Design and Technology (Product Design)

Course summary

The distinguishing feature of Product Design is its practical nature. Knowledge and understanding is not to be acquired purely for its own sake, but in order to apply it to the solution of practical problems which arise in everyday life and in industrial and commercial contexts. Underpinning all learning are the designing and making skills that make use of knowledge and understanding in order to produce outcomes which solve a problem and satisfy a design brief. Product Design offers candidates the opportunity to study, propose and realise prototype solutions to design problems, using similar methods to those used in the real world of product manufacture and graphic design.