white and silver. Im planning on making the style of this bracelet, where it can wrap your wrist consecutive times and meet at the front with a bead on the end. There will be a starfish in this bracelet that will resemble the beach.
Survey link: https://docs.google.com/a/sydstu.catholic.edu.au/forms/d/1MhYCdhqeSgXGoAmSHY1i9DZPsgHFWHtYIpYWdvY7SE/viewform

Survey results

Research and evaluation of existing designs

I have made this collage above with those specific pictures because I found that they all compliment the beachy theme. These are also some of the ideas I had in mind for the bracelet I am planning on making. Due to the survey results, the most favoured colours are the blue and white. White pearls are preferred and so was the starfish as a symbol, this symbolises a sea creature. In conclusion, I am still not sure whether to make my bracelet out of thick metallic blue material and braid it so that it wraps around consecutively around the writs about 4 times or to make it out of a thick white metallic material and wrap it consecutively around the wrist about 4 times as well, except without the braid.

Generation and evaluation of 2 ideas with annotations

In this diagram I was planning to have three different coloured strands of material. These colours would consist of pink, orange and red. In the middle of the bracelet I have decided to make a gold, rectangular shaped copper with measurements of 4cm x 1.5 cm, so that I can engrave the word beach on the front and connect the end of the plat through a hole and in the copper with a white pearl supporting it.

In this second drawing, I have decided to use a wooden bangle and paint it lime green with holes in it so that I can place a small soft pink pearl. The bangle will be around 30 millimetres in width and have a silver oval shaped copper in the middle with the engraved words Beach Girl with 2 consecutive waves underneath and a small love heart on the top right hand corner.

A final design with dimensions and materials

I have chosen this last drawing to be my final design. This consists of a metallic blue material around 16 cm in length so that it can wrap around the wrist consecutively and be tied into a bow or knot on the opposite side of the silver copper. On the silver copper around 4 cm in length and 1.5 cm in width, there will be engraved writing Beach Girl! with a noncoloured in love heart on the top right hand corner. On the outline of the copper I am planning on having small sized white pearls.

Case study SECTION 1

1. Read Evaluating success. List the financial and personal rewards that Dinosaur Designs' partners can enjoy because of their company's success. Some personal rewards were mentioned in this text. The main that where mentioned were being able to work with your best friends and creating beautiful objects which are appreciated by others. On the financial side of things, it is said to be that running your own successful design company altogether is a success. 2. Look at the Dinosaur Designs' career path. What things in dicate the company's success and popularity? Distinctive In this paragraph it talks about the more passionate side to making a product. They are saying that its Important to look at the impact of the product on people's lives. They find Personal joy in making the product, not just for the sake of it. The company gets the opportunity to be invited to work on specific charity projects. Not only this but they find that creating something that becomes a big part of people's lives also impacts positively on p opularity and success. 3. Develop a flow chart of a design process undertaken by the team at Dinosaur Designs.

The research the main techniques, materials and tools using the internet. this also helped them find usful information on maufaturing industires and open the minds to new ideas.

intellectual property
They use an intellectual property also know as IP to proctect there company and products from scams, cheap copies and knock off designs. it is said to be that id the look and feel ois unique to the comapny than there is protection to there designs.

By constructing their buisness slowly , carfully and thoughtfully, ensurng that all mistakes that were made were small. on the other hand it was said to be that the team learnt from there negative ad unsucessful experiences .

polyester resin

constraints

4. The Dinosaur Designs team are passionate about their work. They use a particular language to communicate their process of design, for example, hand-felt and finessing. Select these words and in the context of the passage, discuss what the designer means by them. Hand-felt: Finessing:

SECTION 2 FACTORS INFLUENCING DESIGN

Visit the Gallery of work. Touch, feel and look are important to Dinosaur Designs. Look at three images and describe them in terms of the elements of design, such as line, colour and texture.

Image #1 Louis Vuitton chess set pieces designed by Dinosaur Designs. In this design there are 2 main colours and a large variety of lines. The main colours used in the design are black and white with thin lines and shapes of white and black squares so it forms a chess like look. Image #2 Dinosaur Designs' products. Ottoman in Dinosaur Designs fabric Throughout this design there are a variety of different shades of the same colours, for example, there are around 3 different shades of blue, one that is dark, another that is a light blue and then another colour that was a blue but almost green kind of shade. There wasnt really a pattern to this design it was more of the solid colours.

Image #3 Dinosaur Designs' silver resin inlay jewellery. This dangly earing design is made up of a solid blood red coloured resin in the middle and has a shiny silver, thick boarder outline. This design looks like it has more of a hard feel to it rather than a glassy or lough feel.

2. Dinosaur Designs manufactures all their resin pieces in their own studio. What kinds of Occupational Health & Safety practices might they

have to consider for employees working in a studio or workshop environment? www.workcover.com.au When working in a studio or workshop environment using resin, they would have to make sure there is nothing around the in there workspace that will tip over any chemicals, plastics or glass pieces that may cause injury or hazards. As an example, if you were to work with some of the chemicals used in resin, using the correct utensils and equipment will prevent any cause of melting. Some chemicals have a lot of acids in them and can cause a leakage.

SECTION 3 ROLES OF DESIGNERS

1. The Dinosaur Designs team received training in the visual arts as well as professional art studies. Suggest an alternative career path that might give you the skills necessary for designing objects and/or jewellery. You might like to visit http://www.myfuture.edu.au . 2. Jewellery design is a design specialisation of the area of study: Products. What other design specialisations does Dinosaur Designs work in? Dinosaur Designs create a large amount product such as large vases, plates and cups. They created a chess set of Louis Vuitton. The Ottoman in Dinosaur Design made a different range of fabrics and an stimulating plastique installation for Melbourne Fashion Week.

3. List some of the reasons peo ple wear jewellery. Describe your favourite piece of jewellery and the reasons it is important to you. People wear it for various reasons. Some people wear it because it symbolizes something, like a wedding ring, engagement ring. A necklace given by a partner. For example. I have a neighbour that wears dogtags with his sister's name engraved onto it. It's a very beautiful piece and it has deep meaning. She was very close to him and he wears it all the time. My favourite piece of jewellery would be a gold chain necklace. It was the first piece of jewellery I ever had, and it was a gift from my grandfather when I was born. This bracelet has my name engraved on the front with a love heart, whenever he saw me wear it he would say how I was would always be his little princess no matter how old I get. On my 5 t h birthday my grandfather died and now every time I wear this bracelet it reminds me of him.

SECTION 4 GENERATING IDEAS

1. Stephen Ormandy of Dinosaur Designs describes the importance of sketching for generating ideas. Practice your sketching skills for your next project. Keep a small pocket notebook and pencil with you at all times and draw thumbnails of any ideas you come across. DONT NEED TO DO ANYTHING

2. Identify some of the methods used by Dinosaur Designs to generate creative ideas. About the designer

SECTION 5 SELECTS, ANALYSES, PRESENTS AND APPLIES RESEARCH

Experimenting and testing of design ideas was important for the development of Dinosaur Designs' first innovative products for Paddington markets. Describe the experimentation and testing that was carried out. In the markets the dinosaur Designers sold different types or jewellery and clothes. This may help them assess on what people favoured which took a long amount of time. With this information they used it as a guide to what they thought would help the business become a success. 2. Dinosaur Designs are influenced to a certain extent by current trends. What sources of information would be particularly useful for jewellery designers? The team believes that jewellery should a persons personality and not what the latest fashion is. But despite this they would find popular and current trends and styles to guide them through new ideas and inventions.

SECTION 6 MIXED MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES

If you were to design a small pendant how could it be mass produced? Research the different ways in which you could produce multiple copies of this object. You can do this by customising you own piece of jewellery online and get many samples of them. There are many websites such as : http://www.egjewelry.com/store/ OR http://www.crazyforcrafts.com/

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2. For the small pendant research how it can be finished. How does it affect the visual appeal of the object? To finish a pendant you would give it a spray with a pray that shines and glosses beads and other jewellery parts. This will give it a smooth and shiny effect. You could also to sand it and polish it with the black card provided; this will also have a smooth but also jagged looking affect. 3. Research other products made from polyester resin, e.g. bathro om vanities, bathtubs, canoes, surfboards. Compare the characteristics of these products with the characteristics of Dinosaur Designs' products . Surfboards a mostly build with a clear polyester resin and fiberglass. With these 2 products, it will construct a well build, strong and low price surfboard which might even last longer. Bath room sinks can be another product. The method to making it can be less expensive than the average sink but can also be less tough and not last as long. A fiberglass sink consists of a few layers of surface coat, fiberglass for some more support and polyest er resin. This can be easy to clean and sustain in our day to day lives.

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