VCE Visual Communication Design Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Fields of design practice: contexts, practices and processes designers work within3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Professional design practice

2. Conceptions of 'good design': Dieter Rams, Good Design Australia and design competitions3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Professional design practice

3. Designers, specialists and stakeholders: roles, relationships and evaluating ideas3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Professional design practice

4. Influencing factors and the designer's ethical and legal obligations3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Professional design practice

5. Design elements: aesthetic decisions in point, line, shape, form, tone, texture, colour and type3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Design analysis

6. Design principles: figure-ground, balance, contrast, cropping, hierarchy, scale, proportion, pattern, repetition3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Design analysis

7. Comparing design examples: linking aesthetics to purpose, context, audience and influencing factors3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Design analysis

8. Discover and Define: divergent/convergent thinking, ethical research, the brief and design criteria3 · AOS3

   Unit 3 AOS3 — Design process: defining problems and developing ideas

9. Develop: generating ideas through ideation, prototyping and design critiques3 · AOS3

   Unit 3 AOS3 — Design process: defining problems and developing ideas

10. Foundations: the Double Diamond, human-centred and circular design, stakeholders and obligations3 · FND

    Units 3 & 4 — Foundational concepts and frameworks

11. The Deliver phase and the convergent, iterative cycle of refinement4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Design process: refining and resolving design concepts

12. Testing and resolving concepts: documentation drawings, mock-ups, models and low-fidelity prototypes4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Design process: refining and resolving design concepts

13. Pitching: presenting and justifying design concepts to an audience4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Design process: refining and resolving design concepts

14. Evaluating against the brief, good design, and legal & ethical obligations4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Design process: refining and resolving design concepts

15. Two distinct solutions: distinct in purpose and presentation format4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Presenting design solutions

16. Selecting presentation formats, methods, media and materials for final delivery4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Presenting design solutions

17. Visual language: using elements and principles to satisfy each communication need4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Presenting design solutions

18. Design elements: point, line, shape, form, tone, texture, colour and type4 · EAP

    Units 3 & 4 — Design elements, principles & methods toolkit

19. Design principles: figure-ground, balance, contrast, cropping, hierarchy, scale, proportion, pattern & repetition4 · EAP

    Units 3 & 4 — Design elements, principles & methods toolkit

20. Methods, media, materials and drawing conventions across fields of practice4 · EAP

    Units 3 & 4 — Design elements, principles & methods toolkit