Level 3 Design and Visual Communication (3DVC)
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr C. Thomas.
Design and Visual Communication (DVC) is about communicating the design of our three-dimensional world, through products we use and spaces we occupy.
Design thinking encompasses the ideation, exploration, progression, and communication of design ideas.
Within Design and Visual Communication, design consists of three-dimensional product design and spatial design.
Product design focuses on the development of tangible items that have a specific function and use within people's everyday lives.
Spatial design is about the designing of three-dimensional spaces in terms of how they are experienced, occupied, or used by people. This incorporates concepts from architecture and interior design.
Visual communication addresses how design ideas and outcomes are appropriately presented to the viewer. Design ideas and outcomes are expressed through freehand sketching, line drawings, computer CAD models and a range of rendering and representation techniques including tone and colour.
A laptop is essential for using SketchUp to do our 3D computer CAD modelling. An expectation of the course is that students will be gaining skills in the use of SketchUp to assist in the generation of design ideas and Layout to compose their portfolios. 2D CAD working drawings are generated for the external assessment. The Pro version of SketchUp is supplied to senior DVC students for this course use.
Preferred Prior Learning
Level 2 design and visual communication is recommended and would be an advantage or other subjects with a high level of visual communication or computer graphics content.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration
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Design and Visual Communication 3.31 - Develop a visual presentation that exhibits a design outcome to an audience
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Design and Visual Communication 3.32 - Resolve a spatial design through graphics practice
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Design and Visual Communication 3.34 - Produce working drawings to communicate production details for a complex design
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SCHL - Design and Visual Communication
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 22
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.