This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
On this module students will be introduced to a range of 2D & 3D design techniques, processes, essential skills, and understanding to enable them to quickly and confidently communicate their own design concepts and solutions in response to creative exercises and briefs. The skills taught on this module will be required, developed and deployed on many other modules throughout the programme, and should be considered essential core skills. Spatial and Interior Design students will work in an open studio, in order to establish early an ethos, where design is studied and seen to operate in the digital realm, on the page and spatially and environmentally in the physical realm.
Total Contact Hours: 33 (includes workshops and critiques)
Private Study Hours: 117
Total Study Hours: 150
Main assessment methods:
Research Portfolio (including 500 words commentary) 50%
Practical Project 50%
Reassessment methods:
Reassessment instrument: Like-for-like
Indicative Reading List:
Dodsworth, S. (2018) The Fundamentals of Interior Design. London: Bloomsbury
Exner, U. and Pressel, D. (2008) Basics Spatial Design. Basel: Birkhauser
Malinic, R. (2016). Book of Ideas – A Journal of Creative Direction and Graphic Design. London: Brand Nu
Meredith, D. and Hunt. J. (2017). Visual Communication Design. London: Bloomsbury
Muller, J. (2017). The History of Graphic Design: 1: 1890 – 1959. London: Taschen
Shaoqiang, W. (2016). Exhibition Art, Graphics and Space Design. Barcelona: Promopress
Yates, D., & Price, J. (2015). Communication Design. London. Bloomsbury.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Generate design ideas, concepts, proposals in response to a brief.
2 Understand and use a range of design techniques and skills to create their own design work.
3 Have an understanding of the broader context of their practice within contemporary and commercial visual communication media platforms.
4 Experiment with and test 3D design ideas and document the process.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Apply critical judgement in resolving issues and problems.
2 Be self-critical of work in progress, responding to the critical insights of others and investigating and assessing alternative methods and techniques.
3 Prioritise tasks and work efficiently on a project over a period of time.
4 Demonstrate flexibility of thought and an openness to new thinking.
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