12DVC

12 Design and Visual Communication (Graphics)

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

Career Pathways

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.

Total Credits Available: 18
Internal Assessed Credits: 15
External Assessed Credits: 3
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91337 v3
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 2.30 - Use visual communication techniques to generate design ideas


Level: 2
Internal or External: External
Credits: 3
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91340 v4
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 2.33 - Use the characteristics of a design movement or era to inform own design ideas


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 3
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91341 v4
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 2.34 - Develop a spatial design through graphics practice


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 6
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91342 v4
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 2.35 - Develop a product design through graphics practice


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 6
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 18
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

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.