Design and Technology

Year 9 2014 Portfolio

Bianca Cimini

Contents
Exploration of the Need and Evaluation.......3 Research and Evaluation of Existing Designs.....4 Generation and Evaluation of 2 Ideas with Annotations........6 Final Design with Dimensions and Materials...7 Case Study....8

Exploration of the Need and Evaluation

Why are you making the item of jewellery?

I am making this item of jewellery for myself. I am 14 in age and I love the beach and going out on my boat. They type of style Im into would be the beach typed person. I love to spend my summer holiday down at the beach or just cruising around Botany Bay on our boat. I can be a girly girl but I can also be a tom boy. Some of my interest would be animals, house designs, boats, beaches, pools, water and I love technology (iPhones, MacBooks, iPads ect.) my favourite colour would have to be a turquoise blue. I have loved blue ever since I can remember. I guess sometimes it just reminds me of the water and how much I love it. I absolutely love the anchor symbol of a boat. I would really love it if I could try to make an anchor out of polymer clay. I am a very easy going person to be around. Im quite friendly and dont hate many people. Sometime on the weekends I will be honest I can be quite lazy as I love to just sit around and do nothing but then sometimes I can be very energetic and will find it hard to stay still. The type of jewellery I am making is an anklet. My ankle is 24cm all around. The type of material I would like to use to make this anklet would be a silver chain.
Survey Word document Interview YouTube Video Images Other

Research and Evaluation of Existing Designs

The following animoto is made up to 20 pictures that I have gone and found that could inspire my design.

Conclusion

I think that I will base my design on items 8 and 15 as I love the colour in 8 and I feel I can relate to 15 because I thought that I would really love to have an anchor charm on my anklet somewhere.

Anklet
I have chosen these anklet pictures because I feel like I would like to make something like this and I think they relate well to what I had in mind to design.

Summary
From this research I have decide to use anchors and blue polymer clay beads in some of my designs because I feel that they relate well to the beach and myself.

Generation and Evaluation of 2 Ideas with Annotations

Idea one

Idea two

Final Design with Dimensions and Materials

Case Study
1. Read Evaluating success. List the financial and personal rewards that Dinosaur Designs' partners can enjoy because of their company's success. The financial rewards would be running your own successful design company. The personal satisfaction could be creating beautiful objects which are appreciated and enjoyed by others or the freedom and also being able to work with your best friends. A personal reward could be that the single think that stands out in my mind its that you create something that becomes a big part of peoples lives. 2. Look at the Dinosaur Designs' career path. What things indicate the company's success and popularity? Some things that would indicate the companys success and popularity would have to be travelling around the world, participating in the Melbourne fashion show, starting to export jewellery to the UK and Germany, selling a range of jewellery in London, opening a store in New York and then getting to work for Louis Vuitton. 3. Develop a flow chart of a design process undertaken by the team at Dinosaur Designs.

4. Dinosaur Designs uses specialist designers for some aspects of their work, for example, architects and graphic designers. Compare the design process used to design Dinosaur Designs' jewellery and that used by the product designer Angelo Kotsis. What are the similarities and differences between the two processes? Similarities would be that they both take eight steps to make. Differences would be that the designer Angelo Kotsiss is a lot more complicated compared to the Dinosaur Design and it would also take a lot more to create. 5. The Dinosaur Designs team are passionate about their work. They use a particular language to communicate their process of design, for example, hand-felt and finessing. Select these words and in the context of the passage, discuss what the designer means by them. By the designer using hand felt he/she means relating to how something feels in the hands and using finessing means making better, refining something. 6. Visit the Gallery of work. Touch, feel and look are important to Dinosaur Designs. Look at three images and describe them in terms of the elements of design, such as line, colour and texture. The Louis Vuitton chess set uses elements of design such as the colour it uses simular colour that makes it interesting to look at where as if there were to be so many bright colours people wouldnt feel so calm around it. The glass products the dinosaur designs makes has a nice texture feel to it when you look at it and the cabinet filled with dinosaur designs tends to all blend together because the colours are done beautifully.

7. Dinosaur Designs manufactures all their resin pieces in their own studio. What kinds of Occupational Health & Safety practices might they have to consider for employees working in a studio or workshop environment? www.workcover.com.au They have to be aware that all employees working will have full experience with their job and make sure they get the right training. 8. The Dinosaur Designs team received training in the visual arts as well as professional art studies. Suggest an alternative career path that might give you the skills necessary for designing objects and/or jewellery. You might like to visit http://www.myfuture.edu.au . I could go out hunting for jobs. I can find some in newspapers, online, at centre link ect. I need to consider what I would like to do, what im good at and whats important to me. 9. Jewellery design is a design specialisation of the area of study: Products. What other design specialisations does Dinosaur Designs work in? Designer jewellery also works in Louis Vuitton making there chess set. 10. List some of the reasons people wear jewellery. Describe your favourite piece of jewellery and the reasons it is important to you. People were jewellery all the time it could be to make their outfit prettier or even to dress up and outfit. I dont wear a lot of jewellery but I do have one piece that is my favourite. Its a bracelet its stanis steel, it made in Italy and it has my name printed on if it gold. 11. Identify the contribution Dinosaur Designs makes to the improvement of everyday life. The contribution dinosaur designs makes to the improvement of everyday life would have to be by making jewellery they make everyones like easier as it is so easy now to dress up an outfit. 13. Identify some of the methods used by Dinosaur Designs to generate creative ideas. About the designer. Some methods used by dinosaur design are they started making earing and shirts, then opened and shop and went from there. 14. Experimenting and testing of design ideas was important for the development of Dinosaur Designs' first innovative products for Paddington markets. Describe the experimentation and testing that was carried out. They would have had to experiment and test design ideas every day. They could have had to test whether the clothes were see through or not and if they were they would have had to start all over again. They would have had to test whether there jewellery was strong or not. They would have had to do a lot of testing on their items to make them 100%. 15. Dinosaur Designs are influenced to a certain extent by current trends. What sources of information would be particularly useful for jewellery designers?

They would come together with their designs in a sketch book and choses which ones to go through with and would often work quite sculpturally either using wood or plasticine of wax depending on what type of design they were looking at going into. 16. If you were to design a small pendant how could it be mass produced? Research the different ways in which you could produce multiple copies of this object. A small pendant can be mass produced in many steps, first get a pendent pin then get a pendent its self than start making it. 17. For the small pendant research how it can be finished. How does it affect the visual appeal of the object? For a small pendant to be finished you would have to cook it at a certain temperature then when it comes out put lacquer on it and it will be complete. 18. Research other products made from polyester resin, e.g. bathroom vanities, bathtubs, canoes, surfboards. Compare the characteristics of these products with the characteristics of Dinosaur Designs' products. These other products usually take a lot longer to make and are a lot more complicated compared to Dinosaur Designs. They are normally a lot stronger and seem to break a lot less.