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Year 10 - Art and design

Finding your design style.

Graphic Communications

Unit Summary

This unit introduces pupils to developing their own voice. They will learn about key components in shaping their artistic voice, including research, reflection and refining ideas. The unit takes them on a journey of discovery leading to planning a final piece.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use traditional and digital approaches and remix work in your own design style.

Key Notes

  • Graphic designers might use a combination of traditional and digital approaches.
  • By experimenting with ways of working and the design elements, designers can develop their graphic design style.
  • Nothing is 100% original! Every artist and designer is influenced by something.
  • Designers often take inspiration from other work and places and remix them adding their own twist.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • emulate: studying and copying the style of another designer to learn their techniques
  • remix: taking existing styles, images, or ideas and changing them by adding your own twist to create something new and unique
  • blend: smoothly combining colours, shapes, textures, or images to create a seamless and visually harmonious effect

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Graphic desingers only use digtial tools.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Graphic designers might use a combination of traditional and digital approaches. By experimenting with ways of working and the design elements, designers can develop their graphic design style.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'emulate'

studying and copying the style of another designer to learn their techniques.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Graphic desingers only use digtial tools. Correction: Traditional approaches to graphic design existed before digital tools and are still widely used today.

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