Connect

1. Connect Sort the images for a ‘cool wall’

2. Sharing new information • In pairs: • Chose a product from the images on your table. • Discuss why you think it is ‘sub zero’, ‘cool’or ‘un-cool’. • Write your explanation under the product. • Explain your decision to the group. • Place it on our cool wall Literacy: speaking and listening skills

3. Searching for meaning Sketching and rendering techniques • Draw the object in front of you and try these out: • Fine liner-do not remove your pen from • the paper until you have finished drawing the object • Marker pens to render and create backgrounds • Thick and thin line technique • Mark making to create different tones and textures • Draw on different types of paper

4. Demonstrating understanding What makes a product ‘cool’? In teams: Make a list Look at the Alessi products Cool? Or un-cool? Choose a product Re-design it Make it cool ! Learning outcomes: sophisticated, elegant solutions showing excellent and varied communication skills. B. Wide range of imaginative and feasible ideas communicated competently. C. A range of feasible ideas drawn clearly. Literacy: use subject specific terminology

5. Reviewing your learning • List 2 things you have learnt this lesson • Share these with your team • What is the most important thing your team has learnt? Literacy: speaking and listening skills • Homework • To be completed for your first lesson in September • Complete the design you started today • Complete a study of a famous product designer. The study should include; • key dates, where they work/who for, what they have designed, • your opinions of their work and what you think has inspired or influenced them. • Complete an analysis of one of your chosen designer’s products. • Redesign the product you have analysed • (a wide range of sketches using different media) • Final design drawing of your product