Design and Technology (Product Design)

Course summary

A-Level boys are encouraged to take a broad view of design and technology, to develop their capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing. The course continues to provide boys with the opportunity to solve a problem, design and make a product. Boys are encouraged to develop their own thoughts and ideas about design. Central to the ethos of the department are Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design which are used to develop critical thinking of boys’ own work and that of others.