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Design and Visual Communication (Graphics)

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Design and Visual Communication is where students can develop their creativity, learn about the practice of designing (initiation and developing ideas), make qualitative judgements (informed decisions on aesthetic and functional aspects of design) and develop a range of drawing (visual communication) skills.

Students learn best by doing. Design and Visual Communication therefore adopts an activity-based, project-driven approach. This takes place within a design practice where they create, develop and present their own ideas.

This design practice is broadly described and illustrated as:
Developing design ideas, which involve initiating, exploring and refining design ideas, informed by research, leading to the communication of an outcome in response to a brief.

Skills
The development of:

  • an ability to design
  • visual communication – sketching, drawing, modelling, illustration & presentation techniques
  • 2 dimensional computer drawing and 3 dimensional computer modelling
  • project portfolio design work in architecture and product design

Typical outcomes

Design projects based around:

  • architecture; such as a pavilion design for a public space or designing a relocatable micro-environment that could be used as a holiday home or emergency shelter in a natural disaster
  • Product design; such as a modernist lamp or furniture design reflecting a design period. Adaption or development of an existing everyday product or item of use such as sporting equipment

Links
http://www.designed.net.nz/
http://www.idsketching.com/
http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/index.html



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