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Course Overview
Course Overview
This course provides students with opportunities to exploit the links between art and design by designing and making images and objects in which aesthetic qualities and symbolic meanings are as important as utilitarian function. It encourages students to explore the practices of graphic, wearable, product, and interior/exterior designers in contemporary societies and promotes imaginative and innovative approaches to design within the context of the Australian environment and culture.
Through the critical and historical study of designed images and objects students are able to analyse and make informed judgements about the designed works that surround them – works which reflect and construct the image they have of themselves, others and their world.
The course is designed to enable students to gain an increasing accomplishment and independence in their representation of ideas in different fields of design and to understand and value how graphic design, wearable design, product design, and interior/exterior design, invite different interpretations and explanations. Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills through the making of works in design that lead to and demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment. They also develop knowledge, understanding and skills that lead to increasingly accomplished critical and historical investigations of design.
Course Structure
Course Structure
Visual Design is a non ATAR course. The course provides students with opportunities to experiment and explore the links between art and design by designing and making images and objects which have aesthetic qualities and symbolic meanings. It encourages students to explore the practices of graphic, wearable, product and interior/exterior designers in contemporary societies and promotes imaginative and innovative approaches to design within the context of the Australian environment and culture.
The course encourages students to explore and investigate their natural and made world and to use the perceptions gained through these experiences as a basis for developing and giving form to their ideas in the different fields of graphic design, wearable design, product design and interior/exterior design. It enables students to pursue their interests in the products, materials, techniques and technologies that have a personal and social relevance and provides course modules that challenge and extend their intellectual and technical skills. These modules also provide for design projects that promote collaboration among students.
Exclusions: Projects developed for assessment in one subject are not to be used either in full or in part for assessment in any other subject.
Students are required to keep a diary throughout this course.
Course Structure
Course Structure
Modules may be selected in any of the four broad fields of:
Graphic Design
Wearable Design
Product Design
Interior/Exterior Design.
The additional module, Individual/Collaborative Project, extends students’ learning experiences and may reflect students’ increasing interests and desire to specialise in one or more of these fields or explore the connections further between the fields. The Occupational Health and Safety Module is mandatory in any course.
Coursework
The course is divided in two parts:
Designing and Making 70%
Critical and Historical studies 30%.
Suitable Candidates
Students who enjoy being creative and having fun and who are interested in experimenting and challenging themselves.
Equipment Required
Visual Art Process Diary
Mandatory Course Fees? Yes - $30
Other Course Costs
Students may incur further cost based on individual projects developed.
Coordinating Faculty
TAS
Head Teacher
Mr. L Warwick
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