Level 1 Design & Visual Communication
11DVC Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Mr T. Mitchell.
Design and Visual Communication is about the interrelated strands of design thinking, visual communication, and design influences.
Design thinking encompasses the ideation, exploration, progression, and communication of design ideas into potential outcomes that serve a specific purpose, provide innovative possibilities.
Within Design and Visual Communication, design consists of product design and spatial design.
Product design focuses on the development of tangible items that have a specific function within people’s everyday lives.
Spatial design is about the designing of three-dimensional spaces in terms of how they are experienced, occupied, or used by people.
The aim is to stimulate self-confidence, self-esteem and a pride of achievement through enabling all students to achieve a high level of personal success in this subject.
Course Overview
Term 1
Students will develop product or spatial design ideas informed by the consideration of people. The consideration of people, encompasses connection to a place, that the context is
designed for, and keeping the possible users of the potential design outcome in mind.
Students will learn how to apply design principles and elements to their work. They will also explore the design process and how to use it in their design project.
Students will be able create physical models (such as hand built, 3D printed, laser cut), manual or digital rendered models (such as CAD packages), bubble diagrams, floor plans for spatial design, 2D and 3D sketches and drawings, section views, cross-sections, and elevations, rapid visualisation and/or drawing systems (isometric, oblique, planometric, orthographic, architectural, and perspective, etc).
Term 2
Students will use instrumental drawing techniques to communicate own product or spatial design outcome.
They will use CAD and 3D modelling software to present their final designs and creating orthographic (2D) and paraline (3D) drawings accurately, that visually communicate the construction or assembly features.
Term 3
Students will use representation techniques to visually communicate own product or spatial design outcome. CAD and 3D modelling software to present their final designs.
Students will learn refined techniques of how to make their drawings look real using colour tone and texture using hand-rendered presentation drawings, physical models (such as hand built, 3D printed, laser cut), rendered digital models (such as CAD packages), animations (such as flythroughs).
Term 4
Students will assemble their years work and present it in a portfolio for final marking.
Pathway
Level 2 Design & Visual Communication
Design, Architecture, Engineering, Graphic Art, Graphic Designer, Computer Graphics, Building Industry, Boat Building – Design and Construction, Landscape industry, All the Trades.
Career PathwaysBusiness Analyst, Software Developer, Statistician, Sound Technician, Aeronautical Engineer, Agricultural/Horticultural Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Technician, Chemical Engineer, Surveyor, Fashion Designer, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Technical Writer, Graphic Pre-press Worker, Visual Merchandiser, Game Developer, Photographer, Printer, Signmaker, User Experience Designer, Actor, Anaesthetist, Marine Biologist, Historian, Artist, Audiologist/Audiometrist, Joiner, Survey Technician, Aircraft Loader, Building Surveyor, Auctioneer, Biotechnologist, Property Manager, Building and Construction Labourer, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Urban/Regional Planner, Landscape Architect, Landscaper, Geospatial Specialist, Air Force Aviator, Air Force Officer, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, Product Assembler, Arborist, Army Soldier, Electronics Engineer, Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Electrician, Automotive Technician, Automotive Refinisher, Baker, Cafe Worker, Wall and Floor Tiler, Building Insulator, Beauty Therapist, Brick and Blocklayer, Fabrication Engineer, Building Contractor, Animator/Digital Artist, Mining Engineer, Advertising Specialist, Copywriter, Sales and Marketing Manager, Patternmaker, Architect, Architectural Technician, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Film and Video Editor, Glazier, Tailor/Dressmaker, Biomedical Engineer, Biomedical Technician, Metal Worker, Boat Builder, Naval Architect, Tattoo Artist, Print Finisher, Building and Construction Manager
Contributions and Equipment/StationeryYear Eleven DVC Stationery List
Qty OfficeMax Code Description
3 2803615 A3 Warwick 17C9U Drawing Pad Refill 110gsm
2 1022598 Staedtler Traditional Graphite 2H pencil
2 1022849 Staedtler Traditional Graphite HB pencil
2 1022563 Staedtler Traditional Graphite 2B pencil
1 2899604 30cm Clear Plastic Ruler
1 2802449 Eraser
1 1312650 Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils or 24pkt
1 1157957 26cm 450 Set Square
1 1158066 26cm 600 Set Square
1 2810948 Faber-Castell compass set
1 12822520 A3 Art Carry Bag (recommended)
1 2855844 Circle Guide
1 2852101 Metric Ellipse Template
1 2800373 Clear File A3 refillable display book
Optional Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm with 2H leads
Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm with HB leads
Mechanical Pencil 0.7mm with HB leads
Staedtler fibre tip pens pkt 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7mm