Dear Miss Marks,

We are contacting you because we have heard that your class are bright sparks.

We are so bored with the current trend in mobile phones that if we see another smooth, shiny cuboid we will poke our eyes out with pencils!

We are putting it to your class to design a new mobile phone.

Think outside of the box, think of other, less appreciated polyhedrons.

We need you to design a mobile phone for us.

Your brief follows….

Good luck, our eyes are depending on you!

Vodasparkdegrees

Design a phone

Your task

• Vodasparkdegrees (the famous phone mobile company) are looking to produce a new mobile phone

• The target market is teenagers• They are asking selected young people to

design a phone prototype that would be popular with teenagers.

Your Task

• Design a new phone• Make a net that can be made into a prototype

phone• You are limited to an A4 size net to keep

production costs down• All key features should be drawn onto the net

before assembly• Your teachers have also produced a net that

may give you some helpful ideas

• Big Buttons• Choice of colours – black or

black and grey• No MP3• No games capability• No Internet• Spaces for family photos• Calendar reminders for key

events like detentions• Choice of 44 naff ring tones

from the 20th century

Features of a good net

Top Tips:Sketch it first, with the measurementsAdd tabs to alternate sidesCheck measurement again before drawing to scaleColour in and score along the folds before cutting outCut carefully