Art and Design (Graphics)

Course summary

Year 1 You will attend a series of workshops that cover the bases of visual communication and the pillars of graphic design. You will be instructed how to use different media before being given the freedom to explore these experimentally and creatively to a series of mini briefs. You will learn how to use a wide range of artistic media, both 3D and 2D, hand-made and digital, with improved competence for more professional outcomes. You will also learn how to deconstruct works of art in greater depth in order to understand how other designers approach different design briefs. By the summer you will have started your main A level project, where you will use and display the skills you have acquired to a thorough, personal and well-developed project. Year 2 You continue to develop your main portfolio of work to create a final piece. This is worth 60% of the A level. In February you will start a second project, which makes up the final 40% of the A level.