Whangarei Girls’ High School Whangarei Girls’ High School

Level 3 Art Design*

3DES
Course Description

Design is the perfect subject for all creatives! Digital designers, painters and illustrators can use their individual skills to succeed in this subject. Students will be required to maintain a visual/digital diary which documents their generation of ideas, design process, application of artist models, image making and development of ideas. Students will select a topic of their own choice and, using a selection of design briefs, create a body of design work which will be presented on 3 x A1 folio boards for external assessment.

Learning Opportunities

In this course you will need to:

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  • Creativity - You will be challenged to extend your ideas, draw inspiration from existing designers, test and experiment with a wide range of media and techniques.
  • You will select your own ‘Social Issue’ or ‘Business’ to develop an advertising campaign that either creates awareness or for promotion.
  • Decision Making - You will apply the design process to make decisions about successful design solutions. By identifying a problem you will solve it using this process.
  • Use illustration, photography and typographic design solutions to develop imagery for use in own inquiry.

  • Digital Literacy - Understand and apply Adobe Design Suite - Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator. Create and manipulate images and text.
  • Logo Design, Corporate Branding (Business card, letterhead, stickers, tee-shirt) and Own Choice: Publication, App, Website, Spatial Design, 3-D Promotional Material.
  • Time Management - Use the allocated time and set deadlines to manage your work output and receive quality feed-forward on your developing inquiry.
  • Explore successful design solutions by looking at advertising and the media today along with contemporary designers from NZ and beyond.



Year Levels/Departments:

Art, Seniors


Assessment Information

1 x optional achievement standard is available for some students, by negotiation with the classroom teacher.



			
					
					Resources Required
										
All resources are supplied for use in class. It is encouraged, not compulsory that students have a device that supports Adobe Creative Suite