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Planet Lighting
Planet Lighting is a successful Australian company with a long history. In the Design and Technology HSC course you learn about historical influences on designing and producing. This tutorial offers you the opportunity to identify and acknowledge historical and cultural influences on design and technological development.
Outcomes
This material addresses aspects of the following syllabus outcomes:
H2.1 The student explains the influence of trends in society on design and production.
H3.1 The student analyses the factors that influence innovation and the success of innovation.
Source: Board of Studies NSW, Stage 6 Design and Technology Syllabus, Preliminary and HSC Courses (1999)
Activity
- Draw a timeline to summarise the developments
in Planet Lighting's history
.
Consider how important decisions have tied in with the success of the company.
- Identify the
historical influences from Planet Lighting's own history which
contribute to their success today.
- Planet Lighting has
diversified and are now involved in custom
lighting . Select the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition
Centre to view one of these designs. Then select Plans
and construction to view a range of documentation. This section
highlights some key design issues, for example, finding a superior
solution to a problem and exploring new shapes and technology.
- In 1987 a glass-blowing
division, Lucinda
Glass , was established. It is the only commercial-scale glass-blower
in Australasia. Read about the glass blowing process.
Current trends
The operation of Planet Lighting reflects a number of the current trends in design, for example:
- Green design: special manufacturing and waste controls; decentralised rural location.
- Superior solutions: the reduction of complex one-off craft techniques to repeatable, affordable, documentable and reliable series of steps.
- Application of new technology: seamless state of the art CAD/CAM machining.
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