Year 10 Design & Visual Communication (Graphics) - Half Year

Design and Visual Communication (Graphics) is a design course that uses sketching, rendering with both colour pencils and design markers to creatively explore design ideas though an annotated design process. Students will learn technical drawing with both hand drawing and computer aided (CAD) with Fusion 360 and TinkerCad to formalise refined ideas across 2 major areas: 

Area 1: Product Design examples

• Lighting 

• Furniture (chair, coffee table, modular shelving etc.) 

• Sound

• Transport (smaller scale eg. bike)

• Cell phone (hand held electronics) 

• Whiteware (kitchen products)

Area 2: Architecture design examples

• Tiny houses

• Bird houses 

• Band rotunda (range of shelter options) 

• Eating Pods

• Interstellar recolonization pods 

• Green houses

Students will learn to communicate their creative ideas on paper through sketching and design analysis. Project selection will be influenced by student interest in the class. 

This course will give you a good understanding for future study in Year 11 Design & Visual Communication.