Showing 37 courses for the subject Media Design
This course will use a range of visualisation methods to represent design concepts and elements. Methods used include hand drawing, photography, motion graphics, animation and video.
This course will introduce students to basic principles of game design, animation and motion design. Fundamental game design concepts, such as mechanics and loops, will be explored and analysed to enable students to conceptualise and develop playable...
This course introduces students to the role of visual and written communication in contemporary design practice. A range of techniques will be taught to help students communicate design concepts, critical thinking, and design processes to develop and...
In this course students engage with emerging technologies to visualise and create 3D forms, bodies and spaces. Students address the distinctive features of creating form and making digitally fabricated artefacts.
This course introduces students to, and develops their fluency in, design vocabularies and composition specific to the configuration of design elements. Analogue and digital techniques are used to explore body, space, form and movement.
This course introduces students to narratives and storytelling in the context of visual design. Students will be exposed to a range of traditional and contemporary examples including Māori storytelling practice and examples from film, animation, digi...
This course focuses on creative exploration of materials and processes. Students will learn various manual and digital techniques and apply these to the exploration and production of expressive forms.
This course introduces students to the concepts and fundamentals of interactive visual perception through creative coding and AI for interactive interfaces. Students will develop their own visual, animated, multimedia and interactive design solutions...
This course explores the basics of graphic design and photography through hands-on projects. Students are introduced to professional design practice through the use of a brief, design processes, and critique. Using design software, as well as sketchi...
In this introductory course students will learn the principles of fashion design by researching material properties and developing design models that lead to the production of wearable forms. Emphasis is placed on pattern design methods, covering a r...
By observing and analysing historical approaches and responses in and between cultures and design, students will explore design from a place-based perspective.
Whakapapa Design I
DSDN172
This course is deeply rooted in Māori culture. Whakapapa Design emphasises ethical behaviour and the consequences of our actions as designers. Whakapapa Design highlights interconnections between people, place, and all living entities and offers a pa...
In this course students will learn to design for digitally networked infrastructures such as the Internet, and the various protocols and frameworks that belong to this ever-expanding realm. Topics will include networking basics, Internet cultures and...
This course will explore a variety of approaches to material simulation and coded design processes. Topics covered will include advanced rendering, rapid digital iteration, and the translating of digital form to physical artefact. Students will look ...
In this course students will conceive, shoot, edit, and remix video-based projects. Students will learn video editing techniques, shooting video using DSLR cameras, elementary lighting, codecs, compositing, cinematography, and working with audio alon...
Students are introduced to the histories and technical development of Virtual Reality both as a field of inquiry and as a creative platform for novel and engaging multimedia experiences. Topics include examples of VR from a variety of fields such as ...
Introduction to electronics, circuit design, and programming as design tools for creative electronic solutions. This course is for students wishing to explore physical computing and interaction design (including IoT). Thinking beyond the mouse/keyboa...
This course focuses on working with simple algorithms to generate visuals, as well as compositing different media, such as photography. Inspired by real world phenomena, this course uses parameterised design and generative modelling to produce creati...
Photography is explored as both a creative process and a design research tool. Students engage in both photographic practice and theoretical exploration, articulating their response to the photographic medium and developing their theoretical tool kit...
This course introduces a variety of design research methods and discusses how, when and where these approaches may be utilised in the design process. Topics for discussion and research will include social and cultural bias, human behaviour, and the r...
Students will investigate processes and strategies involved in the production of time-based media, including audio recording, editing and manipulation techniques. Revolving around the topic of audio-visual space, course projects will allow students t...
This course focuses on the interpretation and presentation of data. Datasets are combined with programming and scripting tools to provide context to our digitized information systems and databases. Students will work with data sources from science, t...
Creative Coding III builds on the content taught in Creative Coding I and II and extends the use of procedural and parameterised design strategies and AI tools. Students will be taught advanced computer graphics and data mapping techniques in order t...
Photography is explored to an advanced level as a creative process and design research tool. Building on previous technical and creative skills, students engage with multiple photographic genres and practices. An ongoing technical tool kit and theore...
Blockchains and Web3
MDDN346
'Blockchains and Web3' is a 6-week intensive course covering topics surrounding Blockchain technologies such as Smart Contracts, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAO). The course focuses on understanding design par...
Under expert guidance, students will develop their own project briefs that address complex media design challenges. Student projects will showcase their individual aptitudes and interests while producing industry-standard works for their portfolios. ...
Narrative Design / Hoahoa ā-Paki
COMD411
Narrative is an important element in design. Design can tell stories, communicate information, and create meaning. This course looks at a range of tools and techniques for creatively constructing and deploying narratives in various contexts, includin...
This course explores the theory and practice of fashion history, culture and design. Students undertake analysis and critique of fashion paradigms through an interdisciplinary approach and consider the significance of fashion for people and societies...
Affective Interaction Design
IXXN411
The course investigates how hyper-personalised designs can affect emotional responses in people. In-depth research and design experiments will be carried out through theoretical and applied methods and presented by students through weekly seminars. S...
This course engages with Māori creativity and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) in the production of both visual and material cultural design that honours our place and past in Aotearoa New Zealand. Guided by traditional Māori protocols and knowledg...
Creative Digital Manufacturing
INDN441
In this course students undertake industrial design projects researching new and emerging digital technologies as a catalyst for the creation of innovative future products, systems and services. Students develop design proposals considering the effec...
This course introduces students to a diverse range of research practices that foster criticality, creativity and a deepening of our connection to whanaungatanga associated with a range of contemporary issues and emerging technologies. An emphasis wil...
Advanced Theory
SIDN472
A critical examination of theoretical and creative work at the intersections of design, culture, history, politics and ethics. Students will read and analyse a range of texts relevant to contemporary multi-disciplinary design research practice. Speci...
This seminar-based course introduces postgraduate students to current qualitative methods in design research. It explores a range of creative and empirical and culturally appropriate methods, concentrating on the formulation of research questions, th...
Creative Project
DSDN590
FILM/DSDN/NZSM/THEA 590 is a creative research project, which is the capstone of the MFA (Creative Practice) degree. The project topic and approach is developed by the student under the guidance of an academic staff member in the relevant area.
Design Research Portfolio
DSDN592
Master of Design Research Portfolio.
This is a project-based 90-point thesis that exists within the 180-point MDI degree programme. With approval of academic staff, and in consultation with a Design Research Innovation Lab (DRIL) supervisor, students undertake a major design investigati...
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