Visual Design
Visual Design is an elective course that can be studied for 100 or 200 hours in Year 9 and/or after the completion of the Visual Arts 100-hour mandatory course.
Course Description
Visual Design provides opportunities for students to enjoy making and studying visual design artworks and to become informed about and understand and write about their contemporary world. It enables students to represent their ideas and interests about the world in visual design artworks and provides insights into new technologies, different cultures, and the changing nature of visual design in the 21st century. Students are provided with opportunities to make and study visual design artworks in greater depth and breadth than through the Visual Arts elective course.
What will students learn about?
Students learn about the pleasure and enjoyment of making different kinds of visual design artworks in print, object and space-time forms. They learn to represent their ideas and interests with reference to contemporary trends and how web designers, architects, commercial and industrial designers, space, light and sound designers, graphic designers and fashion, accessory and textile designers make visual design artworks.
Students learn about how visual design is shaped by different beliefs, values and meanings by exploring visual designers and visual design artworks from different times and places, and relationships in the art world between the artist/designer – artwork – world – audience. They also explore how their own lives and experiences can influence their making and critical and historical studies.
What will students learn to do?
Students learn to make visual design artworks using a range of materials and techniques in print, object and space-time forms, including ICT, to build a folio of work over time. They learn to develop their research skills, approaches to experimentation and how to make informed personal choices and judgements. They learn to record procedures and activities about their making practice in their Visual Design journal.
They learn to investigate and respond to a wide range of visual designers and visual design artworks in making, critical and historical studies. They also learn to interpret and explain the function of and relationships in the art world between the artist/designer – artwork – world – audience to make and study visual design artworks. This may include:
Topics may include:
- Illustration
- Lettering
- Poster design
Theatrical applications of design
- Video and animation
Course Requirements
Students are required to produce a folio of work and keep a Visual Design journal.
School Certificate
Satisfactory completion of 100 or 200 hours of study in Visual Design during Stage 5 (Years 9 and 10) will be recorded with a grade on the student’s School Certificate Record of Achievement Part A.
*Additional costs and materials incurred for this elective.