Bronze Arts Award
Product Design

During this six week online course you will be given the opportunity to use Fusion 360 CAD design software to design a lamp and shade, as well as an environment for it to be rendered in. After designing the lamp and the room elements you can then take them and using Adobe Spark develop promotional materials for your designs. This will end up with a Virtual extension showing your work from the course. The course will give you the opportunity to achieve your Bronze Arts award, however it is not essential that you work towards a Bronze Arts award during this course, as we would very much welcome you if you simply want to enjoy the creative sessions.

Participants will require access to either a PC or Mac computer/laptop as a Chrome Book will not be compatible with the software used during the course.

More information about the Arts Award qualification can be found HERE. *Please note that if you have already achieved a Bronze Arts Award, you will not be able to receive another one as they are not linked to subjects, however you are still more than welcome to participate in the course, providing you meet the admissions criteria.

Session dates and structure:

• Week 1: Sunday 15 October
• Week 2: Sunday 22 October
• Week 3: Sunday 29 October
• Week 4: Sunday 5 November
• Week 5: Sunday 12 November
• Week 6: Sunday 19 November

Week 1 – Intro, Ice breaker, setup, arts award explained. (Part A)

Student will have been sent a how to get set up pack, this will include how to use collaborate and set up fusion 360 account.

10.00 – 10.30: UCA Welcome talk/ Presentation 

10.30 – 11.45: 

• Presentation of what we are going to create on the course.
• Arts award explained, what you have to do and how to document your evidence.
• How we are going to use Instagram to document their evidence.

11.45 – 12.15: Lunch Break

12.15 – 12.45: 2nd Briefing and demo. Fusion 360 Puck design

12.45 – 13.30: Student follow Tutorial video, one to one Collaborate support available. Video tutorial will be hosted on YouTube

13.30 – 14.00: Debriefing, students show their work, Briefing for next session

Finish with reexplain the arts award and what is need for them to active it.

Week 2 – Lamp Design and Lamp Shade Design (Part A)

10.00 – 10.30: Briefing and Demo. Demo of how to design lamp over Collaborate

10.30 – 11.30: Student follow Tutorial video, one to one Collaborate support available. Video tutorial will be hosted on YouTube

11.30 – 11.45: Debriefing and students show their work

11.45 – 12.15: Lunch Break

12.15 – 12.45: 2nd Briefing and demo. Demo of how to design lamp shade over Collaborate 

12.45 – 13.30: Student follow Tutorial video, one to one Collaborate support available. Video tutorial will be hosted on YouTube

13.30 – 14.00: Debriefing, students show their work, Briefing for next session

Finish with reminding them about what they need to put on their Instagram’s for thein.

Week 3 – Your arts inspiration (Part B & C)

10.00 – 10.30: Briefing on days activity

10.30 – 11.45: Pixar Movie Review

11.45 – 12.15: Lunch Break

12.15 – 12.45: Arts inspiration. Brief the students on how to document their arts inspiration

12.45 – 13.30: Students to complete arts inspiration activity

13.30 – 14.00: Debriefing, students show their work, Briefing for next session

Finish with reminding them about what they need to put on their Instagram’s for thein.

Week 4 – Environment design (Part A) 

10.00 – 10.30:Briefing and Demo. Demo of how to build desk, walls, floors, and photo frames over Collaborate

10.30 – 11.30: Student follow Tutorial video, one to one Collaborate support available. Video tutorial will be hosted on YouTube

11.30 – 11.45: Debriefing and students show their work

11.45 – 12.15: Lunch Break

12.15 – 12.45: 2nd Briefing and demo. Demo of how to add image into frames and apply textures for rending over Collaborate

12.45 – 13.30: Student follow Tutorial video, one to one Collaborate support available. Video tutorial will be hosted on YouTube

13.30 – 14.00: Debriefing, students show their work, Briefing for next session

Finish with reminding them about what they need to put on their Instagram’s for thein.

Week 5 – Promotional materials and show prep (Part A)

10.00 – 10.30: Briefing and Demo. Demo of how to export renders from fusion 360 and import them into Adobe Spark to create promotional materials over Collaborate.

10.30 – 11.30: Student follow Tutorial video, one to one Collaborate support available. Video tutorial will be hosted on YouTube

11.30 – 11.45: Debriefing and students show their work

11.45 – 12.15: Lunch Break

12.15 – 12.45: 2nd Briefing and demo. Demo of how to gather materials for the exhibition and how to send them to Rob for exhibition preparation over Collaborate

12.45 – 13.30: Students will have time to gather materials and send them over.

13.30 – 14.00: Debriefing, students show their work, Briefing for next session

Finish with reminding them about what they need to put on their Instagram.

Week 6 – Shear and show (Part D)

10.00 – 10.30: Briefing and Demo. Demo of how to complete the shear task over Collaborate.  This will either be how to change materials and render or how to change lampshade shape. (depending on student skill level)

10.30 – 11.30: Students to complete the shear task and document it.

11.30 – 11.45: Debriefing and students show their work

11.45 – 12.15: Lunch Break

12.15 – 13.00: Student have mini tutorial, so they know what is missing from there arts award evidence

13.00 – 14.00: Student to go online and visit VR exhibition of their work

Finish with reminding them about what they need to put on their Instagram.

Applications for Arts Award programmes are now closed.