DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
EXAMINATION [2025/2026]
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF DESIGN THINKING, ENGINEERING
PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
ENGINEERING FOUNDATION, AND PRACTICAL DESIGN COMPETENCY
EVALUATION
SPRING SEMESTER EXAM 2026
What is the Arts and Crafts Movement?
Preferred traditional skills and beautiful materials to machine-made products.
Influences of Arts & Crafts movement
A reaction to the loss of traditional skills and overuse of ornamentation that was perceived to
have resulted from the Industrial Revolution, as personified by the Great Exhibition of 1851
Inspirations of Arts & Crafts movement
Medieval crafts guilds, simplicity, natural forms and the beauty of timber
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, Features of Arts & Crafts movement
- Honest, handmade, traditional methods such as pegged mortise and tenon joints
- Beauty of materials such as grain and figure of oak clearly displayed
- Use of patterned, natural forms on tiles, wallpaper and textiles
What period was the Art Deco movement?
1925-1939
What was the main influences and inspirations for the Art Deco movement?
- The end of WW1, aspirational consumers, popularity of travel and growth of mass production.
- The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
- The Paris Exhibition of 1925.
- A range of international styles such as Egyptian temples, Aztec motifs and African carvings.
- Geometrically pure forms.
What were the key features of Art Deco?
- Ziggurat, stepped decorations and building styles such as New York skyscrapers.
- Sunburst motifs, often found as decorations and radio grille designs.
- Stylised, geometric form of products, from jewellery to furniture, contrasting with Art
Nouveau.
- Bold colours as well as black and chrome.
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EXAMINATION [2025/2026]
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF DESIGN THINKING, ENGINEERING
PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
ENGINEERING FOUNDATION, AND PRACTICAL DESIGN COMPETENCY
EVALUATION
SPRING SEMESTER EXAM 2026
What is the Arts and Crafts Movement?
Preferred traditional skills and beautiful materials to machine-made products.
Influences of Arts & Crafts movement
A reaction to the loss of traditional skills and overuse of ornamentation that was perceived to
have resulted from the Industrial Revolution, as personified by the Great Exhibition of 1851
Inspirations of Arts & Crafts movement
Medieval crafts guilds, simplicity, natural forms and the beauty of timber
1|Page
, Features of Arts & Crafts movement
- Honest, handmade, traditional methods such as pegged mortise and tenon joints
- Beauty of materials such as grain and figure of oak clearly displayed
- Use of patterned, natural forms on tiles, wallpaper and textiles
What period was the Art Deco movement?
1925-1939
What was the main influences and inspirations for the Art Deco movement?
- The end of WW1, aspirational consumers, popularity of travel and growth of mass production.
- The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
- The Paris Exhibition of 1925.
- A range of international styles such as Egyptian temples, Aztec motifs and African carvings.
- Geometrically pure forms.
What were the key features of Art Deco?
- Ziggurat, stepped decorations and building styles such as New York skyscrapers.
- Sunburst motifs, often found as decorations and radio grille designs.
- Stylised, geometric form of products, from jewellery to furniture, contrasting with Art
Nouveau.
- Bold colours as well as black and chrome.
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