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Course Description

These design units have been created to cater for artistic and creative students who aspire to move into creative Tertiary courses or occupations but will not require an ATAR score.

The focus for the units is the ‘Design Process’ and will give the students a broad depth of experiences to prepare them for such careers as graphic design, photography, architecture, website design, interior decorating, fashion design, game design, industrial design and promotional design.

Unit 3 – Product Design
In this unit students will undertake a design process to produce commercial products for a range of different purposes. Their major project will involve students creating products for a particular audience or client. Students will learn how to lay out a design portfolio (to a professional level) and in doing so learn about design codes, conventions, design skills and processes.

The products that they will create will incorporate a range of skills, techniques and programs such as Illustrator, Photoshop, 3D printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, printing, digital photography, as well as some traditional hand skills.

Unit 4 – Cultural Design
In this unit students will begin to learn and understand how culture and ethics can influence their designing. Students will be asked to develop designs and products that will serve to either address, ‘deal with’ or raise awareness of these issues.

As with Unit one, students will be asked to undertake a design process to produce a range of products to suit a given purpose using a wide range of materials and equipment except this time through the focus will be on designing a project around solving social/cultural issues.