Year 11 Design and Visual Communication
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr S. Blades.
Design and Visual Communication involves design thinking, visual communication, and design heritage. It covers ideation, development, and communication of purposeful design ideas. This includes product and spatial design.
Product design creates functional items for daily life. Spatial design involves shaping three-dimensional spaces for human use, drawing from architecture, interior design, and more.
Visual communication ensures the effective presentation of design concepts. Design heritage encompasses design history, culture, and awareness, considering ethical and cultural aspects.
Designers adapt ideas to people's needs while being mindful of impacts. Learning Design and Visual Communication develops skills to express ideas, encouraging experimentation and improvement for meaningful and future-oriented design. This cultivates confidence, resilience, and ethical responsibility in design.
While redesigning the luge carts we had to test run the track and skyline in the process.
Embedding streamlining era into a design brief.
Design the City experiment
Ideation
Spatial design Concepts
Creating a final design
Development of an idea expressed with pen and ink
Rendered drawing standard exemplar
Presentation unit
Pathway
Assessment Information
Please note:It is anticipated that three of the four Achievement Standards will be assessed in 2024, to make a combined total of 15 Level One credits.
This will consist of the two internally assessed standards and one of the Externally assessed standards.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 1.1 - Generate product or spatial design ideas using visual communication techniques in response to design influences
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Design and Visual Communication 1.2 - Use representation techniques to visually communicate own product or spatial design outcome
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Design and Visual Communication 1.3 - Develop product or spatial design ideas informed by the consideration of people
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Design and Visual Communication 1.4 - Use instrumental drawing techniques to communicate own product or spatial design outcome
Pathway Tags
Animator/Digital Artist, Mining Engineer, Copywriter, Sales and Marketing Manager, Patternmaker, Architectural Technician, Artist, Film and Video Editor, Barrister, Tailor/Dressmaker, Cutter, Fashion Designer, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Communications Professional, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Industrial Designer, Technical Writer, Editor, Solicitor, Make-up Artist, Visual Merchandiser, Lighting Technician, Hairdresser/Barber, Signmaker, Marketing Specialist, Geospatial Specialist, Garment Technician,
Disclaimer
Note that picking a course doesn't guarantee entry.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the year level dean or the Future Pathways team for support and guidance.