Grade 8 T-Shirt Project, C&S
How can we create a successful design?
Knowledge of a clients needs is essential for successful design.
| The community and service strand of the Areas of Interaction emphasis the importance of all of us 'acting in response to the needs of the community'. There is also a learning expectation that students are 'involved through service' Well our Middle School community needs a T-shirt and it is your job to design one! Middle School students wear a specially designed hat and T-shirt on their field
trips each year.
If you have been on a Field Trip before and complained about the designs, then this your chance to make the world a better place, well, the Middle School anyway. We will look at what makes a great design and explore the latest trends in fashion. Knowledge of your client's needs is essential for successful design and we will explore the likes and dislikes of our fellow students, both boys and girls. You will work on your own and use the design cycle to create a hat and T-shirt
design. One design will be chosen to be printed for next year. This T-shirts will be worn by the teachers and students of the Middle School. Make a good one, We might have to wear yours! |
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| Winning T-Shirt 2006 by Carina Tran |
The Design Brief
Before you can can start a design project you must know the ‘problem’ to solve. Sometimes this may be given to you as a question set by the teacher or in business a client will ask you to solve a problem or create a product for them. It is usually a short paragraph of writing that sets out their objectives. The ‘design brief’ includes the following:
- Challenge - (Background / The actual problem) - A short sentence that describes the main problem to be solved. i.e. The Middle school go on a field trip every year and the school community would like to leave with a common identity.
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Response - (The Designer's Task / What the successful design will do) - What you as a designer must create / what the successful design must achieve. die. The school needs a T-shirt and hat that can be worn by all our students and represents us on our trips.
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Task 1. Write a design brief. |
Write a design brief as one complete paragraph under the heading," Design Brief."
T-shirt rubric here. Objectives here
Examples of student work here
Move on to investigation here
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