Resources

Boneup on your: Design Terminology

Design Thinking for Teachers

Consider a design problem : Our Affair with The Chair

• WHO OWNS OUR CULTURE
  (THE BIG 10)
• Listen to: Under the Influence
• The Age of Persuasion (listen in)
• More media awareness links

• See the Principles of Design
• See Elements and Principles of design slide shows
• See collage mounting procedure instructions
• Find project exemplars here
• Project evaluation template
• Reflection template (MSWord)

Projects

Web Slyness Activity

Primers:

Design To Define.
Exemplars here

True Colours Personality Quiz

Personality Compass

Activities from the Bauhaus 
See HHS SAMPLES of Bauhaus. And these examples

Marshall McLuhan's Laws of Media

Product:

• Font designs -- see examples of our process.

• Download our fonts.

• Principles of Design see examples

The Art Journal Cover Design project including:

• Cover Collage examples

Resources

Get the Design Thinking Toolkit

Design support (guides and tutorials)

LEARNING PHOTOSHOP CS5 (Key feature tutorial and video links here

In Design Basics (PDF)

• A Great Model of a Design Process
• Basic requirements when Building a Website
• Web designers... see web design do's & dont's
• Flash Artists can get pieces from Flashkit
• See designing an ad model from Adbusters
• More at our Design links
• FREE Fonts: Font Freak
• FREE Music / great collection Freeplaymusic
• For Branding instructions visit: http://www.mudvalley.co.uk/asp/brand.asp
• Video Makers: Download Storyboard & Support notes
• New the MAC? here are the keyboard shortcuts

Projects

Primer:

Marshall McLuhan's Laws Of Media Explained and Examples

Branding Defined & Activity

• Media Awareness Activity
• What is the formula for our attention? (Art Journal)
• Marketing to Teens: Strategies
• Magazine Ads .. all kinds in this collection

Design Challenge:

Change Now! Project

Get the Design Thinking Guide

& Design Thinknig workbook

Questionnaire template PDF / Pages.

HAND IN PROJECT VIA MOODLE

Resources:

Great Canadian Design: Umbra

Creative Product Designs: Bored Panda

What is the Crieteria for excellent design?

Projects

Primer:

Creativity Games: HeureticsWorksheet

Find a highly successful product or ad and deconstruct it back to the artist.
Marketing & distribution
Packaging
Materials
Content
Form
Moulding
Prototype ... Failures
Pencil on paper (initial ideas - who's the designer).

Product:

Assignment sheet here (PDF)
Assessment targets

Select a standard product from your home (kitchen bathroom) that serves a function but is otherwise visually boring. Repurpose or redesign it to be artfully exciting, where an audience would crave this product.

Considerations:

Performance in practical, or aesthetic, tactility, kinesthetic
Aesthetics of function.
Re-Relevant the design..
Perhaps connect with food. Re-relevant design in your kitchen.

Feng Shui Resources

How to Feng Shui a room... Steps here
How to Feng Shui your Bedroom... Steps here
Feng Shui videos: in depth... Bedroom in Feng Shui
Feng Shui Bedroom process example.

• Steps and Tutorials to Build a Website

TED Talks: 10 Inspiring Architecture videos

Feature video: Bjarke Ingels

Worlds Best Architecture

Tour the iconic Toronto Flatiron Building

Projects

Feng Shui Activity:

Using the Bagua and the Nine FengShui Remedies, redesign your room to maximize the benefits of Feng Shui.

Assignment & rubric here

Student Exemplars

Designing your room with Sketchup.. Step by step

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Heaven and Hell Project:

Project and criteria

Heaven and Hell Assessment

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Built Environment WEB Project:

Assignment Details here

• Learning Targets & Assessment Rubric
• Web site Design Reflection (MS)( or as a .pdf)

EXEMPLARS of student websites HERE

 

Architectural floorplan standard design symbols

Resources

• A Great Model of a Design Process
• Examples of artistic installations
• Basic requirements when Building a Website
• Web designers... see web design do's & dont's
• Flash Artists can get pieces from Flashkit
• See designing an ad model from Adbusters
• More at our Design links
• iMOVIE tutorials / movies
• Fireworks training videos (click on movie demos)
• Dreamweaver training videos(click on movie demos)
• Photoshop training videos click on movie demos)
• For Branding instructions visit: http://www.mudvalley.co.uk/asp/brand.asp

Primer:

In your Art Journal, research and reflect on food and your relationship to it. This activity should be done throughout the term.

Listen: Three Foot Marketing
The problem, Jamie Oliver makes the case
What's the problem with a delightful garden?
One primary student's school dinners blog
Know the risk when 50% of our food is wasted
One Week of Groceries, around the world.

Read: Five unhealthy habits sending us to an early grave

Process & Product:
Design Your Food (pdf)

Or, Solve the bird death problem in our cities... Read on..

Alternate: Take on and complete one of these design challenges

Find exemplars of other projects here

Assessment Criteria (Adobe Acrobat file)
Download Reflection template (MSWord)

Additional Criteria here (Under Review)