Information Board
- Builds and improves on the Bus shelter skills and abilities
- Allows for differentiation by outcome through an open design context
- Expandable into graphics and other broader issues of information sharing
- Open design and make activity
Aim:
To produce a scale model which will include a major element of Graphic Design
Purpose:
A design and make activity where graphics and communication are an equal part
Background:
As part of Harchester regeneration and following your current success with similar projects, you have also been asked by the council to design a series of new information boards for the town, to go around Harchester at key points to help inform visitors, local people and to strengthen the new town’s brand image.
CLIENT:
Harchester Council
TASK:
You will need to produce a range of ideas and a scaled model of your chosen design to show the Council, as planning permission may need to be sorted.
OUTCOMES:
- A range of ideas to be presented to the council in a form of your choice
- A scale model of the design that you feel is the best option, and you must ensure you can explain why
Portfolio containing:
- records of relevant research to inform the design
- progress journal – your ideas (how could you make the information board more interactive or interesting? using what you have learnt from your research)
- annotation – what skills, materials, techniques, process have been used and what messages are being communicated?
Final Model:
- Made to scale, accurate model using a variety of materials
Suggested Target Year Group:
Year 10
The links below will take you to a range of support materials and examples: