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Year 10 - Art and design

Inside and outside in Graphic Communication

Themes within Graphic Communication

Unit Summary

Pupils can select or rotate through these units that feature diverse and inclusive artist references, consider application of their skill strengths and encourage critical thinking and personal connections.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to review the range of ways designers have been inspired by inside and outside.

Key Notes

  • Designers can represent physical and psychological boundaries through interior and exterior spaces.
  • Designers might use framing, perspective and scale to connect or separate inside and outside spaces.
  • Designs can explore the relationship between personal, private spaces and wider, public or natural settings.
  • Some graphic designers explore the boundary between external appearance and internal experience.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • space: the area around, between and within objects. It can be physical, like a room, or it can be visual
  • threshold: a point of change, a space between two different areas
  • barrier: things that block, separate, or divide spaces, people, or ideas
  • framing: how an artist chooses to surround or crop a subject in an artwork

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • "Inside" and "outside" in design always refers to physical spaces, like buildings or rooms.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Designers can represent physical and psychological boundaries through interior and exterior spaces. Designers might use framing, perspective and scale to connect or separate inside and outside spaces.

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

the area around, between and within objects. It can be physical, like a room, or it can be visual.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: "Inside" and "outside" in design always refers to physical spaces, like buildings or rooms. Correction: In design, "inside" and "outside" can mean more than places — they can show how someone feels on the inside, how people hide emotions, or the contrast between personal and public life.

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