Group Design Movement Investigation

1. Group Design Movement Investigation Your Task; To work in a team to investigate the Bauhaus movementand the impact of this movement on product design Deliverables… All students must produce a product analysis. All students must produce a specification You must choose a range of household objects and re-design them in the style of your movement. You must then present your ideas in the form of a Third Angle Orthographic drawing. You will then gather your team together and give a short 3 – 5 minute presentation on the movement, what it is, what impact it has had on the design world. Then how your designs have been influenced. *Scan in all third angle drawings so that you can use them in your presentations.

2. Bauhaus Design Movement • Tasks to be completed….. • Analyse the information provided on the design movement. • Conduct a product analysis and create a specification • Using this information and the design movement information redesign your product – 2 design ideas • Draw one of these in isometric / orthographic projection

3. Third Angle Orthographic Projection These lines must be light. These are the Construction lines Isometric View Orthographic Projection is a way of drawing an object from different directions. Usually a front, side and plan view are drawn so that a person looking at the drawing can see all the important sides. Orthographic drawings are useful especially when a design has been developed to a stage whereby it is almost ready to manufacture.

4. Third Angle Orthographic Projection Complete the third angle projection below and draw the isometric version of it Isometric View

5. Third Angle Orthographic Projection – Draw the object here in third angle orthographic projection

6. Third Angle Orthographic Projection – Draw the object here in isometric view

7. Design Process – (Design Movements, Product analysis – reverse specification, Ideas, Isometric) Bauhaus … is one of the most important Design Movements in the twentieth century. It took place in Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s, the period of the Weimar Republic, an area considered one of the birthplaces of the Modern Movement in architecture and design. A principle of the Bauhaus was to serve the development of contemporary housing, from the most basic household equipment to the complete house. Walter Gropius, the director of the Bauhaus, was convinced, "that houses and their furnishings must have a meaningful relation to each other and aims to derive the form of every object from its natural functions and limitations, by means of systematic experimentation." For the Bauhaus designers metal or tubular steel was lighter, cheaper, less bulky and more hygienic than the traditional upholstered furniture. The idea behind this new aesthetics was to built cheap and beautiful homes, were the cool and durable materials of the furniture would create a new type of beauty. Steel has a natural elasticity. And steel had the added advantage of a certain uniformity. It gives the impression of a psychological and aesthetic purity. Influential designers from this period include; Marcel Breuer, le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe

8. Product Analysis – Product analysis is probably the most useful research you can undertake. It involves looking carefully at a product, taking it apart (or imagining taking it apart) and working out how it was made You are expected to consider the wider implications of designing and manufacturing. Can the product be recycled? What does its life cycle look like? What has been the effect of this product on our lifestyles? Is a particular group of people excluded from using the product?

9. Specification – Your specification should provide a detailed description of what the product is to be. It should reflect information found in your research and a third party should be able to use your specification to start to plan and develop ideas which would result in a final product. Important criteria to consider; Target Market, Function, Size, Weight, Durability, Aesthetics, Materials, Safety, Cost, Environmental Issues, Manufacture, Packaging

10. Initial Ideas x 2 – You are to take the information in your specification, the product analysis, the design movement and redesign the product on the front sheet

11. Third Angle Orthographic view of the chosen idea 3rd Angle Projection Symbol Appropriate sizes must be included on this diagram, all relevant detail, and must adhere to the Third Angle Standards