NCEA Level 3 Design and Visual Communication case studies
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NCEA Level 3 Design and Visual Communication (DVC) is a New Zealand senior secondary subject assessed through achievement standards within the National Certificate of Educational Achievement. It suits students in their final year of secondary schooling who are considering pathways into architecture, industrial and product design, spatial or interior design, graphic design, illustration, or engineering-related drafting, and who want to build a portfolio that demonstrates design thinking alongside visual communication skill. The NCEA Level 3 Design and Visual Communication case studies are 5 cases and about 2,943 words.
1Heritage Café Mezzanine: Usable Space or Consent Risk?
A Year 13 student is designing a pop-up café for a local heritage hall as part of a spatial design brief. The hall's main room has a floor area of 22 m², a flat ceiling at 2.4 m, and one 900 mm wide outward-opening door.
660 words, about 3 min2Citrus Juicer: Fixing the Lever Without Blowing the Print Budget
A student is developing a handheld citrus juicer for a school enterprise market. Target retail price is NZ$12, batch of 150.
594 words, about 3 min3Rugby Club Mark: One Logo, Three Reproduction Processes
A student is rebranding a local rugby club for NCEA Level 3 DVC. The club needs the mark to work embroidered on jerseys at 15 mm high, printed on a 3 m × 1 m sideline banner, and as a 1080 × 1080 social media avatar.
571 words, about 3 min4Bilingual Wayfinding: Macrons, Colour Blindness, and Three Entrances
A student is designing a wayfinding system for a large co-educational school: 1,400 students, 12 buildings on a sloping site, and a new wharenui-style cultural centre. The brief requires bilingual signage in English and te reo Māori, with correct tohutō (macrons).
564 words, about 3 min5Flat-Pack Desk: Why 'Just the Important Dimensions' Fails
A student is producing working drawings for a flat-pack desk for a local maker space. The desk is 1200 mm wide × 600 mm deep × 750 mm high, made from 18 mm MDF, joined with cam locks and dowels, and finished with 2 mm edge banding on visible edges.
554 words, about 3 min