Glendowie College
12 Design and Visual Communication (Graphics)
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Year 13 (2025) students are required to attend Subject Confirmation on Thursday 23 January to finalise their timetable.
Subject Description
Course Content
Year 12 Design and Visual Communication will allow students to further develop their creative and critical thinking. It will enable them with the skills and understanding to back up their original thoughts in a practical and functional ways. Students will learn a variety of visual communication techniques, which will allow them to successfully develop a successful design outcome.
Students will be assessed through the following projects:
- Project 1 - Students are designing a Product with their own individual brief. They will be choosing a Design movement as their source of inspiration.
- Project 2 – Students are designing a Spatial structure with their own individual brief. Students can choose their own source of inspirations as their starting point but the site must be within Auckland CBD.
Objectives
- To further develop and demonstrate a range of drawing skills and digital design techniques to express and communicate ideas which reflect a sound knowledge of design.
- To interpret drawings and communicate information in appropriate graphic form, which displays a sound understanding of a variety of graphic media.
- 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.
Extension/Enrichment Opportunities
Students who show the aptitude and interest can take part in the Scholarship programme.
Subject Overview
Term 1
Product design brief - inspired from a chosen design movement.
A.S. 91340 - Students initiate their design process by researching an existing design movement or era. They use this influence to inspire their product design standard.
A.S. 91342 - Students design a Product. They carry out the design process from start to finish considering form, functional and structural resolution.
Term 2
A.S. 91342 - Students complete their Product project.
A.S. 91341- Later in the term students begin their Spatial design project. Students are given a location in Auckland CBD to propose an idea for their brief.
Term 3
A.S. 91341 - Students complete their Spatial design project.
Term 4
A.S. 91337 - Students chose their stronger project and re-visit it to make improvements before sending it away for the external marking.
Recommended Prior Learning
Student has achieved in a minimum 3 of the 4 assessment areas for Year 11 DVC. If the student did not take DVC at Year 11 then approval is needed from the Head of Department.
Subject and Associated Costs
Course Costs:
$35.00 Graphics pack.
Pathway
Assessment Information
Level 3 (Year 13) Graphics Guideline(s):A minimum of 12 credits. At least 6 credits must have been achieved at either Merit or Excellence standard. Students not meeting these requirements must gain approval of the Head of Faculty.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This subject is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 2.30 - Use visual communication techniques to generate design ideas
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 2.33 - Use the characteristics of a design movement or era to inform own design ideas
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 2.34 - Develop a spatial design through graphics practice
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 2.35 - Develop a product design through graphics practice
Disclaimer
It is important that you complete your option selection by the due date to enable you to have your preferred course of study. Course availability is dependent on numbers and staffing, and course entry will be confirmed at the beginning of the school year.
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