Packaging

The role of graphics and packaging (so frequently addressed in Design and Technology lessons where creative ideas can be over looked in favour of technique) is a key area of the Art & Design curriculum simply because it is so good at developing an interest even with de-motivated students. How often students have said to me that they’d like to be a graphic designer when they leave school, when their understanding of it was so limited and based on misleading ideas. Nonetheless, students have a very real interest in design generally and this can be tapped into. Again, this unit provides opportunities to incorporate ICT, perhaps to stretch the more able or to support students with special educational needs.