Teaching Ideas for Design and Layout in Graphic Products
This is based on the students designing graphic products for the music industry (e.g. a solo artist or group); the focus should be a simulation and become client based so make your brief suggest that the students work for a design production company who have been asked to create new flyers (front and back), CD covers (front, back and inserts inside the CD itself) and posters for this new music star.
As their client, you will need to have regular meetings with them to make sure that they have gained appropriate feedback to help them revisit their work and make suitable changes before finally presenting to a focus group and the client again.
AO1 – Analyse a range of graphic design products
The students will need to look at Four products for this assessment objective; you could specify what to look at: posters, flyers, brochures and CD covers all linked to the music industry so that there is a link between what they are physically looking at and what they will go on to produce for future assessment objectives.
This assessment objective could be presented on A3 paper with the product in the middle, clearly marked with annotations, to clearly reference its fitness for purpose, target audience, content, format and actual design and layout.
The students may have flyers for...
