BTEC
1ST YR EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN ART &
DESIGN
DESIGN
DIARY SUMMER PROJECT: NEW DESIGNERS
PART
2 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Unit 5: Contextual Influences in Art
and Design
This project is part 2 of the work to cover unit 5 and in
addition to your first year essay and the review of our art exhibition will
cover the criteria required for this. The Design Diary is an ongoing resource that
can be added to at a later date and something that will be taken to interview
to show you are aware of the history and the contemporary context of your
specialist area.
Ø From your visit to New Designers pick 4
artists or designers from your chosen specialist area that you are strongly
drawn to. At least one of these should be from the ‘One Year On’ room which is
practitioners who have been out in industry for a year already.
Ø Answer the questions 1-9. Present this written work within your design
diary. Produce 15 A4 pages showing a
coherent analysis of this work.
Inventively present this, using photographs, postcards and other
information Comments should be in as much detail as possible and have the
analysis and evaluation of an essay.
Ø Make
your own responses to this work by producing 2 responses to each
artist/designer- 8 in all. Spend time on
these trying to create as professional a look as possible. Use manual or digital ways of working to
respond.
Try to answer the following questions, many of the
exhibitors will be in spaces and you can talk to them directly. If you cannot find out the answers to these
easily try being creative, try emailing the artist (you can pick up business
cards in most spaces) or using face book, or following a blog/website to gain
information on them.
Start by identifying your practitioner and the
institution/course they have just been studying on.
1. What is their work like? How would you describe it? What makes them stand out from other
exhibitors for you? What techniques or processes do you think they use?
2. Who do
you think has influenced them and what is their work like? Have things such as - politics, music,
fashion, changes in materials or technology processes had an effect? Can you
identify influences and compare or contrast their work to other practitioners?
3. What
themes or ideas are in their work? How do these designers communicate messages
or meaning within their work? What
logos, slogans, visual imagery or mark-making do they utilise to produce their
work?
4. Who
are some of the clients they have worked for? What internships do they have planned? Can you document this work and give examples
of large and small commissions/ jobs they have covered?
5. Give
evidence of quotes, opinions and comments from other people if available . These may be from catalogues, newspaper
cuttings, websites, TV programmes, blogs, face book etc. The more variety of information, the more interesting your diary. You should find this easier with the “One
Year On” designers, but often a little persistence will unearth good
information.
6. Why
have you chosen these artists/designers to analyse? What relevance does their work have on your
own interests? Do you use similar
techniques? Do the concepts/ideas they promote appeal to you? Is it that you
find the markmaking original, messages in adverts inventive, appreciate the quality
of drawing in a digitally printed textile design etc.? Please elaborate as much as possible.
7. What
materials, processes and technology have they adopted that have shaped their
ideas and given the work a distinctive style.
8. Produce
8 sustained responses to the designers you have looked at (minimum 6, 2 for
each artist/designer) by making samples, experiments, drawings, typography in
the style of this work to show your interests.
Present this in an appropriate way next to your analysis.
Presentation:
Within the presentation of your selected work you should
concentrate on good page layout, effective composition, choice of colour and
materials. You may present your thoughts anyway you wish as long as it complements and reflects the topic. Images should be varied in the way they are
presented, some photocopied, some hand-drawn.
Assemble your text and image and be prepared to move items around until
you get a balanced composition.
Do:
o Type
out your opinion on paper, put acetate over the top of images to layer them.
o Combine
an image and text effectively, varying scale, surface and repetitive effects.
o Print
out good quality images on good paper (matt or glossy photo paper ideally).
o Title
things accurately and consistently giving dates and media.
o Analyse
intelligently and articulately (this may mean writing ideas
in rough first).
o Give
your opinions backed up with others’ quotes and comments - put quotes in
inverted commas (i.e. “.....”). List/credit your sources wherever possible.
o Assemble
images and related works so that the explanation is related rather than
arbitrary.
o Consider
- cutting, tearing, photocopying onto acetate overlaying, using Letraset,
painting, scratching on to images, using fold outs, tracing paper
sections, overlaid text, collage, photographs - Polaroids, digital print-outs,
etc.
o Use
Pritt Stick or another card and paper glue to stick things down that won’t
buckle your images.
Don’t:
o use
illegible fonts because it looks a bit different, keep it simple.
o use felt pen in handwriting over images.
o use felt pen in handwriting over images.
o use
paint straight out from the pot without mixing it and thick textured paint over
everything.
o use
tissue paper in large quantities.
o use
PVA to stick anything down as it makes everything wrinkled.
o slant
images on the page.
o Use sponge,
glitter or double mount.
o print
out others’ opinions and present them as your own.
o try to
make the presentation so busy that the written text is illegible - this is not
what is required.
o download
information on artists and simply stick this into your sketchbook. Instant referral!
Minimum Submission Requirements:
• 15 x A3/A4 sides of
your existing design diary
documenting 4 artists\designers from New Designers. This should include at least 8 sustained visual responses to the artists/
designers you have looked at.
Deadline: Sept 2015
first day back Part 1 and Part 2 ( the
design diary as well as review of one person within our own exhibition) is due back for first day back at College in September when books will be submitted for
final marking for unit 5. Make sure you allow yourself enough time to complete this
project. Start it early, whilst the
exhibition is fresh in your mind - don’t leave it until the last minute.
