Level 3 Art Design

The Level 3 Art Design is a creative, highly engaging course. Level 3 students work independently (with teacher guidance) to generate their own proposal or investigation for a 14 credit - three board folio submission. Students can decide on any proposal ranging from a children's book story and design, through to social, environment campaigns, or corporate and business designs.

Students start the year working on their logo designs and refreshing their typography, Adobe software and layout skills. From there, students are able to carry on and work to their own strengths as they develop their folio board work; with a focus either on graphic design (layout, typography) or illustration based design (hand done or digital). All students work on a poster design and a layout design for their Term Two submission.

Students decide on what they will design and present in their folio submission. For example, they might choose from: illustrated books and graphic novels, websites, app design, animations, comics, magazines,  tickets, packaging and/or 3-D objects, depending what suits their design idea and proposal.

Students will develop and deepen their understanding of key design skills including:

• Adobe software skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign)
• Typography and Logo design skills
• Illustration/Image making, 
• Digital Illustration methods
• Layout design skills 

Creative thinking, critical thinking and independent work habits are important skills that students develop in Art Design. 

Students are encouraged to use paper and digital design journals to develop their ideas and thinking skills throughout the year. Creative experimentation. practice with computer skills and regular visual research looking at designers and artists are all important to help students to extend their ideas and skills.

There are two major assessments, one internal and one external.