Showing 114 courses for the subject Design Innovation
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.
Game Design I/ Hoahoa ā-Kēmu I
DSDN102
This course will introduce students to game design principles, the theory of game design, game history and practical game development methods. Fundamental game design concepts, such as mechanics and loops, will be explored and analysed in order to en...
This course introduces students to the role of visual and written communication in contemporary design practice. Students will be exposed to academic referencing, paragraph structure and paraphrasing, graphic representation and fabrication techniques...
This course engages 3D printing technologies to visualise and create 3D forms. Computer based studios explore leading edge 3D printing technologies and address the distinctive features of a 3D printing revolution.
Design Composition
DSDN111
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.
In this course students analyse tangible and intangible interactions between people and things. Students are introduced to design concepts, vocabularies, basic tools, and practices of interaction design with an explicit focus on contextual and/or con...
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 design mediums including natural and synthetic materials. Students will learn and apply various manual and digital techniques through design experiments for development of expressive 3D objects for multi...
This course introduces students to the concepts and fundamentals of interactive visual perception through creative coding for interactive interfaces. Students will develop their own visual, animated, multimedia and interactive design solutions to add...
This course is an introduction to the photographic design principles, theories and methodologies. Through the completion of three projects, students will acquire a fundamental understanding of digital photography techniques.
This course explores the basics of graphic design through a hands-on visual identity project. Students will learn about logos, typography, colour palettes, style guides, and more. It provides a good introduction to Communication Design skills. Studen...
Drawing I / Pikitia I
DSDN152
This course develops the technical skills of drawing and the understanding of human anatomy, kinesiology, perspective, motion, light, and proportion. This course will encourage students to nurture their personal practice and develop their creative vo...
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 history from a place-based perspective. Analytical, critical and discursive skills, that demonstrate visual, oral and writ...
Great visual storytellers challenge our notions of self and truth and become part of our history and cultural identities. This course enables the dissemination of Mātauranga Māori and other cultural knowledge via storytelling. Students will become cr...
This course introduces design thinking and its interdisciplinary application in addressing complex sustainability challenges. Students will use design thinking to interpret the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they apply t...
This course introduces design thinking and its interdisciplinary application in addressing interlinked and complex sustainability challenges. With broad-reaching application across disciplines, it includes the application of design thinking in addres...
Special Topic / Kaupapa Motuhake
DSDN184
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Special Topic / Kaupapa Motuhake
DSDN185
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This course explores 3D design principles unique to creating animation and visual effects media, and techniques of 3D design. Students will create a series of digital artefacts for the screen. Tutorials cover development methods specific to digital c...
Typography I / Tātai Momotuhi I
COMD201
This course is about working with type. Students will learn the anatomy, rules and techniques of typography, the history of type development and how this informs the use of type in contemporary communication. They will become familiar with both histo...
In this intermediate course students will learn the principles of fashion design by trialling various pattern design and manufacturing techniques in the development of wearable forms. Historical and cultural theories related to fashion will be discus...
Game Design I / Hoahoa ā-Kēmu I
GAME201
Students are introduced to indie games, arcade games and early home console experiences as a pathway to understanding the fundamental requirements of game design. This course builds upon game mechanics and core loops, utilising these concepts to crea...
In this course students will learn about the process of user experience (UX) design, and common research and design techniques, such as: observation, interviews, prototyping and user testing. Students will also become skilled at using industry-standa...
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 intermediate course will extend on the principles of fashion design covered in FADN 201 with an emphasis on digital tools. Historical and cultural theories related to fashion will be discussed, including Mātauranga Māori (framed in Transition De...
This course will allow students to explore and develop art and animation assets for game design with a focus on optimisation and working within the limitations that real time hardware can often impose. Students will learn the history of developing re...
This course uses game jams and hackathons as a learning environment where students work with commercial developers to learn how to develop new and innovative game prototypes. Design students will be collaborating with students from the Graphics and G...
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 ...
This course offers an introduction to animated storytelling through the art of character animation. We survey a range of animated films in various genres and styles, from large scale studio features to experimental auteur films. In response students ...
Drawing II / Tuhi Pikitia II
COMD211
This course will allow students to practice traditional and contemporary approaches to both observational and imaginative drawing. In addition to building on skills and techniques developed in DSDN 152 Drawing I, students will be encouraged to nurtur...
Industrial designers communicate primarily through the physical aesthetic qualities of the products they create. In this founding industrial design course students will explore and expand their three dimensional visual vocabulary to empower them to p...
Students will learn how designs can affect our thinking, our emotions and our actions. The course will introduce students to basic psychology principles. Through the practice of designing students will learn how to use psychology principles and metho...
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...
This course investigates how industrially designed products respond to the people and environment in which they exist. This four dimensional quality of products offers significant opportunity for design experimentation and expression. Through the use...
This course introduces digital 2D and frame-by-frame techniques in modern animation practice. Historical and contemporary examples will be studied including classic feature films, independent shorts, music videos, and video games. Students will apply...
In this course students explore and implement Web design tools and techniques. An emphasis is placed on creative approaches to front-end development, design and scripting techniques.
An introduction to the key concepts, theories and methodologies relevant to sustainable design and their application to a cross-disciplinary design practice. Students will develop awareness of sustainability from an ecological perspective and, within...
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 ...
The course explores techniques in stop-motion puppet construction, onset lighting, and animation. Students will build a fully articulated puppet and light and animate it using a combination of established industry practices such as digital and in-cam...
Illustration / Pikitia Whakaari
COMD231
In this course students will learn to illustrate and use illustration thoughtfully and effectively in a range of media. Historical and contemporary approaches will be studied from various perspectives: aesthetic, social, and commercial. Students will...
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...
Design Ethnography I introduces students to the ways in which design shapes - and is shaped by - cultural beliefs, values and norms. Students will critically explore different worldviews and their potential to support greater social justice through d...
This course focuses on the structure and methods of effective storytelling, as expressed visually. Readings provide a broad survey of stories that employ visual narratives in innovative or instructive ways. Techniques are drawn from comics, books, gr...
This course stimulates students to explore and experiment with a range of design-focused mediums, materials and techniques. In addition to material and technical proficiency students will gain competence in creating contextual design interventions an...
Using generative approaches to textile design informed by broad cultural contexts and/or emerging technologies, students taking this course will explore the systemised creation of textiles. Students will be exposed to a range of software, manufacturi...
Creative Coding and AI II
MDDN242
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...
In this introductory course, students will explore the potential of design to question, critique and provoke complex cultural, political, and ethical issues. Through research, writing, reading and discussion, students will identify and critically ass...
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 addresses the demand for well-designed visual presentation of data in the information age. The course is interdisciplinary, combining skills from graphic design, interaction design, and data science. Students practice information design s...
This course examines the dynamic complexity of the body as a site, mapping personal variation, mechanics of movement and anatomy as the inspiration for products. 3D scanning and colour 3D printing will be used to collect data and create a tailored pr...
This course introduces basic concepts of motion design and time-based media in communication and graphic environments. Topics covered include introductory motion principles, visual design for motion, storyboarding/sequential imagery, graphic animatio...
This course explores how technology and filmmaking have utilised visual effects as an integral storytelling tool since the earliest days of cinema. Students will explore various forms including the cinema of attractions, the phenomenon of the uncanny...
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...
Design in Transition
SIDN271
This course investigates emergent design methods and strategies that prioritise the use of design-led societal change. Students will gain an appreciation of the interconnectedness and interdependency of social, cultural, economic and political system...
Fictional Narratives – Storytelling for Design / Kōrero Pakiwaitara – Pakiwaitara Hei Hoahoa
ANFX272
This course explores the ideation and practical process of writing and visual development for animated media. Core principles such as structure, plot, character, world building and personal vision are explored alongside the way in which technology an...
Co-design is a fundamental practice used within Social Innovation. It enables the co-creation of new social conditions and norms in communities, cities, and corporate cultures. Co-Design seeks to increase creativity, equity, social justice, resilienc...
Across human history, fashion has played an important role in every aspect of culture: religious order, social status, occupational position and rank, personal freedom (or lack thereof) and rejection of the status quo. In this course students will an...
Independent study work undertaken on an approved course of study.
This course introduces students to a range of approaches for including business factors in their design process and outputs through a critical approach and with Te Tiriti o Waitangi perspectives in mind. The course includes research, literature revie...
Special Topic: Writing for Games
DSDN284
This course focuses on the craft of writing fiction and narrative design for interactive media, including video games, interactive fiction, board games, and VR. No previous experience with Game Design and/or Script/Writing is required. Students play ...
This course introduces concepts of motion and time-based media in communication and graphic environments. Topics covered may include cultural understandings of Time and Space, motion-design, moving type, animation, sequential imaging. Students apply ...
Advanced topics in animation will be explored in this course, particularly around newly emerging technologies and procedural processes. Students will have the opportunity to conduct research, informing their own path for exploration in producing medi...
In this course students will explore various design and production methods used in fashion design and wearable technology. Students will be encouraged to use digital manufacturing techniques as well as traditional and/or experimental elements incorpo...
In this course students will build on the knowledge gained in Game Design I to design within the expanded parameters of a 3D environment. Using games as a medium of exploration, including examples from the early transitional period of 2D to 3D gaming...
Using contemporary approaches to Augmented Reality (AR) and related paradigms such as 'Mixed Reality', students will create designs solutions that feature compact, mobile, and networked technology. Through theory and practice, students will consider ...
Students will build on the typographic principles learnt in COMD 201 Typography I and apply them to more ambitious projects. They will hone and refine their critical eye for typography and delve deeper into its anatomy, materiality, and complexities....
Students will use and explore the game engine as a design tool. Creating data visualisations and virtual exhibition spaces, students will engage with the game engine in ways both useful to game designers, animators, user experience architects and med...
In this course students will become adept at user experience (UX) design techniques, such as: case study analysis, user interface design, rapid visualisation and prototyping. Students will also become skilled at using the industry standard tools and ...
This course builds on Character Animation I and continues to examine animation through the art of character animation. Students survey a range of animated films in various genres and styles, focusing on contemporary animation. Students will design, b...
A cross-cultural design exploration of designed objects, spaces and sites, with special emphasis on understanding why and how they are uniquely formed by the technological, historical and cultural contexts that are part of, and the design inspiration...
This course challenges students to explore and engage with specific online publications that inspire them to design a product suitab<