Year 12 Art Design
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs K. Saunders.
Art Design enhances ākonga (students) perception skills: designers tend to be more observant, conscious people. This course is taught in a way to encourage ākonga to examine the world around them. In Year 12 Art Design ākonga develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness, as they manipulate and transform visual ideas to solve problems and explore abstract concepts.
This course facilitates the development of independent work habits – transferable skills that can be utilised in other curriculum areas and in a wide range of tertiary courses and careers, whilst studying a subject that inspires and excites. This course will develop skills such as:
- communication,
- critical and creative thinking,
- problem-solving,
- the ability to research and analyse,
- adaptability,
- independence, and
- innovation.
The course structure is designed to promote independent work habits and develop knowledge and skills chosen by our ākonga. This course is divided into one stand-alone unit & two interrelated units:
- Internal Achievement Standard / Stand-alone unit: What the type? Introduction to Typography Design - practical skills-based creating a series of type-based designs that visually communicate an ākonga-selected whakataukī.
- Internal + External Achievement Standards / two interrelated units: practical skills-based using contemporary print media design, brand identity and established practice with an ākonga (student) defined proposal that links to an overall theme: Making a Positive Social Change.
- The internal standard explores set tasks creating a series of promotional media: logo, magazine double-page spread layout & a large-scale poster design.
- The external standard expands on work generated for the internal to create a sequential body of work (2-panel folio board). This unit explores a sub-brief/task of their choosing. Sub-briefs explored in previous years have ranged from social media accounts, website design, clothing (artwork/type/design on clothing), business stationery, and packaging design.
Throughout this course, ākonga can participate in public group art exhibitions: virtual galleries and offsite gallery locations.
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Gallery Exhibition: 2nd Act - Historic Village, People's Gallery.Exhibition: 2nd Act - Historic Village, People's Gallery.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Students will need a BYOD device that can run Adobe Creative Cloud applications: Illustrator, Lightroom CC & Photoshop. Adobe Creative Cloud will be supplied for the duration of the course. Note a Chromebook cannot run these applications. iPads (with Apple pens) and DSLR cameras will be supplied to use in class.
Pathway
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
Visual Arts 2.2 - Use drawing methods to apply knowledge of conventions appropriate to design
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Visual Arts 2.3 - Develop ideas in a related series of drawings appropriate to established design practice
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Visual Arts 2.4 - Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within design
Pathway Tags
Animator/Digital Artist, Copywriter, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artist, Artistic Director, Beauty Therapist, Tattoo Artist, Entertainer, Film/Television Camera Operator, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Make-up Artist, Curator, Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Visual Merchandiser, Media Producer, Lighting Technician, Game Developer, Hairdresser/Barber, Photographer,
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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.