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You have recently been hired to join the ThreadBanger team. Your first project is to design and create a simple furnishing item such as a cushion to enhance an area of your house. The ThreadBanger boss has asked that you look at an area in your home that is a little plain, drap or needs jazzing up and create a simple piece of soft furnishing to be made from textile materials and making use of two or more fabric decoration techniques. You have been allocated a budget of $30 so you may consider using recycled materials to keep the cost to a minimum. ======

= Design Brief =

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To design, produce and evaluate a **simple furnishing iteam** for an area of your home, the item is to be made from **textial materials** and make use of at least **two or more fabric decoration techniques.**======

= Key Words = = Limitations = For this project you have been given a budget of $30. $5 of that budget has been taken out which supplies you with 1 meter of white cotton fabric which is to be used somewhere on our soft furnishing item .The cotton can be tie dyed, printed or decorated .You can buy extra material to decorate your soft furnishing item. You will have to purchase your own stuffing for your pillow. The soft furnishing item is to be completed before the last day of term.
 * Design:** to plan, draw or conceive an idea in the mind.
 * Produce:** to bring into existence. In this project it means to make.
 * Evaluate:** to judge or determine the significance,worth,or quality of;assess:to evaluate the results of an experiment.
 * Simple furnishing iteam:**A piece of equipment necessary or useful for comfort or convenience.
 * Textial** **material:**Textial Material is used to make textial items look better.
 * Decoration techniques:**Is different skill used to make your soft furnishing item more aestetically pleasing.
 * 1) **Cost-** Cost can be a limatation because you can not over the limit of $30.
 * 2) **Time-**Time is a big factor because you only have a limmited amout of time to finnish.
 * 3) **Resources-**Can be diificult because this may mean you can not go to the shops and buy other materials.
 * 4) **Technical difficulties-**This is an extremly big factor especcialy effecting me becasue this can determaine your time on the computer which can lead into marks being lost.

= Criteria for success = At the begginning of any project you must set a criteria to make sure your product/project is successful.By creating a criteria this will alow to see if your design matches your design sketch.Also by seeing if it satisfies your brief.
 * 1) Needs to be completed by the deadline
 * 2) Must cost less than $30
 * 3) Has to interpret what i like and what is trendy.
 * 4) Has to be comfortable
 * 5) Has to be creative
 * 6) Needs to use two or more design techniques
 * 7) Suit my beedroom

= ** Factors Affecting Design ** = > === ===
 * ==== **Function-** The k ind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role in this case would be a pillow which would mean that it would of had to be conftable for the buyer.Also that the pillow fufills its purpose.Relevence 3/5  ====
 * ==== **Aesthetics-** A  philosophical theory or idea of what is aestheticaly valid at a given time and place:the cleanlines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that be speak the machine-age aesthetic.In this way a pillow has to be attractive but in the same way it has to be creative and has to work with your idea of  design.Relevence 5/5 ====
 * ==== **Human form-**A item that is suitable and is made propely to be used for humans usage.The purpose of the pillow being suitable for human form is so that it is inproportion to human form.The human form does have gret relavence in my design it is something that i would have to whach out for whilst making my pillow.Relevence 4/5 ====
 * ==== **Scale-**Something that is to scale means that it interpriets its real size.Scale plays quiet a big role in the design process because it has to be to scale when making the pillow and brainstorming ideas.Relevence 4/5 ====
 * ====** Ergonomics- **Design to minimise physical effort and disconfort,hence maximise efficiency .Which ties in with all the mechanics and principles of creating the pillow through the design process.Relevance 4/5‍‍====
 * ==== **Ethical-**Being in accordance with the rules or standardes for right conduct or practice,especiallystandardes of a prefession.In this situation ethics would be important if i was putting something rude or offensive such as a swear word or using inapropreate pictures which can be offensive to people.However this is not really relevent because i am not using anything offensive on my pillow .Releveance 3/5 ‍ ‍ ====
 * ==== **Environmental-**The aggnegate of souroundings things,conditions or influences.The souroudings in which the item is kept for example it has to suit your suroundings for where your pillow is to be used for esample a beedroom,bathroom,loungeroom etc. .Relevance 5/5 ====
 * ==== **Legislation-**The act of making or enacting law.In the case of making a pillow there are certain laws that you have to follow which for example could be a coppy right law.which means that you can not photocopy images that are illegal to copy and use as your own image .Relevance5/5 ====
 * ==== **Cost-**The price paid to aquire,produce,accomplishor maintain anything.To make our pillow you have to stay inside a certain price range which is $30.Relevance 5/5 ====
 * ==== **Socio-cultural-** Relating to the social and cultral practices,beliefs and tradititions within a particular society.This is relevent beacuse it teachers practices and traditions of creating different stiches in creating a pillow.Relevence2/5 ====
 * ==== **Resources availability-**The supply and access of a resource and its avalibility.You need to be abel to find the right material to match your design To make it look and feel aspheticly pleasing .Relevance 5/5 ====
 * ====** Physical and material properties- **considering the physical ( of or pertaining to the body) or material( the substance or substances of which any thing is made or composed) properties during the making of the pillow. This is a relevant factor as it test your pillow into maintaining it shape through ware and tear.Relevance 5/5 ====
 * ====** Safety-T ** he state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger,or loss; in this case it means how safe you are whilst creating your pillow,for example when you are on the sewing machine you want to be safe so that no unfortunat accidents happen,Saftey is mainly inforced for our wellbeing and protection whilst in the text tile room.Relevance 5/5====