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Use another designer's distinctive style as inspiration for your own work, or as a way of re-styling or improving existing solutions.

1) Collect, select and present information about a designer's work and the techniques that they use to create with.

Then... 

2) Re-design an existing product or product range in the style of that designer ...or...Use the designer's signature style when generating your own design solutions 

(Click images for exemplar work)

(Also check out the Google Doodles archive)

Collect and present useful information about the Designer or Company

 

•  What is the name of the designer/studio/company?

•  What are they best known for?

•  Which are typical or excellent examples of their work? Collect and present them - annotate the images.

•  The visual style can be defined as:

•  What methods of working, materials, and techniques are used by them?

From the AQA GCSE Design Technology Specification 2021:

Students should investigate, analyse and evaluate the work of past and present designers and companies to inform their own designing.

Students should investigate the work of a minimum of two of the following designers:

  • Harry Beck
  • Marcel Breuer
  • Coco Chanel
  • Norman Foster
  • Sir Alec Issigonis
  • William Morris
  • Alexander McQueen
  • Mary Quant
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany
  • Raymond Templer
  • Marcel Breuer
  • Gerrit Reitveld
  • Charles Rennie Macintosh
  • Aldo Rossi
  • Ettore Sottsass
  • Philippe Starck
  • Vivienne Westwood.

Students should investigate the work of a minimum of two of the following companies:

  • Braun
  • Dyson
  • Apple
  • Alessi
  • Under Armour
  • Zara
  • Gap
  • Primark.