Revision notes.

Try this with Visual Communication Design

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Fields of design practice: contexts, practices and processes designers work within
• Conceptions of 'good design': Dieter Rams, Good Design Australia and design competitions
• Designers, specialists and stakeholders: roles, relationships and evaluating ideas
• Influencing factors and the designer's ethical and legal obligations
• Design elements: aesthetic decisions in point, line, shape, form, tone, texture, colour and type
• Design principles: figure-ground, balance, contrast, cropping, hierarchy, scale, proportion, pattern, repetition
• Comparing design examples: linking aesthetics to purpose, context, audience and influencing factors
• Discover and Define: divergent/convergent thinking, ethical research, the brief and design criteria
• Develop: generating ideas through ideation, prototyping and design critiques
• Foundations: the Double Diamond, human-centred and circular design, stakeholders and obligations
• The Deliver phase and the convergent, iterative cycle of refinement
• Testing and resolving concepts: documentation drawings, mock-ups, models and low-fidelity prototypes
• Pitching: presenting and justifying design concepts to an audience
• Evaluating against the brief, good design, and legal & ethical obligations
• Two distinct solutions: distinct in purpose and presentation format
• Selecting presentation formats, methods, media and materials for final delivery
• Visual language: using elements and principles to satisfy each communication need
• Design elements: point, line, shape, form, tone, texture, colour and type
• Design principles: figure-ground, balance, contrast, cropping, hierarchy, scale, proportion, pattern & repetition
• Methods, media, materials and drawing conventions across fields of practice