12 Visual Arts - Design

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

The Stage 2 Visual Art Design course requires to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in social, historical and cultural context, Students can explore within any of the design categories of visual communications- graphic, product design, illustration and environmental design; interior and exterior architecture and or fashion design. Students complete practical skills in a wide range of media including digital technologies with evaluation and reflection on practice. Students must also critically analyse design work using arts terminology and methods.

Topics may include

Visual study:

• students are required to study an area of design of their choice
• productive and thorough use of research skills is required
• the application of practical and technical skills and sensitive use of media, materials and technologies should be evident
• students critically analyse the work of other designers and create reproductions of these pieces, using similar processes

Folio

• a process of well-planned concepts, developments and resolution of imaginative and personally relevant visual ideas, answering the student’s own ‘design brief’
• students are required to explore a variety of media including manual and digital applications

Practical:

• students will present two practical pieces. Each practical will be a resolution of each of the folios. These can be 2 or 3 dimensional pieces
• students prepare a written design practitioner’s statement for each piece (up to 500 words for each practical).