Integrated Design – Bachelor of Design with Honours

Focused on the development of product through a sustainability context, shaped by materials exploration, this studio provides an introduction to product and industrial design practice. Students develop creative and analytical thinking, idea generation, visualisation and making, central to three-dimensional design practice. Students will develop techniques and processes in critique, form-giving, problem solving, user-experience and affective design.

Restrictions: 197132

In this studio students will develop three-dimensional design skills in making, prototyping, materiality, ergonomics and user-experience as they design and make furniture. Students will gain an understanding of the theoretical, historical and practical applications of these skills in Product and Industrial Design by exploring the development and production of furniture as products in one-off, batch or mass production contexts.

This course introduces students to the clothing design process, exploring various technical and conceptual skills to inform and support the creative process. Students will explore the relationship between the body and cloth, and the role that clothing plays in constructing identity.

Restrictions: 197135

This course provides students with introductory patternmaking and garment construction skills, to gain understanding of the garment development process for realising design ideas.

In this studio course students will be introduced to a range of art practices. Making artworks in relation to a prescribed project, they will explore specific techniques and processes, idea generation, and creative analytical thinking. They will learn to discuss and evaluate their work and the work of their peers.

Restrictions: 197132

In this studio course students will be introduced to a range of art practices. Making artworks in relation to a prescribed project, they will explore art strategies and processes, idea generation and creative and analytical thinking. They will learn to discuss and evaluate their work and the work of their peers.

Restrictions: 197131

How do we photographically ‘see’ the world? How does photography function in your world and the wider culture you live within? Through an introduction to the fundamentals of photography you will consider these questions and acquire specific skills and processes in digital photographic image making. You will use creative and analytical skills and idea generation to develop a practical project.

Restrictions: 221101

How are analogue darkroom technologies employed in contemporary photographic practice? Through experimentation with materials and engagement with the wider world you will develop a practical project. You will be introduced to selected darkroom and wet-based analogue photographic techniques and consider how you will make them relevant to your practice.

In this course students will be introduced to fundamental graphic design principles, understanding rhetorical approaches and building visual language. Students will explore a specific topic and develop content and compositions that are compelling and persuasive and communicate a clear and engaging message for both print-based, and dynamic interactive/motion graphic outputs. This course introduces core skills for all designers communicating visually.

Restrictions: 197131

In this course students will be introduced to typography, the foundational design skill of arranging type, exploring the interplay of content and meaning. Students will gain an understanding of fonts, the language of letterforms and the power of structuring written words through developing layout systems and information hierarchies to make information accessible and engaging. This course will be instrumental for all designers who deal with words and images for print, screen and beyond.

Restrictions: 197131, 222100

In this course students will be introduced to interaction design, and develop understanding of user experience design (UX) through the design of user interfaces (UI) in a web design context. Students will gain knowledge of prototyping and user testing practices through designing a digital interface, learning how information can be effectively communicated in online media. This course will be useful for all students interested in graphic design for interactive environments.

In this studio course students will be introduced to a range of interlacing techniques to enable exploration of surface, structure and 3D forms. Students will work with a range of hard and soft materials to develop skills in 3-dimensional ideation. This course provides a good grounding for students interested in the material intersections between spatial, fashion, industrial and textile design.

Restrictions: 197133

In this introductory studio course students will gain access to Textile studio through print processes. They will acquire specific techniques, skills, and processes through the investigation of print practice: through mark-making, colour, composition and drawing for the design and making of textiles. They will learn to discuss and evaluate their work and the work of their peers.

In this studio course students will be introduced to skills and processes to design physical, temporal, and digital spatial environments. They will explore core spatial design principles of site, time, light, and movement to create a digital spatial design. Students will develop creative and analytical thinking as well as idea generation and visualisation skills for spatial design practice.

Restrictions: 197131

In this studio course students will be introduced to performance and inhabitation. They will investigate the relationship between individual and collective rituals and the way they shape the interaction between people, places and objects. In a live-lab environment students will engage with moving image technologies, lighting, sound and material making towards the realisation of an immersive spatial experience.

In this studio course students will be introduced to creative and analytical thinking skills, idea generation and visualisation central to concept design as a practice. They will begin to acquire specific techniques, skills and processes for investigating and responding to imagined characters and stories through iterative drawing, referencing and digital painting.

In this studio course, students will experiment with creative and analytical thinking skills, idea generation and visualisation central to concept design as a practice. They will develop specific techniques, skills and processes for investigating and defining worldbuilding techniques through storytelling and the creative practice of iterative digital modelling, prototyping and digital matte painting.

An introduction to the development of personal forms of expression though an engagement with the values, concepts, traditions, art/design forms and structures of the whare whakairo.

Successful design development requires the integration of individual features and functions to achieve higher levels of design integrity. In this studio course students will explore and articulate creative responses to design challenges through critical awareness of contextual issues, elevating user-experience and perceived user benefits. Students will develop and apply core techniques, skills and processes in Product and Industrial Design.

Restrictions: 198257

Accelerating innovation requires strategy and implementation of a range of design activities. Students will gain knowledge, integrating digital and physical three-dimensional workflows for Product and Industrial Design, used in the visualisation, making and design of tangible products. Skills in CAD modelling, rendering, concept development, output methods and presentation are gained across a range of methods synthesising digital and physical contexts.

Prerequisites: 198157 OR 198158 Restrictions: 198257

Students will utilise the unique qualities of stretch knit fabrics to generate and realise fashion design outcomes. Through critical analysis, design principles, drawing and sampling processes, students will develop creative responses to a brief. We recommend that students wishing to take this course have a foundation in drawing, such as through 213155 Explorations in Drawing.

Prerequisites: 212157 or 212158 Restrictions: 212257

Students will gain an understanding of the use stretch knit fabrics in fashion industry methods of patternmaking and construction. Students will apply this understanding to realise their designs through practice-based research and creative problem solving.

Prerequisites: 212157 or 212158 Restrictions: 212257

By engaging with the attributes of light you will become articulate in understanding and influencing photographic meaning. You will develop skills in conventional and experimental photographic lighting technologies, within and beyond the lighting studio. Through photographic or moving image work, you will employ this knowledge in a self-directed project.

Prerequisites: 221157 or 22158 Restrictions: 221257

You will explore how ongoing developments in digital technologies within wider visual culture affect photography and lens-based practice. Working with Photoshop and related technologies, you will apply research and experimentation to your own and others work. You will consider how an understanding of the discourse around digital photographic technologies and how photography functions as a language will impact your practice.

Prerequisites: 221157 Restrictions: 221257

In this course students will explore strategies for developing a visual language using type and image. Students will design a printed publication using flexible and cohesive graphic systems for the meaningful, logical and consistent organisation of information on a page. This course develops skills that can be applied to any aesthetic, project or media across print and digital outputs.

Prerequisites: 222157 or 222158 or 222159 Restrictions: 222257

In this course, students will learn narrative and data visualisation techniques to aid audience interpretation of information in compelling and accessible ways. Students will consider different audiences and produce responses across multiple media. This course provides an opportunity to apply and extend typographic, graphic design and illustration skills, and consider how interactivity and narrative can enhance the communication of complex information.

Prerequisites: 222157 or 222158 or 222159 Restrictions: 222257

In this course students will deepen their knowledge of web design and digital media concepts. Students will design a comprehensive website through a user-centred design practice, including developing information architecture appropriate to a large-scale website. Students will develop their user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design skills further, integrating visual communication design principles into the online environment.

Prerequisites: 222157 or 222158 or 222159 Restrictions: 222257

In this course students will gain knowledge in knitted textiles and co-creation concepts. Students will develop a range of knitted samples and be introduced to dye techniques for wool yarns. Students interested in constructed materials will find that the course helps them develop understanding of how interlocking loops can be manipulated for multiple applications.

Restrictions: 223257

An introduction to Textile surface pattern design and sustainable and commercial screen print processes. Students will find that this course helps them develop and translate ideas by exploring various colouration processes and textile repeat structures.

Restrictions: 223257

In this studio course students will explore and design spaces for communities. Through an adaptive reuse project students learn about strategies for community engagement and urban experiences to begin to understand the importance of co-design and the shared nature of public places and facilities. Students are introduced to drawing and mapping techniques for spatial design practice including site analysis, architectural drawing conventions and 3D visualisations.

Prerequisites: 224157 or 224158 Restrictions: 224257

In this studio course students will explore sensory perception in physical and digital space. They will develop an understanding of the production of atmospheres and experiences through investigations of bodies, space and light. In a live-lab environment, students will work between physical and digital modalities and apply immersive technologies to generate spatial installations.

Prerequisites: 224157 or 224158 Restrictions: 224257

In this studio course, students will explore and articulate creative responses to design challenges through critical awareness of character and environment design, and production. Students will develop and apply core 2D and 3D concept design skills, processes and techniques to create original character and environment designs for an entertainment license.

Prerequisites: 1 of 296157 296158 Restrictions: 296257

In this studio course, students will explore and articulate creative responses to design challenges through critical awareness of prop and creature design and production. Students will develop and apply core 2D and 3D concept design skills, processes and techniques to create original prop and creature designs for an entertainment license.

Prerequisites: 1 of: 296157 296158 or permission from the lecturer Restrictions: 296257

The development of individual work that grows out of the investigation of a select range of Māori concepts, art forms, imagery, values and approaches that reflect a Māori world view.

Prerequisites: 298157

In this studio course students will explore and articulate creative responses to design challenges through critical inquiry and responsible design, to examine contemporary issues relevant to Industrial design in global contexts. Students will develop and apply core design techniques, skills and processes, along with an understanding of consumer research and its consequence, within the design context.

Restrictions: 198258

Students will move beyond designing product concepts to realisable manufactured batch production by articulating issues and considerations particular to developing products for manufacture. Considerations include robust design, design for recovery, costing, planning and manufacturing standards. Through a design and build project students explore and apply their individual and collaborative practices as required for developing a product within a user-experience context.

Prerequisites: 198157 or 198158 Restrictions: 198258

In this studio course students will develop critical inquiry and fashion design practise from historical and contemporary topics. This will focus on fashion research, consumer markets, idea generation processes through communication, drawing and sampling using woven fabrics.

Prerequisites: 212157 or 212158 Restrictions: 212258

In this studio course students will develop their technical design skills using pattern making and construction processes, through design refinement and applied fashion industry methods for woven fabrics.

Prerequisites: 212157 or 212158 Restrictions: 212258

Engaging with practice-based learning informed by research and experimentation you will explore the photographic archive as a cultural repository. Investigating social, political, personal, and historical uses of photography you will respond to an archive through a creative photographic project. Content includes principles of archival collection and management, film scanning and creative use of archival material.

Restrictions: 221258

How can creative practitioners formulate positions on critical issues associated with photographic representation and agency? You will develop strategic and ethically based explorations for a practical photographic outcome honouring the complexities of your chosen subject. You consider issues specific to making photographs in 21st century Aotearoa, including Te Tiriti, the gendered gaze and representation of people and whenua.

Restrictions: 221258

This course explores a designer’s role in creating, developing, positioning and implementing a brand. Students will create a visual identity system applied across print, packaging and promotional touchpoints. Learn about brand positioning, audience profiling and persuasive strategies alongside processes for logo identity design.

Prerequisites: 222157 or 222158 or 222159 Restrictions: 222258

In this course students will explore illustration as both art form and as a powerful medium for design communication and storytelling. Students will develop and apply techniques, skills and processes to create illustrations for a range of topics and audiences, which engage, inspire and provoke.

Prerequisites: 222157 or 222158 or 222159 Restrictions: 222258

In this course students will explore how visual language can be applied across different media to engage, inform and enable. Students will create a cohesive visual narrative to work across print and digital media. This will appeal to students interested in branding, marketing, transmedia narrative and motion design. It also provides excellent opportunities for innovative application of illustration and typographic design.

Prerequisites: 222157 or 222158 or 222159 Restrictions: 222258

Students will gain knowledge of fibre and yarn properties and create a range of woven and hand embroidered textiles. Students interested in communicating through cloth will find that the course helps them to translate intangible resonances into textile designs.

Restrictions: 223258

Students interested in digital processes for textile design will be introduced to digital print, digital embroidery processes, advanced repeat systems for textile surface design and an introduction to industry trends, market and collection building.

Restrictions: 223258

In this studio course students will investigate a range of adaptive reuse and spatial planning strategies through digital and physical modelling. They will develop an understanding of the dynamic relationship between communities, built environments and their spatial requirements to design an interior architectural mixed-use space. Students will gain knowledge of building materials, codes and structures alongside skills in creating architectural drawings.

Prerequisites: 224157 or 224158 Restrictions: 224258

In this studio course students will investigate materials, how they matter and their application in the built environment. They will explore materials and light to develop processes and concepts for the creation of spatial experiences. Students will gain knowledge about material specification and detailing, surface finishes, architectural lighting codes, acoustics and the conventions employed to express and communicate these.

Prerequisites: 224157 or 224158 Restrictions: 224258

In this studio, students will collaborate to explore and articulate the relationship between narrative and design for an animation or game design context. Students will engage critically through tone, genre and aesthetic studies, applying these through their creative responses using core concept design techniques. The final output will be a curated presentation of these finished ideas with consideration of both audience, client and medium.

Prerequisites: 296157 or 296158 or permission course coordinator Restrictions: 296258

In this studio, students will explore the design process from concept through to fabrication. Students will critically engage with the role of designer and fabricator using core concept design techniques, methods of manufacture, digital and physical fabrication techniques, and production drawings to communicate concept intention and realisation. The design will be resolved in the form of a tangible output.

Prerequisites: 296157 or 296158 or permission course coordinator Restrictions: 296258

The landscape of Product and Industrial Design is broad in application and reach. Establishing project scope informs the development of expectations of salient outputs to a design enquiry. Students establish a critical position through individual or collaborative exploration, with opportunities for varied contextual applications. Students consolidate and expand design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their design.

Prerequisites: 198263 or 198264 or 198265 or 198266 or permission course coordinator Restrictions: 198357

In this studio students will negotiate a critical position through individual or collaborative professional practices, with opportunities to apply their specialist skills to a range of contexts. In addition to advancing Product and Industrial design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of design work, students will develop and apply transferable skills relevant to professional and industry facing environments.

Prerequisites: 198263 or 198264 or 198265 or 198266 or permission course coordinator Restrictions: 198357

Students will design a collection for a proposed brand and a specified consumer market, building on their fashion industry knowledge and production development skills.

Prerequisites: 212263 Restrictions: 212357

Students will build on their structured garment skills through design refinement and tailoring methods to realise tailored garments.

Prerequisites: 212264 Restrictions: 212357

In this course we investigate the photographic book as a vehicle for exploring visual narrative. You will develop a self-directed theme into a photographic project, experiment with materiality, and construct a photobook. Visual language will be informed by encounters with innovative published work and consideration of audience. The course covers methods and strategies for book design, material considerations and production.

Prerequisites: 221157 or 221158 or 221263 or 221264 or 221265 or 221266 Restrictions: 221357

Engaging with practice-based learning informed by research and experimentation you will extend photographic technologies and their possibilities. You will creatively engage with a self-selected photographic technology, considering both historical and current photographic approaches. Digital, moving image, lighting studio and analogue technologies can all be used within individual projects. Advanced analogue photography workshops will be delivered.

Prerequisites: 22157 or 221158 or 221263 or 221264 Restrictions: 221357

In this course students will extend skills for managing complex editorial content for a curated reading experiences. Students will find that this course helps them develop their skills in typographic detailing, document structure, grids and hierarchy, alongside hands-on format, print-finishing and binding techniques. This course will be valuable for students interested in book/publication design, and those wanting to advance their typographic skills for any medium.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 2222xx courses Restrictions: 222357

In this course, students will extend their understanding of the role of branding in the context of the overall marketing and communication mix. Working with a studio group, students will create a cohesive brand narrative and apply it across a comprehensive range of touchpoints. This will be of particular appeal to students interested in branding, marketing and transmedia narrative, with opportunities for detailed exploration and application of graphic design, typography, motion graphics, photography, illustration and video.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 2222xx courses Restrictions: 222357

In this course students will extend their knowledge of web, service and experience design. Students will apply a robust user centred design process to create a comprehensive digital service through experience design. This course will be valuable to those interested in advancing their graphic design and service and experience design skills through digital media practice.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 2222xx courses Restrictions: 222357

In this course students will expand their content creation practice. Explore professional ways of generating, translating and presenting ideas and narratives into expressive and engaging visual forms for specific audiences. Outputs may include analogue or digital responses, encompassing illustration, moving image, graphic design, and digital interactive interfaces.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 2222xx courses Restrictions: 222357

In this studio course students will extend their competency of textile structures through advanced weaving and knit technology, such as digital technologies and jacquard weaving. Gaining knowledge of warp design and material testing, students will produce collections of knitted and woven textiles to address current and future needs, problems or opportunities.

Prerequisites: 223263 or 223265 Restrictions: 223357

Students will gain advanced technical knowledge towards large-format printing and colouration processes while innovating existing knowledge on textile repeat structures. Additional learning will include an introduction to digital visualization using various techniques. This course is a textile collection-based output.

Prerequisites: one of: 223266 223265 223264 223263 Restrictions: 223357

In this advanced studio course students will critically engage with spatial ecologies and regenerative practices. Through inquiry-based learning students will explore the interconnected and relational condition of communities, the built environment and landscapes. Students will consolidate and expand spatial design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their creative work.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 2242xx courses Restrictions: 224357

In this advanced studio course students will critically engage with spatial ecologies and the formation of agency. Through inquiry-based learning students will explore the dynamic and relational condition of cultural, social and historical concerns in spatial design practice. Students will consolidate and expand spatial design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their creative work.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 2242xx courses Restrictions: 224357

In this studio course, students will develop a proof of concept design proposal for a given text through the comparative lens of Concept for Film and Animation. Students will establish a critical position through individual and collaborative creative exploration and articulation to expand on concept design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their creative work.

Prerequisites: At least 15 credits at 200 level with a 296 prefix or permission course coordinator Restrictions: 296357

In this studio course, students will develop a proof of concept design proposal for a given text through the comparative lens of Concept for Game and Location-Based Experience design. Students will establish a critical position through individual and collaborative creative exploration and articulation to expand on concept design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their creative work.

Prerequisites: 15 credits at 200 level with a 296 prefix or permission course coordinator Restrictions: 296357

Developing visual responses to the exploration of issues (social, political, environmental, global) significant to Māori people and their communities.

Prerequisites: 298263

In this studio students develop and realise a complex project to demonstrate proficiency in Product and Industrial Design. Students work within a defined thematic using appropriate practice methods to advance and resolve complex design challenges to produce high-quality tangible outputs. In this milestone project students gain independence, demonstrate multifaceted problem solving skills and showcase their design skill set and practice.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 198367 or 198368 Restrictions: 198355

Students will establish their critical position as a designer and identify a context that informs the development of their fashion design outcome, using a variety of materials which may include high stretch knit, woven and non-woven fabrics.

Prerequisites: 212367 or 212368 Restrictions: 212310

Negotiating a critical position through an individual creative project, you will apply your specialist skills to a selected photographic context. In addition to extending photographic concepts, skills and processes in the production of personal creative work, you will develop and apply transferable skills relevant to creative environments. Content includes collaborative practices and output strategies relevant to future pathways. addition to advancing photographic concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their creative work, students will develop and apply transferable skills relevant to professional environments.

Prerequisites: 221367 OR 221368

In this course, students will develop a deep understanding of human-centered design processes that respond to the needs, preferences, and behaviours of the target audience. Students will create an innovative design strategy to address a societal issue. This course has broad appeal, offering students a high level of creative independence and an opportunity to focus on their specific area of design interest. Students are also encouraged to consider their role as a designer and how they can contribute to society in a meaningful way.

Prerequisites: 15 credits from 222367, 222368, 222369, 222372 Restrictions: 222302, 222303, 222311, 222321, 222331, 222341, 222356, 222371

In this studio students will design a collection to connect with a specific audience. With opportunities for varied contextual applications, students will consolidate and expand textile design concepts, techniques, skills and processes in the production of their creative work.

Prerequisites: 223367 OR 223368 Restrictions: 223303

In this studio course students will further develop their understanding of spatial ecologies. Students will consolidate and apply their individual spatial practice towards the design of a comprehensive spatial design proposition. In addition to advancing theoretical and practical approaches, techniques and skills in the production of their creative work, students will attain transferable skills relevant to professional environments.

Prerequisites: 224367 or 224368 Restrictions: 224352, 224371

Students will use worldbuilding and storytelling techniques to generate an original entertainment property that examines a contemporary wicked problem through a Science Fiction or Fantasy lens. Through the development and realisation of an advanced concept design project students will develop an understanding of the culture, ecosystem, technology and inhabitants of their world.

Prerequisites: 296367 or 296368

Using integrated design strategies, explore and apply methods, processes and practices through a research investigation that incorporates diverse design approaches. Students will undertake advanced research on a project of their choice.

Prerequisites: B- average over 198358, or 212358, or 221358, or 222358, or 223358, or 224358, or 296358 and 237330