Level 1 Design & Visual Communication

Each student will be offered the opportunity to gain up to 15 credits in Level 1 Design and Visual Communication.

Having already tested the new standards here at Sacred Heart, Design and Visual Communication is a course designed to challenge your thinking and engage with decision-making that is connected to people, places, cultures, and design knowledge in developing design outcomes. You will be exposed to both spatial and product design all while developing visual communication skills.

Students will:

● learn how to generate ideas and design innovative outcomes 

● experiment with ideas that explore possibilities, which can lead to the generation of more interesting ideas 

● understand that all ideas have value by engaging in critique and decision-making processes 

● understand how to use appropriate visual communication techniques to generate and explore ideas beyond first thoughts 

● be encouraged to use both divergent and convergent thinking to achieve successful outcomes 

● engage with people, places, and cultures to develop design ideas and outcomes

● develop skills and apply design knowledge to context

● know about the visual communication techniques of conceptual design ideas

● know about and use appropriate visual communication techniques for the communication of design ideas and outcomes

● understand the whakapapa of a design heritage

● begin to understand issues around copyright and the use of third-party content when developing design ideas and outcomes