LibGuides: Notre Dame: Visual Communication Design

VCAA

VCE Visual Communication Design
Accredited Period
Units 1 - 4: 2018-2023

VCD Past Exams and Reports

Current Study Design

2020 VCE VCD exam

2020 VCE VCD exam report

Visual Communication Victoria

Visual Communication Victoria
Learn VCD
Richard Roberts is a VCD teacher at St Aloysius College in North Melbourne.

Communication Arts Journal

Typography

Photography

Interactive

Illustration

Design

Advertising

Careers

COMMUNICATION DESIGN:

Graphic Designer
Web/App Designer
Advertising
Video Editor
Photojournalist
Design Education
Corporate Design/Branding
Book Cover Design
Packaging/Label Design

Inspiring Instagram Accounts

P.roduct
Product & Industrial Design
P.roduct logo P.roduct logo. [image] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p.roduct/?hl=en [Accessed 25 August 2021.

Type and Imagery Videos

Saki Mafundikwa: Ancient African Alphabets

Matthew Carter: ATypl 2018 Talk

The History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest

Past Vis Com Students

Top Designs is held at Melbourne Museum each year; the best of VCE students in design subjects are selected.

Unit 4 Vis Com Folio - Christina Antonia

Unit 4 Vis Com Pitch by Andrew McCorkell

2019 Top Designs Exhibitors

Saran Kim was a 2016-17 VCD student in Top Designs in 2017.

Tutorials

Click here for 101 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials by Andrei Stefan

Tutorial Content listed below:

How to create specific patterns
Text effects
How to use brush effects
Icons and UI Designs
Flat Designs
Detailed Illustration Tutorials
Character and Portrait Tutorials
Animal and Mascot Tutorials
3D Text, Logo Design
Gradient Mesh
Cartoon Creature Design
Digital Inking

"martini glass vector" by tr8_traitdesigns is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Homestyler

SketchUp

Watch this before you get started with SketchUp

SketchUp - Tutorial for Beginners in 10 minutes

"3D Computer Rendering - Kitchen (SketchUp Rendering)" by Patrick Hoesly is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Autodesk Sketchbook

Intro to Autodesk Sketchbook Tutorial - Click

"Fly little turtle! fly!" by Cesar Mascarenhas is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

Rendering

* Enhancing Form and Depicting Surface, Texture, Materials and Cast Shadows by Richard Roberts

* Light Source + Cube Render Video

"Red Box - Proposed Rendering" by Jeremy Levine Design is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Architect Osama Elfar presents this video, including suggestions on importing the sketch, brush settings, and applying a drop shadow gradient.

Admad Adian shows how to draw shadows in perspective using a light source and a shadow vanishing point.

Observational Drawing

Observational Drawing Overview Google Slides

"Observational Drawing #10" by MaddieRoseMary is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Reference Materials

Inspiration Grid: Photography
Includes: landscape, night photography, mirrored compositions, beauty, fashion, architectural, fine art, digital collages, beach, chemical waste, celebrity portraits, travel, sports, cars, macro photography, fruit, wildlife, drone, bubbles, double exposures, wide angles, dogs, landscapes.

Webflow.com: 20 Web Design Inspirations

Inspiration Grid: Advertising

The SketchMonkey
Marouane was a designer, now he is a YouTuber. He re-designs cars and has many videos showing the redesigns.

Sketching a Chair

Sketch A Day: How to Draw a Car in 3-Point Perspective

Inspiration Grid: Pop Culture
Includes: Manga-inspired Street Art, Pop Culture Artworks and Illustrations, Cross-Hatching Illustrations, Digital Illustrations, Comic-Book Inspired Illustrations, Heroes and Villains, 3D Characters, Mundane Cyberpunk, Character Design, Art Sponge, Surreal Paintings, Religion Remastered, Street Art, Cartoon Fossils, Fantasy & Sci-Fi Illustrations, Custom Pop Culture Figures, Kaleidoscope Street Art, Dwayne Gretzky, Digital Sculptures, Japanese Style Superheroes and Villains, Concept Art, Embroidered Artworks.

Inspiration Feed: Packaging Design
Includes: Shoe Packaging, Coffee Packaging, Food Packaging, Cookie Packaging, Vintage Packaging, Book Packaging, Soap Packaging, Pet Packaging, Milk Packaging, Honey Packaging, Albums, Beer Packaging, Wine Labels, Minimal Packaging.

"Design Blog Sociale - 23 June 2008 - Vitamin Packaging by Robert Ferrell A" by SOCIALisBETTER is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Inspiration Feed: Logo Designs
Logos themed around: Football Teams, Google Doodles, Websites, Logos with Hidden Messages, Famous Companies, Fruit and Vegies, Text-Oriented, Numbers, Sports, Lions, Owls, Anchors, Heart and Love, Golf, Badges, Emblems, Ribbons, Food, Banks, Lego, Negative Space, Rockets, Hexagons, Birds, Music, Japanese, Bakeries, Fitness, Cameras, Photography, Construction, Health/Medical, Film/Media, Coffee, Restaurant, Monograms, Church, Word Animals, Olympics, Zombie Apocalypse, Words as Images, Fictional, Hipster.

"UXCampSeoul logo design" by namho is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Inspiration Grid: Branding

"Packaging Detail" by VFS Digital Design is licensed under CC BY 2.0

FormTrends: Cars, Motorcycles, Aircraft, Bicycles, Boats, Architecture
The website also looks at colour and trim in cars, interiors, industry, and technology. This is a U.S. site, though!
Car Body Design
Includes 2D and 3D tutorials, car rendering, SketchBook Tutorials, Car illustration tutorials, and more.

Dribble: inspirational designs, illustrations, graphic elements from global designers
Graphic Design Inspiration: Typography, Graphic Elements, Page Layout Techniques.
Muzli by Invision Website
Mines numerous design websites such as Dribbble, Behance, Designinspiration, ffffound, and Mashable.
Design Boom
Includes a product library of furniture, lighting, bath, wellness, kitchen, accessories, textiles, wall, floor, room systems, room acoustics, fittings, appliances, building construction, parking systems, materials, seats, tables, pet furniture, storage.

Communication Design

What is Communication Design? Everything You Need to Know
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Graphic Design vs Communication Design vs Visual Communication, including examples, corporate design and branding, advertising campaigns, book cover design, photojournalism, web design, mobile app design, packaging and label creation.

"Communication Design 1 (Feb '12)" by VFS Digital Design is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Industrial Design

"isometric man" by Philippe Put is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Intro to Isometric on Illustrator
Illustrator Tutorial: the basics of Isometric Design
Isometric Drawing: what is it? Techniques. Circles
Orthagonal and Isometric drawing techniques, sketching on an isometric grid, grating, drawing all the lines, adding wheels, ellipses in isometric, using an isometric template.
Practice Industrial Design
This runs through the task of Industrial Design with three different tasks. Includes learning intentions, success criteria, brief, research, understanding two-point perspectives including videos, visual ideas and concepts, development of chosen idea, orthagonal drawings, isometric drawings, evaluation.

Designers Practices

Elements and Principles

Malika Favre, Graphic Artist
Her work is described as Pop Art meets OpArt.
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Noma Bar, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Artist
VCD Theory Design Elements and Principles
Colour, Shape, Line, Tone, Texture, Form, Point, Type by Richard Roberts.

Type and Imagery

Matthew Carter
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Matthew Carter is one of the most well-known type designers in the world.
Kate Pullen, Illustrator and Letterer
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The Letterettes
Four girls that love all forms of lettering.
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Canva's Ultimate Guide to Font Pairing
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There is technique to the selection of fonts for your designs.
Canva: Build Your Brand: How to Choose the Right Fonts
Typewolf
Jeremiah Shoaf is a designer that created his own website with the goal to make all his information related to typography.
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https://twitter.com/typewolf
https://www.pinterest.com.au/typewolf/whats-trending-in-type/

"Trays of poster type" by

edinburghcityofprint is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Anatomy of Type by Paul Rogers
Exploration of fonts, font families, Serif, Sans-serif, Tracking, Kerning. Free Downloadable A3 poster of common typographic elements.

SAT Folios

Melbourne Museum: VCD Folios
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Includes examples of student work which demonstrate excellence.
VCD Theory Techniques for Analysing Visual Communications
Richard Roberts Is Visual Arts leader at St Aoloysius College in Melbourne, and their Vis Com teacher. Hs has also worked for VCAA as a Vis Com assessor, and is Vice President of VCV, and co-developer of the VCD trial exam.