Year 10 Design & Visual Communication

Teacher in Charge:  Mr Alistair Hutcheson
ahutcheson@wdsg.school.nz

Course description:
Students of DVC will learn how to convey an idea through many visual mediums and transform their design thinking. Students will learn the design process through the introduction of modelling and sketching skills, and develop innovative solutions that improve, transform or challenge people’s experience of the world. 

Focus areas of study:

• Develop freehand sketching and rendering techniques to communicate design ideas and visual literacy 

• Product design

• Spatial design

• Design by inspiration 

• Project-based learning collaborations across all Technology learning areas.