Overview
CRICOS Code: 058836K
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CRICOS Course Code: 058836K
Ignite your design thinking and problem-solving skills through an exploration of form, silhouette, material, and construction.
Master various techniques: hand-drawing, digital illustrations, and garment construction.
Blend traditional foundations with social and environmental insight to acquire essential knowledge in:
Note: you need to apply for the Bachelor of Design Arts. You will commence study in your chosen major during your second trimester of the course.
CRICOS Course Code: 058836K
Access a range of discipline-specific facilities, such as:
Explore different materials, patterns, and designs to effectively harness cutting-edge tools to craft and enhance your creative endeavours.
Acquire practical skills through hands-on experiences with industry-standard equipment, software, and technology.
ATAR scores are not used in the consideration of your application. Unscored VCE (or equivalent) is accepted for entry.
Students must be 18+ years of age at commencement of course.
Find out more about new exemptions for Year 12 applicants via VTAC
Students must be 18+ years of age at commencement of course.
Exploration Units
Discover design fundamentals via workshop-based study that focuses on expanding foundational understanding of design.
Workshop: Body (WRKB)
Workshop: Image (WRKI)
Workshop: Message (WRKM)
Workshop: Space (WRKS)
Visual Foundations (ACC111)
Elective: Brand Strategy (ELE001)
Elective: Design & Wellbeing (ELE002)
Contextual Units
Explore the impact of context (e.g., historical, trends, visual thinking, technology, culture) on designers' and artists' work and realisation of vision. Experiment in a collaborative learning environment to articulate and understand key influences on art and design.
Design, History & Culture (AXC111)
Social Trend Forecasting (AXC121)
Design, Issues & Impact (AXC231)
Global Design Culture (AXE241)
Professional Practice
Practising artists and designers provide important insights into contemporary practice.
Hear from a range of local and overseas professionals about what is occurring in the industry and how they are succeeding in their field. Engage in related personal reflection.
Business Principles (ACC241)
Professional Practice & Systems (BPC351)
Professional Placement (APE241)
Personal & Professional Practice (BPC361)
Professional Communication (BCC351)
Design Laboratories
Learn and practise knowledge and skills specific to your major in LCI Design Laboratories, the core of the Bachelor of Design Arts degree. Engage with the full spectrum of the design and artistic process in studio-based labs. Respond to an industry brief, work on a global project with a global brand, or generate ideas to solve contemporary issues. Progress through a series of lab themes (foundational, issues, global, and industry) beginning in trimester 2. Put it all together in your final lab: produce and showcase an advanced body of work that expresses your creative ethos.
LCI Melbourne is an Australian–Government accredited Institute Of Higher Education providing Australian Domestic students with access to FEE-HELP.
FEE-HELP is a loan scheme that assists eligible students to pay tuition fees.
Design Laboratory: Foundation (LABX101)
Design Technology (APX121)
Design Laboratory: Issues (LABX102)
Design Sub Major (ASX111)
Design Laboratory: Global (LABX203)
Design Laboratory: Industry (LABX204)
Design Laboratory: Capstone (LABX205)