VISUAL COMMUNICATION & DESIGN NAME: LAVERTON P-12 COLLEGE UNITS:VCE SUBJECT OVERVIEW UNIT DESCRIPTION Students take their drawing ability to a UNIT 1 SUBJECTS professional level through responding to design This unit focuses on using visual language to FROM YEAR briefs with a range of clients, constraints and communicate messages, ideas and concepts. 10 DOES THIS purposes. Students apply design thinking Students develop presentation drawings FOLLOW ON to generate design solutions for a range of to clearly communicate their final visual FROM? contexts, audience and purposes. Students communications. They examine the history of Visual Art explore environmental, industrial and design through an investigation of design styles. Media communication design fields. Visual UNIT 2 Communication Students use presentation drawing methods Design that incorporate the use of technical drawing skills to communicate information and ideas associated with the environmental or industrial design fields. They also investigate how typography and imagery are used in these fields as well as the communication design field. SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT WHAT KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS WILL I BUILD? ASSESSMENT COULD INCLUDE: NEED TO KNOW? • Technical drawing (manual and digital) • School assessed Folio Students may need to purchase additional • Analytical skills • School assessed presentation drawings materials for this subject however • Critical, creative and reflective thinking • Coursework Adobe strategies Suite will be • End of year exam provided by the school. • Effective use of a design process