Target Year levels : Middle and Senior School

A Type of Resource is a exciting new resource prepared by an experienced VCD teacher and typography enthusiast, Geoff Baker. This resource is a comprehensive unit of work including topics that cover the history, language, anatomy and inspiration for teaching Typography at middle and senior school level.
Using the Double Diamond Design Process, this resources encourages divergent and convergent thinking to be applied across thirteen challenging, informative and exciting activities.

Introducing Technical Drawing - Manual and Digital is a resource that targets both teachers and students.

Target Audience: VCD Teachers
Part 1 - Manual Technical drawing

Part 1 viewing time is approxmately 60 mins

Manual Technical Drawing introduces teachers to the basics of using instruments to produce technical drawings. 
This part includes 5 filmed demonstrations to instruct the VCD teacher on how to construct Orthogonal, Isometric, Planometric, One Point and Two Point perspective drawings.
Ideally, you will learn the skills via the demonstrations and teach your students. However, it is also possible to share these films with students if you are working remotely or a student is absent and working from home.

Target Audience: VCD Students and Teachers
Part 2 - Digital Technical drawing

Part 2 viewing time is approxmately 60 mins

Digital Technical Drawing is a series of 5 recordings that demonstrate how to re-draw your manual technical drawings using Adobe Illustrator. Ideally, the students will draw manually and then scan and trace/re-draw their drawings using Illustrator. A good level of skills with Illustrator is required for this part. 
The recordings demonstrate how to use a range of Illustrator tools to construct Orthogonal, Isometric, Planometric, One Point and Two Point perspective drawings.

This VCV workshop is supplied as a downloadable film and work tasks, to watch and share with your students.

Advancing with Illustrator is a filmed resource that is suitable for teachers who are looking to expand their Adobe Illustrator skills and for students who have basic skills with Illustrator.
(This resource was supplied as a gift to the 2020 VCV members, and is now available for all others to purchase.)

This resource builds on the skills covered in the Beginning with Illustrator resource, but can also be used by those with basic Illustrator skills.

This VCV workshop is supplied as a downloadable film and work tasks, to watch and share with your students.

VCD teacher and Illustrator, Iolanthe Iezzi, shares her skills with Adobe Illustrator  in a suite of engaging short films.

Beginning with Illustrator  includes instructional films and accompanying notes that aim to instruct and inspire VCD students Year 7-10, and teachers who are at a beginner level or need to learn some specific tools that are included in the workshops.

Who are the industrial designers of the future?

The students of now are the designers of the future.

A middle school industrial design resource

This is a one semester course that includes a range of drawing tasks that targets middle school students and challenges them to respond to a given brief.

• Filmed interview with Lisa Oaten from Studio Periscope
• Discussion questions to be answered while watching the film
• Answers to discussion questions
• Series of drawing and design tasks to be completed by students including writing a brief, design thinking, orthogonal drawing, paraline and perspective drawing, orthogonal drawing, rendering and evaluation tasks.

The Design Process of an Architect is developed for year 9 or 10 level Visual Communication Design classes.

The Resource has 3 components, supplied as downloadable files:

1. Filmed interview with an Architect - Darren Naftal
2. Questions to be answered while viewing the film
3. A series of architectural drawing tasks that respond to a brief

View sample pages here

A VCV collaboration with DET

VCV has collaborated with the Department of Education and Training to produce a VCD resource that targets Year 9/10 students. This comes as a downloadable file.

The resource provides teachers with a short film interview with Peader Thomas, a Melbourne based Illustrator who was one of the Industry Speakers at the VCV Industry Speaker event in 2015.

VCV have been busy producing a technical drawing resource that covers paraline and perspective drawing, orthogonal drawing and dimensioning and package net drawing.

The resource includes a series of A3 landscape layout pages with exercises, information and technical drawing design briefs.

The resource targets Year 7 - 10 Design students and aims to introduce students to technical drawing using original imagery, creative design briefs and a series of beginner to intermediate exercise.

There is a glossary of terms and a series of tests at the end of the resource. This comes as a downloadable file.

VCV have prepared a resource to assist with teaching Year 9-11 VCD students in the area of Typography. The downloadable files includes 17 pages - inspirational websites, blogs and magazine links, anatomy of type information and tests, lessons on how to be creative with type, how to create a unique alphabet and how to distort and manipulate type using Adobe Illustrator.