International School of Colour + Design
The complementary materials kits and textbook that you receive in the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design. Everything you need to start your creative journey.
Gain an in-depth understanding of colour by physically mixing colour using gouache paint and relating the wonderful colours you create to the colour wheel.
Throughout the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design you will create a colour atlas that will house all your hand painted colour chips. It will visually demonstrate colour relationships and their tonal values. Tone effects our emotional response to colour.
A visual diary will be with you throughout the course and will document your design developments and ideas as you explore your new creative abilities. This page of a student’s visual diary illustrates the elements and principles of design.
This represents a design being developed from nature, in this case a leaf. The student has followed the basic order of design principles and applied a suitable colour palette. This would be a great fabric design used for swimwear or children’s fashion.
This is an example of a reduced chroma palet te where we see how mid orange changes when grey is added to it. This is what creates tone.
This is a monochromatic colour scheme displayed with examples of it in the real world. When we teach you about colour we always relate it to images.
In this example we see a student exploring their drawing techniques to develop an interesting design. Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design will teach you how to draw as a designer.
You do not need to know how to draw to join the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design. Your educator will give you all tips, tricks and insider information to create amazing drawings like these.
Design is always looking forward. In the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design you pick a period and explore it. It is fascinating to study a design period. This is a collage of the naughties!
All designers need a working understanding of design and colour history in order to use and adapt a past style for application to a contemporary design practice.
This design showcases a tertiary colour palet te that has been reduced and applied to a stylised frog design. This demonstrates the pleasuring nature of tertiary colour palettes.
This is an example of design development from a cheese grater. It shows the many ways in which designs can be developed: mirroring , overlapping a simple line drawing, repetition, line extension and cropping . These are great attention grabbing techniques employed by designers.
This is a great example of colour inversion overlayed a repeated design.
Texture is an element of design that is often neglected. Exploration of texture is employed throughout the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design.
Exposure to industry briefs happens throughout the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design. Zanny Maybury completed this design in response to the Designer Rugs brief and won the 2009 competition. Here she sits proudly with her design which was produced into a luxurious rug.
Colour psychology and colour symbolism is a fascinating area of the Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design. Both traditional and contemporary research is undertaken in this subject area.
Once a solid understanding of colour is learnt, you will look at things such as colour inversion. In some cases like this swimwear design it is desirable, however in some instances it is unwelcome. Understanding the behaviour of colour is key.
Nature and natural objects are a constant source of inspiration to students. Aesthetically pleasing designs can be created which adapt and capture the essence of natural objects using simplification and Stylisation
A second industry brief is with the Fred Hosking Group in which all Foundation Course – Certificate IV in Design students design a corporate Christmas card following an industry standard brief. Here is an example of a recent design.
This is an example of an aesthetically pleasing illustrative design using the design techniques of simplification and stylisation.
Within the foundation course students learn to create protoypes enabling the viewer to gain a thorough understanding of the design in a three dimensional way.