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Years 9 & 10 VCD
Know & Do Menu.

Use this menu for knowledge and tasks relating to the concepts used in Target Learning Visual Communication Design
Intermediate Program from 2026.

theory
topics.

Learn about the language, skills and concepts that underpin the practices, processes and Visual language used by designers. Use these pages for reference, brushing up your skills and with your Learning Pages.

Information pages

Scroll down to find the information pages to help students learn all the concepts and terms for Years 9 & 10 Visual Communication Design.
A silver magnifying glass with a bright white starburst reflection over the lens, set against an orange background.

Aesthetics

Stylized illustration of a dark historic building with arches and towers in the foreground, and a modern METRO building in the background, set against a tan circular backdrop—an inspiring scene for exploring the Double Diamond Design Process VCD.

Australian Architecture

Simplified illustration of two adults, one pushing a baby stroller, on a blue circular background. One adult has a coffee cup symbol on their torso.

Audience & Users

A yellow lightbulb with rays shines above lines of text, all inside a blue circle, symbolizing creativity and innovative ideas within design constraints or meeting design criteria in writing or content creation.

Brief

White recycling symbol with arrows in the center of a green circle, a stack of round objects on the left, and torn paper pieces on the right, representing paper recycling.

Circular Design Practices

A graphic illustration of a thermometer showing 40 degrees, with a red temperature scale, set inside a circular orange background and framed by a black square.

Constraints

A circular graphic shows a man and woman standing in front of a green house with mountains in the background, overlaid on a gray bar chart.

Contexts

Five cartoon faces, three smiling and two frowning, are arranged in a circle with a sheet of paper featuring text in the center, all set against an orange background.

Design Critique, Collaboration & Annotations

A circular image shows three chairs: a white chalk sketch, a wooden chair, and a modern blue chair, all overlapping on a brown background, illustrating stages of chair design.

Design Ideas, Concepts and Solutions

A circular graphic illustrates the Double Diamond Design Process VCD, featuring a sailing ship, a checkered buoy, a small plane over water, and a red emergency vehicle in connected circles on a blue background.

Design Process

A red sailing ship with three masts sails toward a blue globe, following a dashed red line that echoes the Double Diamond Design Process VCD. The image is enclosed in a light gray circular border.

Discover

A circular icon with a red and white quartered design, inspired by the Double Diamond Design Process VCD, is centered on a background of blue and light blue checkerboard squares.

Define

A stylized illustration of three airplanes—blue, white, and red—stacked diagonally on a light gray circular background. The minimal outlines and overlapping planes subtly echo the iterative flow of the Double Diamond Design Process VCD.

Develop

A red delivery truck with a white airplane illustration on its side, set against a gray and blue background, evokes fast or air express delivery—reflecting the streamlined efficiency of the Double Diamond Design Process VCD.

Deliver

An orange circle with key design elements: a white lowercase letter a, a white vertical line, a white hexagon above the a, and a shaded 3D cube to the left of the line.

Design Elements

A green and teal shield shape features key design elements: a large white lowercase letter a, a white horizontal line above it, and a small blue and teal 3D cube at the top.

Design Principles

A dark gray circle features two curved lines made of blue dots—one bright, one light—resembling a stylized letter S. The striking design elements create a modern and dynamic visual effect.

Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception

A circular icon featuring a light blue sky with three white, fluffy clouds of varying sizes. The clouds are softly blurred, giving the image a calm and serene appearance.

Design Thinking

A circular icon with blue and green arrows pointing outward in eight different directions from the center, set against a light green background.

Divergent Thinking Strategies

A pink circle with six red arrows pointing inward toward the center, creating a star-like pattern where the arrowheads meet.

Convergent Thinking Strategies

A transparent gray geometric cube with intersecting diagonal lines is shown inside a circle. A bold red ellipse overlays the cube, tilted diagonally across the front face. The background is light gray.

Ellipses in 3D Drawing

A circle filled with four overlapping chevron arrows pointing right in purple, blue, teal, and green on a light yellow background. The arrows create a layered, geometric pattern.

Factors influence design

A circular graphic divided into four sections, each with white human figures and orange accents: figures interact with objects and environments, hold balls, enter a dome, and an orange cursor clicks—all on a gray background.

Fields of Design Practice

A white, rounded square object casting a shadow, centered on a blue circular background.

Principles of Good Design

A simple white silhouette of a person stands in front of a multi-colored target with concentric red, orange, and black circles.

Human Centred Design & Ethical Research

A bold black eye icon centered inside a white circle with a thick red border, the image reflects ideas and information in designs, suggesting themes of surveillance, observation, or heightened attention.

Ideas & Information

A simplified tree illustration with a brown trunk and three round green sections for foliage, outlined in red with editing nodes and handles, set against a light blue sky and green ground.

Image & File Types

Illustration of green plants with heart-shaped leaves above ground, their brown roots reaching into soil alive with oval shapes representing microbes—reflecting indigenous knowledge and culture in the design.

Indigenous knowledge

A logo featuring four overlapping colored circles with the large black letters C, T, M, and R in each circle, creating the acronym CTMRP. The circles are blue, pink, yellow, and gray.

IP & Copyright

A simple white cube on a yellow background, with a slanted green strip at the bottom right displaying 30º in bold text.

Isometric

Image

Layout & Composition

A circular illustration showing a perforated metal sheet partially covering a background of wood grain and blue ceramic tiles.

Materials

A cube with three visible sides, each showing a different drawing concept for VCD: tracing a figure, sketching a 3D box with a pencil, and illustrating perspective using manual and digital based methods.

Methods

Four overlapping water drops in blue, pink, yellow, and black, representing CMYK color model used in printing. The drops are semi-transparent and blend where they overlap, creating new colors.

Media

A green circle with a white, cube-like square in the center. A gray line runs horizontally through the middle, intersecting an orange dot in the center of the square.

One-Point Perspective

A circular diagram with a blue background shows a white unfolded 3D shape (net) with five connected octagons and one octagon attached perpendicularly. A semi-transparent triangle overlaps part of the net.

Packaging Net

A white cube is shown above a 45-degree set square on an orange circle background, illustrating an isometric or axonometric projection.

Planometric

A simple architectural drawing shows a square floor plan above two elevation views labeled South Elevation with a door and North Elevation as a plain square, over a light green background.

Plans & Elevations

An illustrated brown hand holding an open pamphlet with green and yellow sections, on a light pink circular background.
Presentation Formats
A large blue question mark inside a light blue circle, with a bright white glare partially covering the top right area of the image.

Purposes

A pencil sketches a shaded, three-dimensional cube, emphasizing light and shadow, on a gray circular background.

Rendering

Illustration of a person holding a sign with a yellow SUV and the ratio 1:10, indicating a scale model, against a light green circular background.

Scale

A hand holding a red pencil is poised to write on a sheet of lined paper. The image is shown in a circular frame and uses a simple, flat illustration style.

Techniques for Analysis of Design

A stylized icon of a person behind an open book with curved lines above the book, suggesting reading aloud or audiobooks, on a circular brown background.

The Pitch

A diagram showing three labeled boxes: TOP VIEW, FRONT VIEW, and SIDE VIEW, illustrating different perspectives of an object. The background is blue with a partially unfolded corner in the upper right.

Third Angle Orthogonal

A white cube is drawn on a green circle background, with black lines extending from the cube’s corners to two red dots at the top corners, illustrating two-point perspective.

Two-Point Perspective

A blue circle with two overlapping capital letter As in different fonts: one is white with ornate, decorative serifs, and the other is bold, black, and modern.

Type

A large black heart shape is centered on a glowing red and black gradient background, creating a dramatic and striking contrast.

Visual Language

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