Design Unit: Critical Essay.
This page will help you with your design essay. It will it will show you how to tackle one designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. From there you can tackle a designer of your choice.

Before you start print out these work sheets:
Blank work sheet - MS Word Format,
Sample work sheet.
Writing the final essay -guidelines
Important web Sites:
CRM Society,
Design Museum,
Dutch Design Museum,
Sample Essay.
How will find all you need to start with at this site. CRM Society
Investigations:
Step 1. Collect a LITTLE about Mackintosh’s life;
Step 2. Go to Google and find out a little Art Nouveau and print one picture of an Art Nouveau design.
Step 3. Print at least one Mackintosh Design you like. Also print out any details about that design you can find.
What to do with the information.
Step 4. Look at the sample sheet will show you how to complete it. It discusses a Mackintosh chair. Key words or phrases are all that are needed.
Step 5. Complete a blank worksheet it will help you collect the important information. Print this sheet out.
Step 6. Choose a second designer whose work you like. Good starting points are these sites – Design Museum (the education packs are good) or Dutch museum.
With this new designer repeat Steps 1 - 5
Now what?
If you have not already done so look at this worksheet Writing the final essay -guidelines. it will give guidelines on how to write your final essay. Take your notes from your worksheets and expand them into an essay of more than 600 words.
 
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