What is Product Design

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What is Product Design the design style
questions in the coming exam

• You will be given a full design question in the
  paper, here is an example from the AQA mark
  scheme of how they will mark your paper
• Use this time to plan what material you will
  describe and the processes
• Remember at this stage you do not know what they
  will ask you to design!

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Question in the paper 2008 You have been asked
to pick a material area you are familiar
with Textiles Food Resistant Materials
Electronics Product Design What they have asked
you to do! A school is having a design show,
they want the DT department to make a range of
goods that create the word DESIGN, pick one
material you are familiar with.
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You will be marked on!

• You will be marked on the notes, sketches and
  step-by-step stages of the processThey want you
  to draw sketches of each stage if you can, add
  colour to the final product, annotation/notes
  please.

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Naming the equipment and processes for your
design question if making from a resistant
material!

• Any named plastic or metal but not plastic or
  metal
• Mild steel, wrought iron. Accept any named metal
  but not metal
• Every stage of production has been identified and
  fully explained. (4 marks)
• Drawings clear and sequential and easy to follow.
  (3 marks)

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How you could describe the process for making
your design question product!

• Cast/moulded or vacuum formed.
• Candidates might interpret this example very
  differently.
• Casting prepare mould in sand using wooden
  pattern or machine shape in reverse into MDF or
  Necuron foam (sometimes described as plastic
  wood).
• Heat metal (aluminium for sand casting, pewter
  for die casting) and pour into mould. When cool
  remove and cut off excess metal using hacksaw and
  file. Polish.