Course Title: Design Discipline Project - Illustration
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Design Discipline Project - Illustration
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GRAP9459 |
RMIT University Vietnam |
Undergraduate |
840H School of Communication and Design |
Face-to-Face |
Viet2 2020, Viet1 2021, Viet3 2021, Viet2 2022, Viet1 2023, Viet3 2023 |
GRAP9460 |
RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus |
Undergraduate |
840H School of Communication and Design |
Face-to-Face |
Viet2 2021, Viet1 2022, Viet3 2022, Viet2 2023, Viet1 2024 |
Course Coordinator: Becky Lu
Course Coordinator Phone: +84 787861372
Course Coordinator Email: becky.lu@rit.edu.vn
Course Coordinator Location: SGS; RMIT Vietnam
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Required Prior Study
You should have satisfactorily completed your Year One courses as well as GRAP2970 Design Discipline Theory – Illustration and GRAP2962 Design Discipline Skills –- Illustration before you commence this course.
Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.
Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.
Course Description
In this course, you will develop an advanced understanding of illustration principles and techniques and apply this knowledge and skills in the execution of a project. You will learn how to manage your project to achieve the desired outcomes within the given resources. Through production-related inquiries, studio-based processes and group critiques, you will explore current and emerging thinking in the specialised practice of illustration.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
The course supports your development in the following Program Learning Outcomes:
PLO4: Apply advanced visualisation and representation skills (including use of drawing, modelling and colour) to support design practice.
PLO5: Apply core technical skills and emerging design knowledge, skills and technologies, both independently and collaboratively, to enable further learning and professional practice.
PLO6: Exercise creativity, critical thinking and independent judgement to identify and solve real-world design challenges, and define and communicate innovative solutions.
PLO7: Apply planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills to the end-to-end design process.
PLO8: Develop responsibility and accountability for the development of a personal design practice that demonstrates an original, ethical, innovative and professional approach to design.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
CLO1 Demonstrate a strategic approach to project framework construction, its design situation and problems to achieve design outcomes within given resources
CLO2 Establish and maintain effective developmental processes through engagement in production-related tasks
CLO3 Utilise a range of illustration principles, skills, mediums and techniques leading to project outcomes that best communicate key attributes to stakeholders
CLO4 Refine production-related outcomes through problem-solving and in response to critical feedback
CLO5 Evaluate the suitability of creative solutions in relation to the content, context and target audience specified in the brief
CLO6 Demonstrate personal development and direction in illustration practices
Overview of Learning Activities
Delivered in a design studio format, you will be actively engaged in learning that involves a range of face-to-face, self-directed and online activities. This course engages you in learning about design via an immersion into specific aspects of the discipline, its methods and practices through self-directed design projects. These projects involve a range of planned learning experiences including:
- Individual and group problem solving.
- Sketch ideation and the iterative development of design concepts.
- Making and prototyping for the purpose of further refining propositions.
- Presenting and reflecting on individual and collective learning processes.
Learning activities include studio sessions where ideas are developed and documented through a variety of methods: prototyping ideas into material design artefacts within workshop environments; developing a practice of journaling design ideas; lectures and studio tutorials; peer review processes; and, independent design inquiry and critique.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT University will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment. A selected range of supplies are available, as well as support from technical staff. You will also have access to a wide range of online resources through RMIT Vietnam University Library.
Some projects that involve constructed outputs may require additional materials – this will be negotiated with the lecturer when the project scope is agreed.
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course Learning Outcomes and on your development against the Program Learning Outcomes. Assessment may include projects, critiques, reports, journals, sketchbooks, and/or presentations individually or in groups.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Creative Analysis, 20%. CLOs 1 & 2.
Assessment Task 2: Creative Production & Presentation, 50%. CLOs 3, 4 & 5
Assessment Task 3: Development, 30%. CLOs 4 & 6.
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long -term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.