Promotional Football Gift

Last term, my Year 6 & 7 Design and Technology- Graphic Design students made a promotional football gift.

The football gift was based on a real life product that Coca-Cola were using as part of the Brazil World Cup advertising campaign. The product is essentially a football net (icosahedral) with a few missing patches. A balloon is then inserted and inflated, creating quite a robust, usable product.

As part of this project, Year 6 & 7 researched theory based topics such as packaging nets, computer aided design and the importance of detailed planning. They also investigated a company that they would like to work for and suggested how the company could use the promotional football.

Pupils also compared the differences between cutting materials by hand and by using a laser cutting machine, before making the football and decorating it with their chosen logo.