Great video promoting the quality of craftsmanship that this American company instills.
Hollenwolff buy some cufflinks…
Category: Design
Students Skin V8 Supercars
This is just a follow up to an earlier post about a competition my Graphics Technology class became involved in towards the end of last year.
I’ve recently received an promotional email regarding the V8 Supercar skinning challenge that my Graphics class were involved in. I’m not sure if the quote of mine below was a direct quote, oh well, now I know how politicians feel.
A joint project between the V8 Supercars Students on Track program, Brad Jones Racing and the NSW Department of Education and Communities Rural and Distance Education has piloted providing the real world application for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in schools. Sixty students from Mudgee, Coonabarabran, and Monaro High Schools have been inspired to master Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator design programs applying their skills to an authentic industry application.
Brad Jones Racing, based in Albury NSW, generously opened its doors and supplied their race car design templates and sponsors’ logos for the project. Led by Brad Jones Racing’s graphic designer Brad Norman “Mr Stickers” and Kim Ireland from Rural and Distance Education the students were taught to successfully design race car liveries “in the round” through a series of video conferences and in school class work.
Mudgee High School teacher Mick O’Sullivan said that “This project inspired students to really learn Photoshop and Illustrator. It’s been a fantastic opportunity. Our students were rewarded with an excursion to the V8 Supercars Telstra 500 in Sydney.”
“The pilot has been a great success” says David Foley Manager of the NSW DEC Rural and Distance Education Technology Unit. “Now we want to extend the same opportunity to many more students in 2013.”
IDEO The Deep Dive
During my university days we watched a great short video series about the American design firm IDEO called The Deep Dive. I remember at the time being told that we’d have to order the tape (VHS!) from the ABC in the U.S. well advance a decade into future and we have the wonderful resource called Youtube. So thanks to Youtube, here it is in 3 parts. And I thoroughly recommend it for any design student.
Great new project idea
Woodworking for Mere Mortals is one of my favourite Youtube channels, one that all Industrial Arts teachers should regularly check out. Over the summer break (Australia) they posted this little beauty, a charging station which I think may fit in nicely with my Industrial Technology Timber Core 1 course in 2013 seeing that the iPod Classic Dock that we made earlier in the year is now out of date and not suitable for the current devices. The students will need to think about some modifications due to the heat build-up in this project which will give them the opportunity to do some research and make some design decisions of their own.
Download the plans and Sketchup model from Steve’s great website
3D printing, the emerging technology
Shapeways is one of several companies producing products for other people, using modern collaboration technologies and a growing ability for more people to produce 3d models.
Design – Cup Noodles story in Manga
I bought a Manga comic years ago off the sale table at Impact Comics in the ACT not knowing exactly what it was, but while reading it I realised that it may be the perfect Design resource for some students. Unfortunately at the time nobody seemed very interested in my find or my love of graphic novels. I did get a program for boys literacy and engaging reluctant readers going at my previous school, and had a class set of this book. Project X Cup Noodles was one of three Manga novels in a series on Japanese innovation, the others being 7-11 stores and Nissan. Unfortunately it looks as though it’s no longer in print, sad. It had some wonderful timelines and charts in the back which showed the development of ideas and directly related them to events of the era. If you can find it I highly recommend it to anyone interested in design.
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