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What is Product Design – the design style questions in the coming exam. You will be given a full design question in the paper, here is an example from the AQA mark scheme of how they will mark your paper; Use this time to plan what material you will describe and the processes;
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What is Product Design – the design style questions in the coming exam You will be given a full design question in the paper, here is an example from the AQA mark scheme of how they will mark your paper; Use this time to plan what material you will describe and the processes; Remember at this stage you do not know what they will ask you to design!
Question in the paper 2008: You have been asked to pick a material area you are familiar with: Textiles Food Resistant Materials Electronics Product Design What they have asked you to do! A school is having a design show, they want the D&T department to make a range of goods that create the word DESIGN, pick one material you are familiar with.
You will be marked on! • You will be marked on the notes, sketches and step-by-step stages of the processThey want you to draw sketches of each stage if you can, add colour to the final product, annotation/notes please.
Naming the equipment and processes for your design question if making from a resistant material! • Any named plastic or metal but not “plastic” or “metal” • Mild steel, wrought iron. Accept any named metal but not “metal” • Every stage of production has been identified and fully explained. (4 marks) • Drawings clear and sequential and easy to follow. (3 marks)
How you could describe the process for making your design question product! • Cast/moulded or vacuum formed. • Candidates might interpret this example very differently. • Casting – prepare mould in sand using wooden pattern or machine shape in reverse into MDF or Necuron foam (sometimes described as plastic wood). • Heat metal (aluminium for sand casting, pewter for die casting) and pour into mould. When cool remove and cut off excess metal using hacksaw and file. Polish.