Create an applied design CMT 8-4
Implementing procedures to create an applied design for a specified product requires students to learn how applied designs and complex procedures can be used to create specified products.
Learning objective: CMT 8-4
Students will:
- implement complex procedures to create an applied design for a specified product.
Indicators
- Interprets a complex design to determine an applied design medium suited to the product.
- Trials to determine the equipment, materials, and complex techniques required to create the design.
- Undertakes appropriate tests to demonstrate the applied design enhances the product as specified.
- Applies complex techniques that comply with relevant health and safety regulations.
- Shows independence and accuracy in implementing complex procedures to create applied designs for specified products.
- Undertakes complex procedures in a manner that economises time, effort, tooling, and materials when implementing complex procedures to create an applied design for a specified product.
Progression
Initially students learn about materials, the basic techniques commonly used to work them, and the relationship between these. At level 8 students' progress to learning about advanced techniques required to craft special features and the complex concepts and processes involved in material construction and embellishment.
Teacher guidance
To support students to implement complex procedures to create an applied design for a specified product at level 8, teachers could support students to:
- interpret complex designs and determine applied design mediums suited to products
- trial a range of complex techniques to determine the equipment and materials required to create an applied design that enhance products
- apply complex techniques that comply with relevant health and safety regulations
- develop independence and accuracy in implementing complex procedures to create applied designs for specified products
- implement complex procedures in a manner that economises time, effort, tooling, and materials when implementing complex procedures to create an applied design for a specified product. This may be through completing a range of individual products and/or projects/activities.
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Contexts for teaching and learning
This learning objective could be used in conjunction with other objectives such as outcome development, the use of CNC machines, and the critique and analysis of design. Students should see a purpose for the inclusion of applied design in an outcome and develop a range of skills in order to ensure appropriate design and application of applied embellishments.
- Students will develop and create an applied design for a specified product that will enhance the aesthetics of the outcome. This requires specifications for the product, which need to be detailed, measurable, and of sufficient rigour to allow the student to meet the learning objective. The specifications can be provided by the teacher or developed by the student (refer to AAS91623 explanatory note 6).
- Students develop and create an applied design for a product. (For examples of applied design mediums and associated equipment refer to AAS91623 explanatory note 3 and AAS91623 explanatory note 4).
- The students may be given a complex design or choose from a range of designs given by the teacher, or may be at the point in their technological practice where they are ready to trial a design prior to applying it to an outcome.
- Students need to implement complex procedures to create the applied design, choose a design medium, and apply this to a product. The complexity of the design may be to do with the combining of many parts of a design or the design itself, features of the material the product is made from or the applied design medium chosen. Ensure that the materials and techniques chosen are of sufficient rigour to allow students to meet the learning objective (see also AAS91623 explanatory note 7).
- Support students to analyse the composition and structure of materials to develop an understanding of how their properties can be altered or improved through manipulation and how this impacts on the performance of the end product.
- Encourage students to trial/practise a range of applied design techniques using different mediums and use evaluation to inform the decisions made in determining those suitable to create the applied design for a specified product. Evaluation should include appropriate tests to ensure the applied design is fit for purpose and is executed accurately (refer to explanatory note 5 and explanatory note 8).
- Support students to explore and analyse evaluative procedures that could be used to justify materials suitability for a chosen applied design technique with regard to developing an understanding of how evaluation enables decisions to be made to ensure fitness for purpose.
Literacy considerations
Students will be supported to develop systems to capture evidence of their development for assessment and moderation purposes which may form a part of a larger portfolio of evidence.
Resources to support student achievement
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Assessment for qualifications
The following achievement standard could assess learning outcomes from this learning objective:
- AS91623 Construction and mechanical technologies 3.23: Implement complex procedures to create an applied design for a specified product
Key messages from the standard
Applied design mediums may include:
- beads
- fabric
- fibre
- yarn
- dyes
- paint
- leather
- wood
- metals
- and resin.
Equipment may include:
- printers
- embroidery
- knitting
- smocking and quilting machines
- needle punch tools
- brushes
- screens
- casting moulds
- spray guns
- airbrushes
- chisels
- and CNC machines.
Complex techniques may include:
- screen printing for example, large image, multiple printing colours, close tolerance, special inks
- embroidery for examples, large image, or small image requiring definition, multiple threads, use of metallic threads, special registration requirements, difficult placement on product
- appliqué for example, large image, tight curves in design, multiple inner points, difficult fabrics, metallic threads
- beading
- smocking
- carving
- inlaying
- cut work including laser cutting.
A specified product refers to a product with specifications that require an application of a complex design for the purpose of aesthetic enhancement. Explanatory note 7 states that tests may include but are not limited to: measuring, trialling techniques, fitting, and visual checks to ensure the product functions as intended.
Last updated May 23, 2018
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