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GCSE Graphical Communication
Graphic Design is the profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience.
Suppose you want to announce or sell something, persuade someone, explain a complicated system or demonstrate a process. If you use any visual medium at all, you are using a form of visual communication called graphic design.
Graphic Design is the most universal of all the arts. It is around us explaining, identifying and imposing meaning on the world. It is on the streets, in everything we read, it is on our bodies. We engage with design in road signs, adverts, film posters, albums, magazines, packaging, business identity, logos on our t-shirts, and washing labels on our jackets.
In this course you will explore, experiment and problem-solve, aiming to communicate the right message to a target audience effectively, combining and composing text with hand-created and digital mediums..
Course Outline:
This course contains 2 components as listed below:
1. Unit1Portfolioofwork (60% of the course)
• Terms1&2-PopArt& Advertising
• Terms3&4–Album Design
2. Unit 2 Examination Unit (40% of the course)
• Term5–Examination Project
Examination Board:
AQA
Head of Department:
Mr A J Grantham-Smith
“Graphics has helped me find my creative side, by hand and on a computer. Being taught how to use Photoshop is fun and also extremely useful for the modern day.”
Maia Wates 33