7–10Visual and Motion Design 7–10 Syllabus (2025)
The new Visual and Motion Design 7–10 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2028 and will replace the Visual Design 7–10 Syllabus (2004).
2026 and 2027 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2028 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Life Skills
- VMDLS-DSP-01
demonstrates safe design practices
- VMDLS-DSP-02
experiments and makes choices when designing or making design artworks
- VMDLS-DSP-03
expresses self or communicates ideas in design artworks
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
Content in Design practice includes reference to visual design and motion design forms. Teachers select from graphic and typographic design, 3D design and the built environment, animation and kinetic design or emerging design forms.
LoadingEngage with designers, design artworks, forms or practices to inspire own design artworks
Experiment with a range of design materials, techniques or processes
Explore how design artworks are created for specific purposes, audiences or user needs
Explore how to make design artworks that are accessible
Recognise how design artworks can be a tool for self-expression
Use a range of multisensory tools to generate ideas
Select graphic and typographic design, 3D design and the built environment, animation and kinetic design or emerging design forms to communicate ideas
Select and use design elements
Experiment with visual storytelling techniques
Explore safe use of design software applications and techniques
Identify and demonstrate strategies to work respectfully with others
Use safe design practices and manual handling techniques
Engage individually or collaboratively with design materials, techniques or processes to create design artworks
Communicate personal preferences for design materials, techniques or processes
Communicate ideas or choices about their design artworks in a Design diary
Follow a sequence to develop design artworks
Select from subject-specific terminology to communicate about their design practice
Create oral, written or multimodal texts to demonstrate understanding of design
Interact respectfully and ethically with other people’s design artworks, including gaining consent to interact with, share or use aspects of a design artwork
Recognise Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) relating to design works
Explore ethical or sustainable design practices, including selecting sustainable materials and ways to reduce waste
Collaboratively or independently plan, select or arrange design artworks for an audience
Demonstrate an awareness of safety when attending exhibitions in the community or virtually