Course topics.

Try this with Visual Communication Design

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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