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• An architect designs buildings and structures and produces technical drawings, floor plans, models, and digital designs.
• A set designer designs sets and environments for theatre, film, television, and performances.
• A pattern designer creates repeated designs for textiles, wallpaper, packaging, and other surfaces.
• A fine artist creates artwork mainly for aesthetic or expressive purposes, such as paintings, drawings, and installations.
• A sculptor creates three-dimensional artworks using materials such as clay, metal, wood, and found objects.
• A graphic designer combines text and images to communicate messages through work such as posters, logos, and adverts.
• An illustrator creates images to accompany text or communicate ideas through work such as book illustrations and editorial illustrations.
• A design brief is a clear outline of what needs to be designed, who it is for, and its purpose.
• A specification is a detailed list of requirements and success criteria that the final outcome must meet.
• The creative industry is growing 1.5 times faster than other industries and contributes roughly £108 billion to the UK economy each year.
• The formal elements of art include line, shape, form, tone, colour, texture, pattern, and space, and artists use these deliberately to communicate ideas.
• Different creative professionals use different styles, materials, and techniques depending on their chosen specialism.
• Charles McGee's work uses bold compositions, strong shapes, and strong lines.
• Hyemi Jeong's work uses contemporary illustration and character-based imagery.
• Axel Scheffler is known for an illustrative style often used in children's books.
• Howard Hodgkin's work uses expressive colour and brushwork.
• Zaha Hadid was an architect known for futuristic, flowing, and dynamic building designs.

• Identify whether a piece of work was created by an architect, set designer, pattern designer, fine artist, sculptor, graphic designer, or illustrator.
• Explain in simple terms what each specified role in the creative industry involves.
• Extract key information from a design brief, including the client, purpose, audience, and constraints.
• Create or follow a specification containing clear success criteria.
• Check and refine work so that it clearly links to the design brief and meets the specification.
• Describe how Charles McGee, Hyemi Jeong, Axel Scheffler, Howard Hodgkin, and Zaha Hadid use formal elements and techniques in their work.
• Adapt ideas from creative professionals, such as their use of colour, line, pattern, and form, in original designs.
• Plan, experiment with, and refine ideas in response to a design brief.
• Produce a skilled final piece that shows clear links to the design brief, specification, and artist research.
• Use mark making to create different textures, tones, and expressive effects.
• Construct a stable, well-made three-dimensional sculpture that demonstrates an understanding of form.
• Use perspective drawing, such as one-point perspective, to represent depth and space accurately.
• Apply the formal elements of art thoughtfully in original work.