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DCO40001 25 Credit Points Hawthorn Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students

Duration

One semester

Contact hours

72 per semester

2021 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 2
Dates: 2 Aug 21 - 31 Oct 21 Results: 7 Dec 21 Last self enrolment: 15 Aug 21 Census: 31 Aug 21 Last withdraw without fail: 17 Sep 21

Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
2 Aug 21 - 31 Oct 21

Results:
7 Dec 21

Last self enrolment:
15 Aug 21

Census:
31 Aug 21

Last withdraw without fail:
17 Sep 21

Prerequisites

300cp BH-DESCMN2

Aims and objectives

This unit provides students with opportunities to identify and explore individual design interest areas that link design research and practice. The unit is structured to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of the link between design research, creative innovation and practice-based application. Studio classes provide opportunities for students to initiate, explore and expand individual areas of design interest into project opportunities. The projects will give students the scope to blend contemporary design research and advance their practice techniques. Students will be expected to demonstrate a sophisticated knowledge of type and image as well as typesetting and conventions.

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Produce an innovative concept in response to a practice-based project brief
2. Apply a range of visual solutions to a concept including the integration of a design process narrative
3. Apply sophisticated type and image as well as typesetting and conventions to the visual solutions
4. Justify the visual resolution reflecting on the strategy, research process, design experimentation, and iteration.

Courses with unit

Bachelor of Design (Communication Design)

Unit information in detail

- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.

Teaching methods

This unit will involve up to 300 hours of work including:

Type	Hours per week	Number of Weeks	Total
Face to Face Contact Tutorial	6	12	72
Online Contact	N/A
Specified Learning Activities Lectures, discussions, critiques, visual audit, concept development, analysis, design exploration, prototype development and formal and informal presentations and interviews.	16	12	192
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, proposal preparation, presentation preparation, folio preparation Interview practice	3.3	12	36
TOTAL			300 hours/25cp

Assessment

Types	Individual or Group task	Weighting	Assesses attainment of these ULOs
1. Design tasks and research	Individual	30%	1
2. Design Prototype	Individual	40%	2, 3
3. Workbook and Prototype presentation	Individual	30%	4

General skills outcomes

During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently

Content

This unit teaches students to ground their design work in sound research and innovation processes. Topics for discussion will include:
• Communication through form, considering the traditions and 'isms' of graphic design
• The shifting nature of Communication Design in a complex media landscape
• The designer as mediating the reception of information and contemporary social experience
• Design authorship
• Design detail and refinement.

Study resources

- Reading materials.

Reading materials

A list of reading materials will be made available in the Unit Outline.