11DVC

11 Design and Visual Communications (Graphics)

Subject Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs R. Lewis.

Year 11 Design and Visual Communication will allow students to develop their creative thinking and give them the skills and understanding to back up their original thoughts in a practical and functional way. Students will learn a variety of visual communication skills which will allow them to successfully develop a workable outcome. 

Objectives

  • To develop and demonstrate a range of drawing skills and digital design techniques to express and communicate ideas which reflect a sound working knowledge of graphics media, equipment, software and materials.
  • To interpret drawings and communicate information in appropriate graphic form, which displays a sound understanding of design.
  • To understand and apply the processes and elements of design in the solving of design problems.
  • To develop, through activities in design, an appreciation and aesthetic and functional awareness of a design's impact on people and the environment.

Content

Each area is explored graphically, either by hand or digitally, solving of a design problem put to the students.

There will be a homework expectation of 2 hours per week (minimum).

Assessment and Learning Area

Description

Initiation - Divergent Thinking

Identify their own unique starting point for their project and with this initiate and inform their own design ideas.

Communication - Skills

Students will produce freehand/digital sketches, digital models and physical models which communicate their own design ideas.

Use digital and hand rendering techniques to communicate the form of their own design ideas.

Promote design work to a real audience using visual communication techniques. 

Digital Communication - Application of Digital Skills

Students will learn how to create either a digital multi-view orthographic drawing or digital presentation drawing of their final design concept.

The Process of Design - Furniture Design

Demonstrate development of own design ideas communicated through graphics practice.


Subject Overview

Term 1
Students carry out a visual case study of an architectural space. Through learning a variety of drawing techniques and digital modelling skills. They finish the term by creating a presentation board to display their term's work.

Term 2
Students focus on building their creative skills through the use of the form exploration and the ideation process. They will work with a variety of media to design a spatial outcome for an existing brand.

Term 3
Students begin their furniture design project. This will take them two terms to complete. They have a lot of creative freedom and can choose what type of furniture and what their chosen influence will be to initiate their design project.

Term 4
Students will conclude their furniture design project. This term they will look at making the product functionally, structurally and ergonomically sound. They will use a digital design program of their choosing (Sketch up, fusion 360, Blender...) to create their final outcome. Once completed students will build a miniature model of their designed furniture item.

Recommended Prior Learning

Having taken 10DVC is beneficial but not essential for students. 

Subject and Associated Costs

Course Costs:
$20.00 Materials fee for all students.
$35.00 Graphics Pack only for students who did not take DVC in Year 10 or have lost their folder from last year.

Pathway

Career Pathways

Assessment Information

Year 12 Design and Visual Communication (Graphics) Guideline(s):
A successful, dedicated and focused approach to their Year 11 Technology course and the approval of the Head of Faculty.

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