1. Invention Logo Magnets
Technology/Design

2. Inventions throughout history--
Are inventors artists?

3. How do inventors/artists combine form and function?
Yanko Designs:

4. "Words are easily forgotten, but pictures stay in our minds
"Words are easily forgotten, but pictures stay in our minds." - Paul Lester.
How do these use images to describe and sell the product?

5. Now it is your turn…
What is something that you have always wanted to be able to do?
Something that would make things easier?

6. Lesson Objectives:
Students will create a list of things they wish they were able to do.
Choosing an item from their list, students will sketch out an invention that enables them to accomplish this goal.
Students will bring in their favorite logos, and, in groups, figure out what attracts them to these particular logos.
Students will create an effective and visually attractive logo including the name and sketched design using the program Gimp and print them onto magnetic paper.
Students will share their invention logo with the class.

7. Time to create your own logo… Logos throughout history:

8. “We are becoming a visually medicated society
“We are becoming a visually medicated society. For many, understanding of the world is being accomplished, not through reading words, but by reading images.” –Paul Lester
What do they all have in common?

9. Think outside the box and have FUN!!