Design orientation

Welcome to the School of Design

The following essential information relates to the commencement of the first year of your Bachelor of Design Innovation (BDI) degree.

Compulsory orientation

Your orientation will be held on Thursday 28 February from 10am–1pm starting in Lecture Theatres 1 and 2, Level 1, Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, Te Aro Campus, 139 Vivian Street, Wellington.

This is your official introduction to the School of Design, and will provide valuable information about the year ahead. It also provides an opportunity to meet and greet your lecturers and fellow students. You are expected to attend.

Courses

To check the courses that you are enrolled in visit myVictoria. For first time users of myVictoria your login information can be found in your Offer of Study.

Studio stream preferences

Your courses have two components; weekly lectures, and studios/tutorials. There may be more than one studio per week, so carefully check your timetable.

Studio stream signups will be available online after orientation and the registration process will be explained to you during orientation.

To sign up you need access to your student ID number.

Materials

These materials can be purchased from any reputable art/ craft store.
In Wellington we recommend Gordon Harris

DSDN 111- DESIGN PRINCIPLES / DSDN 101- DESIGN VISUALISATION

These materials will be required in the first week.

  1. Clutch pencil Staedtler SR788 plus free HB leads $8.99
  2. Leads or range of HB-6B/graphite pencils Creta Studio tin 6 soft grade $7.49
  3. Clutch pencil sharpener Faber 2mm 50/41 $-90c
  4. Black drawing pens (variable line weights, from fine through to 0.6 Sharpie or Staedtler pigment liner) Staedtler SR308SB6 4 plus 2 free SET 6 $17.99*
  5. Artist quality sketchbook i.e. Moleskine (A4) Hahnemuhle sketchbook H/C A4 64lf $16.99
  6. Steel ruler 300mm Expression metric/imp $3.99
  7. Craft knife Tajima LC510 Japanese ‘safe’ large 18mm snap type $3.99
  8. A4 cutting mat Expression green 2 sided $9.99 (or A3)

TOTAL inc GST $69.99 as pack

DSDN 152- FIGURE DRAWING

These materials are required

  1. Expression drawing board A2 (63.5cmx55.5cm) with clip/band $13.99
  2. Expression sketch pads A3 Gordon Harris 120gsm A3 60lf $9.99
  3. Charcoal sticks (not limited to) Expression pkts $5.99 range options
    i) PKT of 3 Jumbo Willow charcoal sticks (15-20mm thick) (13.5cm long)
    ii) 6 sticks (7-8mm)
    iii) 24 sticks (4.6mm thick) (13.5cm long) maybe just “selection of willow charcoal sticks will need box qty”
  4. Faber-Castell set 1221 pencils (2B-8B) no 8B in 1221 range. Creta Studio tin 6 soft grade $7.49 + Creta 8B $1.50
  5. Faber-Pitt pastel crayons: (Sepia,White) each $2.50
  6. Creta Color kneaded eraser (grey) $1.80
  7. Creta Color monolith eraser (small) $1.49
  8. Winsor and Newton drawing ink (black) (30mL) suggest Pebeo India ink 45ml ultra black perm $5.99
    i) 3 different sizes of ink pens dip nibs + holder, Creta nibs x3 + Koh I Noor holder $5.99

TOTAL inc GST $59.00 as pack

Adobe Creative Cloud Licence

We recommend all Architecture and Design students purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud licence. Sign up via: Adobe Creative Cloud

Students get a discounted rate. You need to supply your confirmation of study or a Student ID card to verify you are a student.

Computer recommendations

Operating system

Media Design courses in second-year and beyond are more focussed around using Mac computers.

First-year Design and all Architecture use PC computers running Windows 7 64-bit; new PC laptop computers should be purchased with this or later (64 bit versions recommended).

This really comes down to personal preference and what you’re used to, so go with whichever computer type and operating system you prefer. For Macs, Windows can also be installed to give you both options (do a web search for “Boot Camp” – and you’ll need to purchase a Windows licence).

Central processor (CPU), memory (RAM), and hard drive

Get as fast a processor and as much memory (8 GB or more), as you can afford – your laptop will stay usable for longer. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are recommended as they are faster compared to mechanical drives, but are more expensive for how much data they can store.

Get at least one external hard drive to back up to. If your files don’t exist in at least two places, they might as well not exist at all.

Graphics Card

If opting for a larger computer for better graphics/simulation/3D modelling, get one with a discrete or dedicated graphics card with its own separate memory (not an “on-board” or “integrated” one).

Backup

Regardless of whether you work on files on your own computer or on the Faculty’s network, it is absolutely essential to make your own backup copies of your work. External hard drives are the cheapest, easiest things to use for this. Cloud storage is great for synchronising files, but you should still make discrete, independent, backup copies of your files.

Faculty CAD/ Design computers

The Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation has its own network of CAD/ Design computers. These computers are dedicated to the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation students and Courses, and is generally called the FAD-Student environment.

Workshop safety equipment

During orientation you will receive modelling workshop safety equipment. This equipment includes a pair of safety glasses and earmuffs. There is no charge for these materials as it is included in your course fees.