This elective requires payment of an additional fee to cover materials and consumables (as above).

What is this Subject?

Visual Communication Design (VCD) is the study of design and visual language. 

Students develop practices and processes in design including digital and manual drawing, model-making, analysing and presenting design ideas. 

VCD covers the topics of graphic design, architecture, product design, fashion design, environmental design, creative problem solving and more.

What will you be doing in this subject?

• Following a design process and brief to create design ideas

• Evaluating design ideas through drawing, presenting and prototyping

• Studying visual language and the factors that influence design

• Creating an understanding of ‘good design’ and applying this knowledge to their own ideas

This is beneficial if you want to be a...

Architect, interior architect/designer, landscape architect/ designer, graphic designer, industrial designer, game developer/designer, illustrator, urban planner

This is beneficial if you want to study...

Architecture, Interior Architecture, Communication Design, Graphic Design, Illustration

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