Handbook

Graphic Design for the Built Environment explores a range of visual communication techniques with a focus on integrating graphic materials into buildings and the built environment. It covers the basics of typography, layout design and colour, techniques for printing (including those for incorporating images into a range of building materials), digital reproduction technologies, colour systems, diagram design and three-dimensional graphic representation. You will also learn concepts of corporate identity and marketing within the context of the public space and built environment.

You will undertake a range of activities including exercises in interdisciplinary project management and planning. This provides you with the opportunity to observe the delineation of responsibilities of other disciplines statement of duties which are applied to the major way-finding assignment.