Paper 2

1. Paper 2 Art IGSCE April 24th and 25th 2013

2. Whichever question you pick: • Mindmap – do this effectively, the more detail, the better. • Answer these questions – ‘Who is my customer?’ ‘What do they need?’ and ‘How can my design help them feel satisfied?’ The answers to these questions should help you focus your planning. • Observational drawing. What is the topic? Find it and draw it! • Primary research – visit – photograph. • Secondary research – library, online – constantly evaluate what you find – what makes this a good (or bad) design? • Find an artist or designer to help you. • Sketch ideas based on all of the above. • Develop ideas in different media, including digital. • Select final idea, make more detailed plan. • Ensure the look of your worksheets follows the question.

3. Guidebook • A guidebook is being planned for the area where you live. Design a double-page spread for the book using appropriate images and text. You should show evidence of visual research of your local area, developmental work and a final design in appropriate media with some carefully selected text. • This is a great question because you can all easily explore your local area. You can extend your research to your favourite area of Taipei, if you like! • You may know your area very well, but the person looking at your work will not – this is your chance to show how interesting, exciting and stimulating your city is – remember, all of the things that you take for granted about your area, are completely fascinating to strangers! • Get out and draw, take photos, collect information from shops, museums, parks… think about recreational facilities, transport, food, fashion, youth culture – there are SO many options! What makes your area special or unique? Focus on that. • Look at existing guidebooks – are there any for your area? What do they do well? How could they be improved? • Develop your ideas with drawings – I think using a mixture of drawings and photos could be really nice for this project – how could you combine them? • Is there an artist or artistic style that would be appropriate for your work – traditional Chinese ink painting? Use this to help you develop a style • http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ • http://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/taipei • http://www.cntraveler.com/ • http://travel.cnn.com/ • http://hungryintaipei.blogspot.tw/ • Layout – how can you communicate all this information clearly and effectively? Try using photoshop or even publisher to experiment with different layouts. Save different versions of your work • Think about what to write…keep it personal…explain what it is like to live in your area. • Think about what typeface to use…and why? Explain your choices.

4. Fruit Juice • A soft drinks company is launching a new range of healthy fruit juices. Using fruit of your choice as a starting point, design at least three different labels for a selection of juices. Develop your ideas from first-hand experience. You should create a name for the fruit juices. • Visit the supermarket – take photographs of what juices are available – buy a selection. Draw them. Analyze the designs. Drink the drink – record how the taste makes you feel…use this writing later when you decide the name for your juice. • Buy fruit – decide what fruits you will use. Buy them. Draw them in different media (colourful), photograph them. • Who is your target market? Who would buy a healthy fruit juice? • Online research. Look for iconic drinks labels and logos. Collect a selection – print them. Analyse them…what makes them good? Bad? • Make a mindmap for your drinks name…remember, healthy , organic, - try and capture that feeling! • Collect images (like in pinterest) of things that you associate with your brand…it could be colours, ie…things that are green things that are orange….it could be , how those things make you feel…fresh…images of water, images of health etc etc. – print them out….this is called making a mood board. • Sketch! Remember you will be making a whole label…not just the logo…this will allow you to include other images etc • Pick your best three sketches and devlop them using different media. Using photoshop at this stage would be a good idea • Look at other artists or designers….pop artists such as Andy Warhol may be appropriate, but other choices could be made, based purely on colour. Email me for suggestions

5. Food Festival • A food festival has been arranged to promote traditional and modern foods of your region. Create an image which shows a range of food, and the place, date and time of the event, to be used on posters and in magazine advertisements. • Write a mind map…put down all the traditional and modern foods that you can think of…expand the mind map by writing what ingredients they are made from. How are they made. Who are they made by. How does eating them make you feel? The more detail in this, the better. • Go to take photographs of the foods mentioned in your mind map…remember that some foods are going to be more visually interesting than others, include pictures of the people selling the food as well. Print out your photographs. • Take photographs of raw ingredients from the market (this could be local fruit or vegetables for example) • Observational Drawings! Variety of media • Start developing your drawings…how could you combine images of the food, the ingredients and maybe the people cooking or preparing the food? How will you make sure your image looks local (Taiwanese?)) • Will you include photographs in your design? • Take 4 of your ideas and develop them further. Draw them a little bigger and colour them more carefully • Experiment on photoshop. This might be a good way for you to include the writing on your poster….

6. Traditional toys • Using the theme of Traditional Toys, design a wrapping paper for a chain of toy stores. Research the subject and develop a repeat pattern. • You will need to : Research traditional toys – these could be Western or Chinese. • Do some observational drawing – look at your childhood toys, ask your parents if they have any, visit http://toy-museum.myweb.hinet.net/english/index1.htm - having a toy museum in Taipei is FANTASTIC for this project. Visit it, take photos and draw from real life. Collect evidence of your visit. • Visit Toy stores. Look at the wrapping paper they have on sale. Buy some, analyze it. What could you improve? How? • We have a great library – Use it! • Look at online resources – what other products are out there? Find a selection of great designs- use them as inspiration. Here are three to get you started. • http://www.hamleys.com/ • https://www.marimekko.com/ • http://sweetvintagewrappingpaper.com/ • Here are some excellent tutorials for making a repeat pattern, with paper, in photoshop, and in illustrator. • http://www.designsponge.com/2008/05/welcome-julia-and-how-to-make-a-repeat-pattern.html • http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/repeating-patterns-intro/ • http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/illustration/create-beautiful-repeating-patterns/?pn=1 • Remember who and what your design is for – Children! What does that mean your design has to have?

7. Time Travel dancers • A contemporary dance company is staging a production based on Time Travel. Using examples of fashion or styles from the past, design a costume for a dancer. Research the subject, develop ideas and create a detailed full-colour design. • Come up with a simple story. Think of characters, location and vague plot…. This will help you focus your attention. • In an ideal world, it would be perfect to go and watch some contempoary dance. http://www.ccdctw.com.tw/news.php - • But failing that, watch you tube! Try pausing the video and drawing the dancers…what kind of movements do they make? Take notes on their costumes, try typing amazing costumes contemporary dance and looking at the results…quite boring in my opinion – you can do better!  • Using your story to guide you, research a particular era (you should probably pick 3 different eras to get the idea of travelling)….go to the library, look online, collect images and artwork from that time…what were the influences? What else was happening in the world at that time? Think about music, technology, politics….these things could all influence the design of your outfits. Print out images, • Look at the designs of various designers – analyse their work • http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/f/fashion/ This is a website for a fantastic museum in london…it is well worth looking through the pages here and using the designers they mention, or some of the ideas they discuss as starting points for further research. • Sketch designs – type female/male fashion figure template into google image…so you don’t struggle with figure proportion • Make your designs as detailed and extravagant as possible at first, and then think about how to change and improve them to make them more suitable for dancing. • Develop your best designs…use different media to do this…think about how different media can represent different materials…inks, paints etc…us ethe quality of the media to help you! • Get material samples! Visit the cloth shop (I think there is a street in taipei) you can probably just ask for samples…you don’t need much just a few cm …doing this will help you stand out!

8. Hospital roof garden • Design a roof garden for a hospital. The garden should be a restful and pleasant place for patients, staff and visitors. Consider seating, planted areas and different levels. Think carefully about colour, surface and three-dimensional forms. Provide evidence of visual research, the development of your ideas and a final image of the planned garden. • Visit the gardens of at least 2 hospitals. Take photos, do drawings and take notes…are they nice places to be? Why? How are the patients/families using them? Could they be improved? • Research roof gardens online: type amazing roof gardens into google…youre going to get lots of ideas…collect a selection of the best ones…what makes them good? Would these be suitable for a hospital? Why? Could they be adapted? • Your garden needs to have more than one level…how would people move around between the different areas of your garden? Remember wheelchair access (no stairs!) • What plants will you use? Collect images or suitable plants and trees…will you have water features? Sculptures? What materials will you use…collect images of all of these. • You should plan your garden from above , thinking carefully about the layout and arrangement of your elements…analyse your own drawings. When yu have decided on a plan you like…. • Try drawing it in 3d….use shading and colour to help you show depth and perspective. • Work digitally! Use photoshop and google sketch up (free to download) to help you develop your idea further…you could also make a model and paint/photograph it

9. Urban waterfront sculpture • Design a sculpture for a new urban waterfront development. The theme of the sculpture is water • traders of the past. Research the subject, develop your ideas and produce a final design of the • sculpture in a square or plaza in the waterfront development.