Final Design Project 2000

The Project

Chose from one the following design projects to act as a summative project for the year.

NOTE: By next class you shall have selected a project. Within three classes you are to submit a design brief for consideration and discussion.

This project, due on June 5th, shall :See presentation schedule

• be worth 35% of your Term 2 mark.
• be done by individuals or as a team limited to 2 persons.
• include a 4 to 10 minute presentation, through which you must convince us that your design is successful and worth further development or implementation. Design it as if it will be ready for public consumption on Thursday June 1st. I will also be looking to see that you have a clear understanding of how the elements and principles of design used in your product effect the intent of your design. Projects of two or more people should have a longer, more explicit presentation. You should also have it designed so to gain helpful feedback from your audience. Boring them will likely not give you quality feedback, so make you presentation engaging and be extremely well organized. Web sites, Powerpoint, and Hyperstudio can make good presentation support materials, but remember, don't spend more than 10% of your time on this!! For help goto http://aitt.acadiau.ca/nstpd/index.html
• be challenging for you to produce. You will be demonstating your ability to understand and harmonize form and function through a relvent design technology
• be meaningful and coherent, using the right tool for the right job, well researched, effective, and produced with utmost care and precision.
• include a series of drawings as evidence of exploration, inquiry, modifications, variations of your design, etc. This will likely be done in your Art Journal. Your design process is very important.

Summary

Thus you will create:

1. a series of notes, brainstorms, A DESIGN BRIEF, and sketches, which show evidence of a good design process.
2. a daily journal. this journal would be a good reflection of what you did (thought, questioned, resolved, and continue to question) during any session of designing
3. a design product which demonstrates strong consideration for the aesthetics, content, form and function of your design, being relevent to and valued by its intended audience.
4. a presentation which clearly shares with and sells your ideas to us

20% process	Art Journal- including notes, plans, drawings, brainstorms a design brief a daily journal
70% product	45% concept & function + 25% aesthetics and form
10% for your presentation	clarity, content, and aesthetics

Design Project Topics:

1. As a team, create a virtual tour of a place, such as your school or township, to be experienced through the internet or a CD Rom. This virtual tour might use video clips, sound bites, pictures, Quicktime Virtual Reality, Macromedia Director, Hyperstudio, etc., to construct an environment that will provide an audience with a reasonable conceptual and affective understanding a place.
2. Develop a personal and interactive portfolio that can be experienced through a CD Rom or other computer media. You could collect all of the successful work you have created over the year and present the work through an interactive environment such as ones created using Director, HTML and Java, or Hyperstudio. This is to represent you, promoting your finest qualities and skills, not just your art work and not to be self indulgent. The form and function of your portfolio will be as important as your content.
3. Fully develop a website for a local business that can effectively engage an audience.
4. Create a full layout of a magazine or newspaper publication. This should include a cover and back plus two or more insert pages.
5. PRODUCT DESIGN: Take an existing product and change its image. You can make it work better, or be more attractive to a demographic. Material choices and form will need to be well considered asnd researched in your design brief.
6. create a video which acts as a commercial or mini movie. Storyboards, scripting, camera shots, and editing are alll to be well considered and executed. See Video12 links
7. Design and produce a video production to meet a specific need. Example, produce a video yearbook, a weekly news broadcast, school trip, etc. Storyboards, scripting, camera shots, and editing are all to be well considered and executed. SeeVideo12 links
8. Create an artistic installation of a space that will meaningfully engage an audience.
9. Develop and produce a three part ad campaign promoting a concept that is important to yourself or your community. E.g. scent free environments, celebrating our differences, environmental protection, globalization, marketing to children (McDonald’s), etc. ..
10. Develop a website which acts as a gallery of all work done in your Design 11 class. This can be organized by project, module, or student.
11. Design, create and promote scale models for a space that is environmentally friendly and handicap accessible and based on a theme. This space may be, for example:

• a retirement facility
• a holiday resort
• a park
• an education facility
• an art gallery

 

Other…? You can propose an alternative project in writing to me within 3 days. This proposal is to be clearly written and organized. From this I need to know roughly what I should expect to see as a product an exactly what kind of process you plan to follow towards resolving your project. Hint… a good design process is one where you have identified a problem (have a task) and you are hunting for the best solution.