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Creative Generation: Design
The first Creative Generation: Design program engaged 16 senior design students from metropolitan and regional Queensland as co-designers of an interactive exhibition space at the Queensland Art Gallery. Explore this resource to develop your own design responses to the ‘Creative Generation: Design’ exhibition.
Drawing Objects
Explore the relationship between art and design through drawing, objects and ideas. Find, observe, sketch and record objects that remind you of people, places and moments of importance in your life.
Hexagon Letter Fold
The hexagon letter fold is an exercise with direct links to the concept of slow design, an approach to design that invites people to slow down, to think and act in more local and sustainable ways. The fold requires people to slow down and make something simple with zero waste.
Curriculum Links
Design in Practice: explore a variety of design styles through the ‘Art & Design Gallery’ in the Creative Generation: Design exhibition. Experience design and work through design processes with references to the work of Creative Generation: Design students.
Commercial Design: respond to mini-design challenges and respond to a range of low-fidelity prototyping exercises. Work collaboratively to present design ideas and prototypes into collective displays that communicate concepts to audiences/clients.
Human-Centred Design: Creative Generation: Design students were inspired by ‘Slow Design’ to help people slow down and find ways to connect. Consider the relationships between objects and people by exploring the objects in the ‘Art & Design Gallery’ and through responding to the hexagon letter fold activity.
Sustainable Design: learn about objects in the ‘Art & Design Gallery’ that are made from sustainable materials and found objects and respond to design challenges through engaging with objects and people in your local context.