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Title
Investigate and apply design principles and elements
Level
3
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and
evaluate systems of proportion as applied to design; describe
visual balance in design; analyse and evaluate function in
design; and analyse and evaluate aesthetic elements of design.
Classification
Design > Generic Design
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
This unit standard may be used to award credit for the achievement of learning outcomes
consistent with Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum (Learning Media Wellington,
1995).
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify and evaluate systems of proportion as applied to design.
Evidence requirements
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Range
fibonacci series, golden section, human proportion.
expiring
1.1
Different systems of proportion are identified.
1.2
Identified systems of proportion are evaluated in terms of their application to the
design brief.
Outcome 2
Describe visual balance in design.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Formal balance is described in terms of its composition in relation to the brief.
Range
symmetrical about a centre line.
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2.2
Informal balance is described in terms of its composition in relation to the brief.
Range
2.3
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asymmetrical, relationship of positive and negative spaces.
Radial balance is described in terms of its composition in relation to the brief.
Range
radiating from a central point.
Outcome 3
Analyse and evaluate function in design.
Range
functional design includes but is not limited to ideas in - product, system,
spatial, and graphic design.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Analysis enables functions within existing designs to be identified.
3.2
Possible design solutions are evaluated in terms of the functional requirements
established by the brief.
3.3
Final design solutions are evaluated in terms of the functional requirements
established by the brief.
Outcome 4
Analyse and evaluate aesthetic elements of design.
Evidence requirements
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Final design solutions are evaluated in terms of the aesthetic considerations
4.1
Analysis enables aesthetics within existing designs to be identified.
4.2
Possible design solutions are evaluated in terms of the aesthetic considerations
established by the brief.
4.3
established by the brief.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
31 August 1996
31 December 2014
Revision
2
8 October 1998
31 December 2014
Revision
3
18 February 2002
31 December 2014
Revision
4
15 January 2004
31 December 2014
Review
5
4 December 2012
31 December 2014
Reinstatement
6
19 March 2015
31 December 2017
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0226
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
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