School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsContextual Design StudiesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102275.1
Discipline: GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIES
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
101080 - Design Issues
Prerequisite
102266 Researching the Visual
About this Unit
Contextual design studies is the study of what happens around design practice – before, during and after – to explain its meaning and effect. Successful communication design has always depended on the connection between form, content, audience and context, and the designer's abilities to analyse, understand and clarify the contexts of communication have become more important to creative practice. In this unit students will learn to apply the theoretical frameworks of semiotic, thematic and rhetorical analysis used by the interdisciplinary field of Design Studies to interpret design’s potential as cultural expression and communication. Students will analyse visual signs and conventions as both targeted and tacit responses to a range of contexts revealing design’s interests in marketplaces, society and identity. Students will analyse various graphic examples, and design literature, as they investigate the significance and agency of design interactions, media artefacts and systems.
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| 1571.9 | Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) | CONTINUING |
| 1737.2 | Bachelor of Design - Visual Communication (Dean's Scholars) | CURRENT |
| 1838.1 | Bachelor of Creative Industries | CONTINUING |
| 1838.2 | Bachelor of Creative Industries | CURRENT |
| 1839.1 | Bachelor of Design/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CONTINUING |
| 1839.2 | Bachelor of Design/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CURRENT |
| 1840.1 | Bachelor of Communication/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CONTINUING |
| 1840.2 | Bachelor of Communication/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CURRENT |
| 1841.1 | Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CONTINUING |
| 1841.2 | Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CURRENT |
| 1842.1 | Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CONTINUING |
| 1842.2 | Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CURRENT |
| 1843.1 | Bachelor of Graphic Design (Pathway to Teaching Secondary) | CONTINUING |
| 1843.2 | Bachelor of Graphic Design (Pathway to Teaching Secondary) | CURRENT |
| 3729.4 | Bachelor of Design and Technology | CURRENT |
| 3730.4 | Bachelor of Industrial Design | CURRENT |
| 3731.4 | Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) | CURRENT |
| 6009.2 | Diploma in Communication/Bachelor of Creative Industries | CURRENT |
| 6011.1 | Diploma in Design/Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) | CONTINUING |
| 6011.2 | Diploma in Design/Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) | CURRENT |
| 6013.1 | Diploma in Design/Bachelor of Graphic Design (Pathway to Teaching Secondary) | CONTINUING |
| 6013.2 | Diploma in Design/Bachelor of Graphic Design (Pathway to Teaching Secondary) | CURRENT |
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