1. Welcome to GCSE Product Design!
What do I have to do?
What is it?
Welcome to GCSE Product Design!
I should be good at...?
This is the subject for me if I want to become a...

2. What is GCSE Product Design?
This is your chance to get creative! You will be asked to find new design solutions for existing problems.
It’s versatile! Product Design can be Resistant Materials, Graphics, Food or Textiles.
You will learn about famous designers and look at iconic products which have helped to shape the world we live in.
...and you will be able to use many skills which you have learned in other subjects!

3. What do I have to do? Year 10: A variety of designing and making tasks
Advanced Innovation Challenge – practical exam
Year 11:
Developing and Applying Design Skills (coursework)
Making, Testing and Marketing (coursework)
Designing Influences – written exam

4. Product Design is for you if....
...you can look at your environment and identify problems with existing designs
...you can think “outside the box” and come up with unusual ideas
...you can explain your choices and decisions to others
...enjoy working with a variety of tools and materials
...you enjoy sketching and using design software and modelling materials

5. Future careers: Product Design Engineering Automotive
Graphics/ Illustration
Packaging design
Architecture
Media/ Marketing/ Advertising
Furniture Design
Industrial Design
....and much more!