For this term’s Design and Technology, our task was to make electric posters. We starting by learning what we actually mean by design and particularly information design. We looked at places where we might find examples of information design: road signs, menus, billboards etc.
We then turned our attention specifically to museums where we can find lots of information design. The British Museum have a fantastic online virtual tour so we could wander through some exhibitions from the comfort of our classroom. We only needed five minutes to spot many examples of information design. The brief for our electric poster was to create an information poster for an exhibition about the stone age. We already have lots of information about the stone age from our history lessons so there was no shortage of ideas for what our posters could be about.
Once we had self-evaluated and peer-evaluated our designs, it was time to create our final design before making the posters electrical. We did this by leaving a space on our poster for a lightbulb so we could direct our reader’s attention to a specific part of the poster. By making a hole in the space, we could squeeze our light bulb through so the head is on the front and the back is behind. Once the bulb was screwed into a bulb holder it could be attached to a circuit including crocodile wires and batteries. After it was checked that the circuit was working, we taped everything to the back of the poster and learned that to turn the bulb off, we have to disconnect the circuit. To turn the bulb back on, we have to reconnect the circuit.
I hope everyone had lots of fun
with the deigns and the steps because everyone’s looked great.