Year 1 Themed Candle Holder Criteria A: Inquiring & Analysing

Key Concept, Related Concepts and Global Context

Look in Managebac to find the following:

1.What is the key concept for this project?

Development

2 What are the related concepts for this project?

Form, Function & Resources

3 What is the global context for this project?

Exploration to Develop:

Creation
Beauty
Products
Craft

Inquiring and Statement of Intent

Look in Managebac to find the statement of inquiry and questions

4 Statement of Inquiry
Which factor drives and influences design the most; form (the way a product looks) or
function (the way a product works) and how does the choice of material and process affect
these?

5 Inquiry Questions

Factual Question
What types of plastic are there?
What types of timber are there?

Conceptual Question

What are the typical requirements for a successful product? How do we decide which is most
important?

Debatable Question

How do designers decide what to do and what to use when making design decisions?
ATL Skills (Approaches to Teaching and Learning)

6 Which ATL skill do you think you want to focus on improving in this stage of the project. How?

Research skills, thinking skills, self management, and time management skills. I can
use my research skills and research on the Mexican identity their tourist hotspots their
best festivals etc, I use my thinking skills to put answers for my questions using my
research, I will use self management skills to manage my document and make sure to
stick on task, I will last use my time management skills to submit the assignment before
or on time.

Assessment
Strand 1
Explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem
The Design Situation
7 Complete the description of the design situation.
 The design situation is that the new global village in India isn’t getting many customers and needs
rebranding so they ask me the designer to rebrand one of their restaurants and give it a nationality
of any country, the country I choose is Mexico.

Explaining the problem

8 Use the following questions to help explain the problem needing to be solved

What is the nature of the problem?

Global village wants to rebrand their restaurants as they are not getting many customers. They
want someone to give their restaurant a touch of nationality of any country I choose. They have
hired me to rebrand one of their restaurants.

Who is it a problem for?

Global Village.

Where is the problem occurring?

Global village

What is the cause of the problem?

Less customers in global village

Justifying the need for a solution

9 Answer the questions
 Why do you want to solve this problem?

How could a solution make things better?

Well rebranding makes the restaurant more popular also gives a different feel towards it, that way
more people want to come and try it out with the new look they will be amused and if they enjoy the
food they might come to the restaurant regularly.

Strand 2
State and prioritise the main points of research needed to develop a solution to the
problem

For this project we will research 2 important areas:

1. Our client has requested that the restaurant interior will be inspired by a national theme, so we
need to research the national culture and identity of a selected country. We can do this through
creating a moodboard/ inspiration board made of images that represent the country. This will
help inspire our ideas.
2. As we are designing a tea light candle holder that will be the centrepiece of each table in the
restaurant we need to research tea-light candle holders. This will help us know what a good
solution should be like.

10. Use the table below to create your own research plan.

Essential
Where will I Primary or
What do I need to find out? Why is this useful? or
search? Secondary?
desirable?
Festive Investigation on Mexico, like This is useful to add a theme to Google images, Primary Desirable
the festival day of the dead which the restaurant festivals are Documentaries,
was originated in mexico. innovative and when your in a Movies like the book
festival its like your in a whole new of life, etc.
world and if you recreate that to a
restaurant it can give another feel
to the restaurant.

Things that represent mexico, This is useful and can help while Google images, Primary Essential
Things mexico is known for like rebranding a lot adding google search,
Tacos or Colorful skull masks. decorations, for example if i history.com,
researched about things that Documentaries and
represent mexico and found the Mexican movies that
colourful skull masks i can use revolve around these
 that to rebrand like in banners i type of things as they
can put skulls or with the name i tend to have things
can put 2 skulls beside it and that represent mexico
when people see the name they as a touch to show
will be like oh that's a cool that its a mexican
restaurant the decoration is movie/tv show.
mexico lets enter.

Materials to use for the Tealight
candle holder.
This is required as we need tea I will ask some people Primary and Essential.
light candle holders. We need to who are kind of secondary
find out flammability, design, experienced of this both.
where to buy. I need flamibility of like my dad. I will also
the candle holder as if the google my matiereals
materials being used are not more and which materials
flammable than the tealight candle can be used.
holder it will not last to long. The
materials are conductors people
cannot touch the holder to put out
a fire if one starts so we will need
glass, find out materials that are
protective and can even show the
design of our candle holder.

If we had a lot of time we could inquire into all the research areas you have listed but in Year 1 we will
only be doing an analysis of existing similar products and researching the restaurant theme.

Strand 3
Describe the main features of one existing product that inspires a solution to the
problem

Research: Product Analysis

11. Select 2 existing products that are similar to the one you need to design; one using primary
research and one using secondary research. For each product complete the analysis below

Product 1 (Primary Research)

What product have you chosen?

Why have you chosen this product?

Insert images of product 1 here.

Annotate the image to describe the main features of the product. Don’t analyse yet.
Product 2 (Secondary Research)

What product have you chosen?

Why have you chosen this product?

Insert images of product 1 here.

Annotate the image to describe the main features of the product. Don’t analyse yet.
Research: Client Research
Insert your moodboard here.
Explain (in 3 sentences or less) how you think it will help inspire your design for a solution to
the problem.
I think this will inspire me as after i did a little research these are the main things ive found
about mexico that are favoured more, This can help in rebranding as this gives an idea of
what mexico is.

Strand 4
Present the main findings of relevant research
Now analyse the 2 products (tea light candleholders) you chose.
Give your reasons and opinions for the design features that you see. Use ACCESSFM
in the support document to help you analyse.

Product 1 (Primary Research)

Appearance

Customer

Cost

Environment

SIze

Safety

Function
Materials

Product 2 (Secondary Research)

Appearance

Customer

Cost

Environment
Size

Safety

Function

Materials

Conclusion of all the Research

20 Conclude on what are the main findings of your research:
1

Design Brief
26 Write the design brief

A design brief is a statement of intent.

It says what the designer intends to do to solve the design problem.

Think about all the analysis you have done so far to understand the situation, the problem and what
is needed for a good solution. Consider your research and analysis to help you write a detailed
brief.

The Design Brief

I am going to design and make a….

ATL Skill Self Evaluation

Read and then think about the following questions before giving your answer below in 3
sentences or less.

● Whilst working on this criteria stage of the project did you try to do things a new way?
● What did you try?
● Did you find a new way to do something helpful?
● Please describe the way the new technique helped you?
● Some examples - using a calendar to get more organized, using notes on cards to help
prepare for standing up and presenting in front of others, using a table to organize data,
using a mind map to explore ideas, sketch ideas in 3D using crating, ask questions to
show you are an active listener
● Explain below what you did to develop your ATL skill and say how successful it was. Refer
back to the target you set at the start of this criteria.
● Which ATL skill did you develop?
● Would you consider yourself now to be a Beginner, Learner, Proficient or Experienced?