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KS5 COURSE OVERVIEW - PRODUCT DESIGN

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT: MR C UMPLEBY

Course Content

Design and Technology Product Design offers candidates the opportunity to acquire and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the world of designing and making and to demonstrate their own technological capabilities through the design and making of quality outcomes. Students will also develop an appreciation of the complex relations between design materials, manufacture and marketing.

All candidates should be able to apply their knowledge and understanding to:

  • Designing – Design a product to a specification
  • Making – Use materials, components, processes and techniques and equipment to produce quality products to a specification.

AS Product Design has three units

  • Unit 1:

    • Students will investigate and work in a variety of resistant materials to gain a greater understanding of the properties, cost and availability which influence the choice of materials in design situations.
Written Paper 30% of the total AS marks
1½ hours (15% of the total A level marks)
  • Unit 2:
    • Students develop a wider understanding of the designed world. It will include an appreciation of line, shape, form, proportion, colour, movement and texture within a critical awareness of aesthetics. It will also include appraisals of manufactured goods. Students will create outcomes which display originality and excellence.

Coursework

Approx. 50 hours

 40% of total AS marks

(20% of total A level marks)

Either project work and/or a portfolio of coursework which will contain aspects of industrial and commercial practice.

  • Unit 3:
    • Students will study a broad range of manufacturing systems used to make and finish materials used in the production of commercial products. Through critical appraisal of specified products candidates will gain an understanding of how materials and components are utilised to become finished products.

Written Paper

2 hours

 30% of the total AS marks

(15% of the total A level marks)

 

All the questions are compulsory and will be based on a theme sent to Centres in March. This paper will assess primarily Design and Market influences.

Three further units could be completed to form a full A level.

Higher Education and Careers

Design and Technology Product Design is an excellent qualification in its own right, it can also be used as a stepping stone into Higher or Further Education to study a variety of subjects such as 3D Design, Graphic Design, Architecture, Engineering or Arts courses and many others.


Entry Requirements

Candidates should have completed a GCSE Design and Technology course attaining Grade C or above in any area of the subject.

Candidates embarking on this course should be committed and well disciplined individuals enthusiastic to develop skills as designers.