702-120 Design Communications 1A

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702-120 Design Communications 1A
Credit Points	12.5
HECS Band	2
Coordinator	Ms Lindy Joubert
Semester	1 (view timetable)
Contact	Up to one hour of lectures and four hours of tutorials per week
Subject Description	This subject introduces drawing skills appropriate to design and building. These skills are taught through a series of freehand and constructed drawing assignments held both outdoors and in the studio, and are developed concurrently with the graphic skills required in Building Technology 1A and Introduction to Design. Emphasis is given to development of orthographic and delineation skills, and to the representation of form and volume. Content includes a digital skills module.
Assessment	Freehand and constructed drawing exercises held both outdoors and in the studio (63%), a three hour perspective drawing test (7%), life drawing in class (15%), and a computer photoshop exercise (15%).
Prescribed Texts	D Cooper, Drawing and Perceiving. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 2nd edition, 1992.

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