gcse graphics exam 2015

What could you explore for the Exam?

Illustration

Typography

Advertising

Packaging

EXAM = 40%

AO1  Develop: studying work by other artists or designers

AO2  Refine: doing experiments to find out what works best for your ideas

AO3  Recording: making sketchbook drawings, notes, photographs and presentations

AO4  Present: offering a final outcome

How will my work be marked?

It is important that you begin working on the EXAM Paper straight away.

START TODAY!

Exam dates….

Thursday 30th April and Friday 1st May

Where to begin?

To begin you will need to choose one of the following starting points….

1.Waste Less Food2.Fantastic and Strange3.The Human Condition4.Spiral Sweets5.Site-Specific Murals

There are 2 other titles in your Exam paper (we recommend however you choose one the 5 above)

Contextual references

The Artists and Designers on the next few slides are suggestions to help you think about possible ideas. You may already have ideas of your own.

Keep an open mind at this point...

There is also Beaumont Pinterest Albums of Artists and Designers to support you with your project

Waste Less Food

Sam Taylor Wood

Fantastic and Strange

John Tenniel

John Tenniel ‘Jabberwocky’

Illustration

Dave McKean

Dave McKean

The Mr Fox Poem from

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Karolien Vanderstappen

Gary Fernandez

Gary Fernandez

Vladimir Gvozdariki

Keun-chul Jang

Sarah Fanelli

StephanSagmeister

Saul Steinburg

Double Exposure Photography

Eleanor Taylor

The Human Condition

Banksy

Spirals

Terry Frost

Op Art and Bridget Reilly

Sweet Packaging

Burton Morris

Site-Specific Muralsmural

ˈmjʊər(ə)l/noun

noun: mural; plural noun: murals1.

a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.

"huge murals depicting Norse legends"

Michael Craig Martin – Art Wall

Diego Rivera's Murales, National

Palace, Mexico City. He painted these so

the people who couldn't read could

still know their Mexican history

Banksy

Graphics – Work This Week1. Complete a broad ‘Spider Diagram’ of

Ideas for at least 4 of the questions.2. Complete a ‘narrowed down’ version,

based on the question that you have chosen.

3. Complete a VISUAL MOODBOARD of images from pinterest based on the theme

that you have chosen.

DEAD LINE: Next Wednesday 4th March