Yr 8 Photoshop Skills Rock Star Project
This is an exemplar piece of work by Jamie Lam in 8D. She has developed a love for design and photoshop. She has been spending hours researching the tool and has documented her process over and beyond. Her end result is original and creative; this has been a excellent model for your classmates. You are all set for the IE Award Jamie. Great Job. Mrs Burrough
Mr R’s Designer of the Week
It has been a while since I have identified someone who I wanted to celebrate as my designer of the week so it good to have the opportunity now. This week I would like to celebrate Wenxi. We have been working on the creative process in the design of our clocks. Wenxi has come up with a really nice idea and modelled it extremely well in preparation for he lesson where we start to take this into Adobe Illistrator for development. I look forward to seeing the result.
Designer of the Week
Riya can you tell me about your laptop sleeve?
My laptop sleeve is designed for teenagers who like band music, this is why I chose to put on logos of bands on the front part of the sleeve. I designed the front and back cover on photoshop which took a lot of editing, adding pictures and positioning them. After I finished designing the front and back cover, I transferred the document onto the computer in the textiles room, then printed it onto my fabric. I sewed everything together (I also added a zipper) and I was really impressed with the final outcome.
Ranen – featured student designer
I wanted to post this picture to celebrate Ranen’s work. We have been trying in year 8 to develop creative approaches to design and Ranen really responded with his clock numbers. I love the interlinked typography he has come up with. Additionally a happy accident with the laser cutter meant that he had to cut one part twice. He plans to use this unexpected extra piece to cheat a bit more 3 dimensionality to his outcome. Good stuff!
Mr R’s Designer of the Week (so far!) :)
Some great work coming out from aika these past couple of weeks makes here my designer of the week. Not only is she a talented graphic artist, she responded well to guidance on how to maximise the potential of her design so that it performs well in the context and material. This shows a great willingness to be open about her thinking and is a quality needed for great design. Well done!
Mr R’s designer of the week
This week my designer of the week is Pria. I really liked the way she has taken on board the design strategies we have looked at and applied them to her design work for the MP3 speaker. Well done Pria!!
More year 9 lamp outcomes
Some more of my Yr 9’s completed their lamps today with excellent results well done Isabelle and Jisoo. I love the lighting effect created by jisoo’s lamp. Can’t wait to see how isabelles looks in a darker space.
Mr Roper’s Designer of the Week
This week my designer of the week is Justin. He completed his lamp which he has worked hard to finish to a high standard over the last few weeks. The concept with the lamp is what is really interesting. Instead of just being a simple lamp the fact that the top part is changeable allows for kits to be made that could effectively change the lamp design and allow it to be flat packed easier. This is great design thinking. Well done Justin!!
Designers of the week – “Pointing” in the right direction…
Ann and Anna (Y10) of the 3D Product Design Elements class took on a nautical theme this week in the “Speed Innovation Challenge”. Students were tasked with designing an making an innovative product from a set list of materials, with only 3 hours to brainstorm, design, develop and manufacture!
All outcomes were impressive given the time and resource restrictions, with two designers, Ann He (10E) and Anna Choi (10W), sailing away with the most intricate design. They produced an ornamental, nautical compass from only two of their available resources (sustainable minds?) and applied some advanced metalworking skills (on the metal working lathe) to engineer precise fittings for their compass.
Each pair will be applying their best sales tactics to try and persuade the remainder of the class to invest in their product, based on their competitive marketing strategies. Will it be sink or swim for the designers of the week? Find out next week!
Year 9 finished lighting
Well it’s taken a while but the lighting project is starting to reach its end with some final products being realised. These students have all worked hard to achieve high quality outcomes. What has been really encouraging is the commitment to quality right to the end which demonstrates growing maturity as designers. These lights are by Douglas, Aayush, Wing and Krishna.
