Critical Activity – Design - Charles Rennie Mackintosh

There are links embedded in this document to help you navigate. This page will Charles Rennie Mackintosh as a starting point and an example. Your essay need not be about Mackintosh. You are asked to collect material on a second designer. He could be the main topic of your essay. You could use him to contrast with your favourite designer.

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Target 1 - Collect Information on Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Target 2  - Collect information on Second Designer.
Target 3 - Choose and Collect – Choose your favourite designs and  collect more information
Target 4 - Describe and give Opinions - #Sample_Worksheet
First draft of essay.

Target 1 - Collect Information on Charles Rennie Mackintosh
What to collect.
Basic facts of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s life
A little about Art Nouveau - use Google to find out more about Art Nouveau
Collect Images and information on Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s.
At least one of each of - Interior Building- Furniture - Charles Rennie Mackintosh design -used today.
Where to Start – Click to start collecting material link to Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society web site
You can cut and paste the information both text and images into a word processor
Highlight significant facts.
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Target 2 - Collect information on Second Designer
Some basic facts on their life and training.
Collect Images and information on another designer.
At least one of example of each of - Interior- Building- Furniture- if possible.
Starting at this stage they need not be by the same designer.
Make sure to note the details about the designer and design that you can.
Starting Point.http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/fda02.htm This site contains lots of images.
With lots of images and more textual information try this site.
Design Museum Education Packs
Use Google to find out more about any designer that Interests you Go back to targets
Target 3  - – Choose and Collect –
Choose your favourite designer and collect more information -use Google
Choose designs you like, you might find it useful to focus on one of the three categories listed above: Interior,Building,Furniture. If necessary collect additional information and pictures.
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Task 4– Describe and give your Opinions
Below is a worksheet to help you consider your chosen designers -finding the right words can be hard discuss it with your parents.

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	Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Describe	Start writing in this column
Appearance	Tall , stretched, lots of rectangles
Material	Wood  - varnished
How it was made	By joiner
Use	Posh dinning table
Other Comments
Opinions
Appearance	Simple elegant stylishORPlain dull, lacks any excitement
Material	Natural, comfortable, would suit house OR Too plain, too easily damaged
How it was made	Simple shapes, easy to make - cheap and affordable OR Made too easily (mass produced) help make it dull
Use	Too nice for kitchen but would look good dinning room OR Odd shape would make it difficult for it to fit in a normal room
Other Comments	Designed some time ago but Charles Rennie Mackintosh's design still look good in the modern house such as my own OR Lacks excitement, drab and wouldn't fit into a modern house.

Developing your notes - taking the two Appearance entries as an example.,
Describe: Tall , stretched, lots of rectangles
Opinion:  Simple elegant stylish
The notes you made under the two Appearance sections (see above) could be developed as follows:
" I found appearance of Mackintosh chairs very attractive. They were tall and  with several stretched rectangular shapes that made the look very elegant. The were simple and stylish and despite being almost 100 years old they still look could in a modern dinning room."

Describe	Start writing in this column
Appearance
Material
How it was made
Use
Other Comments
Opinions
Appearance
Material
How it was made
Use
Other Comments

 
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Overview
Introduction. 50 –75 words
Main Body,Favourite designer 400 – 600 words
Design 1
Design 2, you can discuss more than two.
You can write about more than two designs.
Design3 – Compare and contrast main designer with second designer 50 – 75 word
Conclusion - 50 - 75

Introduction
1.Say whom you are going to write about
2. Give a brief description of his life.
3. Describe training
4. Say who influenced the designer’s work.50-75 words.
Main Body

Discuss AT LEAST TWO DESIGNS.
Use worksheets if they help.
DESCRIBE – OPINION.
Justified personal opinions are the most important.
400-500 words

Discuss a SECOND DESIGNER
Use worksheets if they help.
DESCRIBE – OPINION.
You should be comparing and contrasting with main designer
50-100 words.

Conclusion
Say clearly why you like your chosen designer.50-75 words

Conclusion Say clearly why you like your chosen designer.50-75 words.
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Submit your first draft to your teacher for suggestions on how to develop your final essay