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BTEC Design and Technology enterprise research trip

Middle Sixth Form BTEC Design and Technology pupils visited London last week to research the marketing and selling of design products.

The group first visited Covent Garden where they looked at designs on offer in the market and spoke to some of the artists about the process of designing and marketing their work.  

The afternoon was spent at the Design Museum where pupils took part in a workshop led by one of the museum's resident designers, which involved completing product analysis exercises on a range of lighting products from the museum's collection.  The group then visited the 'Designer, Maker, User' gallery where pupils studied twentieth and twenty-first century designs through the eye of the designer, manufacturer and user.

Later in the day pupils had the chance to visit the 'California:  Designing Freedom' exhibition - an exciting display which aims to answer the question of how California came to have such a powerful influence on contemporary design and how 'Designed in California' became such a global phenomenon.