Design and Technology (Product Design)

Course summary

This course is intended to reflect the considerations and wide-ranging activities of a professional product designer. Planned research investigations, sketching, rendering, 3D modelling, Photoshop work, Computer Aided Design (CAD), product manufacture and third party feedback, testing and evaluation are all design skills which will be called upon. Students will also be expected to analyse objectively the design implications of objects in the world, in terms of manufacture, materials, potential users, environmental, social and moral issues. It is important that students develop their ability to communicate their thinking clearly in written and graphic forms. These skills are tested throughout the course and in the examination.