Tauranga Boys’ College

11 Design

11DES Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Leana Buxton.

Prerequisites

Open entry. We welcome any student who has a creative, fun, willing to learn mindset!

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Course Overview

Term 1
Students will participate in a process of learning about different methods of creating design and imagery. This will include but is not limited to Photography, Collage and Digital Montage processes and mixed media to create mark making for use within design outcomes. This term will run in two week blocks and require students to document their working process to be assessed on their thinking and critique of methods.

Term 2
Students will begin looking at how to market an end of year showcase. They will look at their audience, the context their work will be viewed in and how best to target this audience. Outcomes will include the branding for the event, marketing material such as posters, instagram advertisements and reels. Students will be assessed on their proposed marketing material and branding guidelines.
Alongside this students will select their prefered style of work and begin unpacking the work of their selected artist model.

Term 3
Students will identify a topical, relevant issue that their design outcomes will explore for the duration of this term. This idea should be selected from the local community in which we live and the current issues society faces. Students will write a proposal for this and then begin exploring how best to show this idea in visual form. Students will choose their own media and will be encouraged to independently explore this. The assessment for this term is for students to have generated a body of work that shows their initial decision making in themes, typeface selection, artist model ideas and real world context.

Term 4
Students will learn about curating an exhibition and the decisions they will need to make in the lead up to the Showcase. A visit to the space will be involved and students will document this to best understand how to format and present their work. Using the work created in Term 3 students will continue to refine their ideas to create a body of work for submission from which their exhibition pieces will come from. Community engagement and how their work will be viewed and valued is important. Students will be assessed on both their portfolio of ideas as well as their resolved final exhibition piece.

Learning Areas:

Arts

Assessment Information

Students will complete four assessments over the course of four terms. The initial focus is on generating ideas and imagery before moving in to marketing and concluding with students making their own informed decisions about the direction for their work.