NCEA Level 2 Art Design

This course prepares students for a career in Visual Art Design or any other of the many related digital design careers. This creative course consists of drawing digitally in a free and personal way, whilst understanding the principles of design and the ways that designers work. In particular, they will learn about the design processes that link to their own theme, and how to communicate visually about something that they are passionate about.

Potential areas of student-led study in this course:

• Character design and animation.
• Infographics, book illustration, comic graphics, typography.
• Creating a business concept and developing promotional material including logos, posters, web pages etc.
• Game design illustration, world building (design the way the game looks and the characters within it).

This study enables students to develop transferable skills that they can apply to a wide range of career opportunities in Design such as graphic, website, advertising, campaign promotion, industrial, fashion, typographic, illustration, architecture and interior design to name a few.

Note: Students may take up to two of the NCEA Level 2 Visual Art courses offered: Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture.

Below you can see examples from Level 2 Ar Design portfolios that were graded Excellence. Click the images to enlarge: