Visual Communication

Purpose

This Visual Communication and Design course aims to develop students’ knowledge, understanding, and skills to communicate ideas and information with clarity, purpose, and integrity. Students learn to use appropriate design language to describe, analyse, and evaluate both their own work and the work of others, recognising creativity as a God-given gift that can be used to serve and communicate truth.

Students are encouraged to think creatively and solve problems imaginatively, exploring how design can meet real needs and positively impact others. They develop practical skills in freehand drawing, instrumental drawing, and rendering, using both traditional methods and digital illustration software. Throughout the course, students are challenged to use visual communication responsibly by creating designs that reflect care, insight, and a commitment to contributing to a more just and flourishing world.

Structure and Content

The content (as shown below) includes Arts Practice and Responding to the Arts. Each Semester covers 3 to 4 main topics, supported by minor learning topic areas. Each main topic culminates in the student presenting a final artwork. Students are required to complete given design tasks, which they are encouraged to solve creatively and imaginatively. 

Some topics include: 

• Applying the Design Elements and Principles 

• Research Assignments 

• Advertisement Analysis 

• Writing and responding to a Design Brief 

• Instrumental Technical Drawing 

• Observational drawing and tonal rendering 

• Creative visualisation drawing 

• Packaging or print design 

• Two-point perspective 

• Architectural drafting and rendering 

• Product Design

Students are given opportunities to develop skills in layout design, typography, rendering and drafting using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator software.