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Grade(s): Higher
Author(s): David McMillan & Mark Leishman
ISBN: 9781843724773
This A5 highly practical colour handbook delivers targeted guidance, examples and skills-building exercises to help students unlock the secrets of assessment and the Higher exam. As well as exam-orientated notes on all examinable topics supported by colour illustrations and photographs, students can access real students� design folios to see best practice for support with their own design assessment. Units address:
Contents
Introduction
- When should I use this book?
- How should I use this book?
- Preparing for assessment
- Higher Product Design:rationale
- Course Structure
- Assessment
- Having a study plan
- Thing about applying to university?
- Entrance qualifications
- Portfolio
- Calculating your UCAS points
- University courses
Design History
- Introduction to design history
- Art Nouveau
- Charles Rennie MacIntosh
- De Stijl
- Bauhaus
- Art Deco
- 1950s and 1960s Style
- Postmodernism
Design Assignment
- Introduction
- Contents of the design assignment
- Design situation
- Research
- Choosing the design task
- What are you expected to produce
- Section 1: Generating initial ideas
- Section 2: Design development
- Good practice exemplars
The Written Paper
- Preparing for the written exam
- Dividing the whole course into nine topics
- Revising for question 1
Skill Builders
- Thinking and research
- Development
- Useable products
- Aesthetic development
- Manufacturing development
- Design task
- Practice design assignment
Price: £10.99
* Evaluation copies are available to teachers only
Web links
The following web links are available:
- Free Learning Lab Resources
Our Learning Lab resources and website links are designed to be used in conjunction with our books for extra study support to help you gain the grade you really deserve!
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