Level 3 Design & Visual Communication

Teacher in Charge:  Mrs Megan Eshuis
megan.eshuis@wdsg.school.nz

Course description:
Year 13 Design and Visual Communication (DVC) challenges students to explore and apply creative and critical thinking to solve authentic design problems through spatial or product design. Students investigate, develop, interrogate, and refine design ideas in response to a design brief. Students will consider user needs through essential and extensive research into environmental impacts, aesthetics, form, function and suitable materials to produce a successful design outcome. Students will model and exhibit their design using appropriate materials and digital applications. 

Course of study:

• Resolve a product or spatial through graphics practice.

• Initiate design ideas through exploration.

• Use visual communication techniques to exhibit your own design ideas to an audience.

In Year 13 Design and Visual Communication, students complete both internal and external NCEA achievement standards through an integrated design programme. Throughout the year, they investigate, develop and refine design ideas in response to design briefs. This work contributes to the internal assessments while also supporting the development of cohesive external portfolio of work.