Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 90-credit Diploma in Art and Design (QCF)
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- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits90
- Guided learning540 hours
- Units in this qualification134
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These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
3D AnimationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theory and applications of 3D
- Devise a 3D animation
- Create a 3D animation following industry practice.
3D Computer ModellingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Set up, manage and navigate a computer model environmen
- Create 3D objects and surfaces
- Use lighting and rendering
- Understand how to develop computer models.
3D Design Media, Techniques and TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the characteristics and properties of 3D materials
- Investigate 3D media, techniques and technology
- Use 3D media, techniques and technology safely
- Understand use of 3D media, techniques and technology
3D Sculptural TextilesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the physical properties and characteristics of materials
- Develop design ideas into 3D outcomes using techniques and construction processes
- Demonstrate safe practice when using 3D techniques and processes
- Understand 3D sculptural textiles processes
Accessory ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create design ideas for accessories
- Use equipment and machinery for the development of accessory production
- Select and use appropriate production processes to assemble and present an accessory
- Plan and complete an ongoing evaluation
Application, Exploration and Realisation in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out personal research from contextual sources
- Generate solutions to a negotiated brief
- Select and experiment safely with specialist media, materials and techniques
- Understand factors when reviewing work and developing outcomes
- Realise and present final outcomes to meet a brief
Art and Design Specialist Contextual InvestigationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how the work of historical and contemporary specialist practitioners can influence current practice
- Understand the context in which specialist work was produced
- Understand the function, purpose and qualities of creative specialist work
- Evaluate, structure and present findings
Audio Production Processes and TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand characteristics of different acoustic environments in relation to recording sound
- Understand conventions in production and post-production
- Capture and record sound from different sources
- Mix and edit recorded sound
Collaborative Working in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the nature of collabourative working
- Plan and manage a collabourative brief
- Participate in a collabourative brief
- Understand collabourative working methods
Commercial Photographic Laboratory OperationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Set up and maintain processing and printing equipment
- Process exposed film and printed material using non-continuous equipment
- Print photographic images using non-continuous equipment
Communication Through Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how media, materials and processes are used in others’ work to convey ideas and meaning
- Develop visual language
- Know how art and design is used to communicate ideas and meaning
- Communicate by using the language of art and design
Community ArtReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Write a proposal for a community arts project
- Develop ideas for a community art project
- Produce developmental work that leads to a final outcome
- Present a community arts project.
Computer Applications in FashionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use CAD to aid the design and visualisation of fashion and clothing
- Use CAD for the purposes of pattern manipulation and garment and accessory construction
- Understand the potential effects of current technological developments on the fashion industry.
Computer Game EnginesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purposes of game engines
- Understand the functions of components of game engines
- Use a 2D game engine following industry practice
- Use a 3D game engine following industry practice
Computer Game Story DevelopmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the elements of storytelling for games
- Create story for a game following industry practice
- Create game dialogue following industry practice
Computers in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential of digital media in contemporary art and design practice
- Select materials for digital experimentation
- Produce work using digital art and design techniques
Contextual Influences in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about key developments and influences in art, craft and design
- Research and record historical, contemporary and contextual information
- Review, produce and present outcomes from contextual sources
Darkroom ApplicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create photographic negatives in the darkroom
- Know about the services provided by colour labouratories
- Create photographic prints in the darkroom
- Review own photographic darkroom production work
Darkroom PracticeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out black and white negative processing in the darkroom
- Produce black and white prints in the darkroom
- Present own photographic darkroom production work
Design Methods in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design development process
- Use the design development process in own work
- Communicate ideas and intentions clearly
- Work safely with others
Design Principles in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how form relates to function in own work
- Use appropriatematerials in own work
- Understand cross-cultural influences on own work
- Understand design responsibilities
Design for AdvertisingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand issues relevant to design for advertising
- Originate and develop ideas in response to advertising briefs
- Present design solutions
Design for Moving PartsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how mechanisms transmit motion to moving parts
- Design models that use moving parts to a set brief
- Produce models that use moving parts to a set brief.
Developing Business Models for the Art and Design SectorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different business models in the art and design sector
- Understand the importance of planning in an art and design business
- Produce business planning documents
- Know about the legal requirements of running a business
Developing Costume Design SkillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand costume requirements of a text
- Apply research skills to develop costume design ideas
- Understand the practical demands of costume design
- Communicate costume design ideas
Developing and Realising Design Craft IdeasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out research on design crafts to inform idea development
- Produce design craft solutions
- Understand working methods and design crafts outcomes
Developing and Realising Fine Art IdeasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select ideas and subjects from initial research
- Create developmental work in fine art
- Understand ideas and working practices.
Digital Image Capture and EditingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Capture digital imagery
- Process digital images
- Know about legal requirements and ethical issues
Digital Story TellingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a digital story
- Generate audio and visual material
- Manipulate and develop audio and visual material
- Produce a finished digital story
Digital Video Production for Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of digital video technology in interactive media
- Devise a digital video sequence for use in an interactive media product
- Shoot and source digital video assets for use in an interactive media product
- Create a digital video sequence for use in an interactive media product following industry practice
Drawing Concept Art for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of concept art for computer games
- Explore the potential of drawing media
- Draw anatomy, environment and object concept art for computer games
- Present concept artwork for computer games
Drawing from ObservationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use observation techniques
- Use drawing techniques and media
- Produce finished work based on observational drawing
- Understand the use of observational drawing
Educating Through Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how art and design can be used for education
- Know about learning styles and their application
- Develop a teaching resource using art and design
Embroidered TextilesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research ideas as a source for development
- Produce a body of samples using embroidery textile materials, techniques and processes.
- Understand embroidered textiles processes
Experimental Imagery in PhotographyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore and test a range of techniques, materials, processes and media
- Create images through selecting techniques, materials and processes to meet intentions
- Understand experimental imagery in photography
- Evaluate and refine developmental work to produce outcomes
Exploring Non-resistant MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate non-resistant materials safely
- Select and prepare non-resistant materials to meet specified requirements
- Know about the properties and working characteristics of non-resistant materials
Exploring Resistant MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate resistant materials and their related techniques safely
- Select and prepare resistant materials to meet specified requirements
- Know about the properties and working characteristics of resistant materials
Exploring Specialist Ceramic TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the properties and working characteristics of ceramic materials
- Investigate properties and working characteristics of ceramic materials safely
- Prepare, form, finish and store ceramic materials to meet specified requirements.
Exploring Specialist Glass TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the properties and characteristics of glass and associated materials
- Select and prepare glass and associated materials to meet specified requirements
- Experiment with specialist glass techniques
- Present explorations in specialist glass techniques
Exploring Specialist Metal and Jewellery TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the properties and characteristics of materials for metalwork and jewellery making
- Select and prepare materials for metalwork and jewellery making to meet specified requirements
- Experiment with specialist techniques in metalworking and jewellery making
- Present explorations in metalworking and jewellery specialist techniques
Exploring Specialist TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of the specialist field
- Investigate specialist materials and techniques
- Record investigations about the properties of specialist materials and techniques.
Exploring Specialist Textile TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about specialist areas of textile design
- Experiment with specialist textile techniques
- Create a body of textile work using specialist textile techniques
Extending Non-resistant MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create designs for artefacts in non-resistant materials in response to set briefs
- Use non-resistant materials
- Produce finished artefacts that meet design briefs
- Understand the process and finished products
Extending Resistant MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create designs for artefacts in resistant materials in response to set briefs
- Select and prepare resistant materials
- Produce finished artefacts that meet design briefs
- Understand the process and finished products
Extending Specialist Ceramic TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create designs for ceramic artefacts in response to a brief
- Be able use ceramic materials to meet design requirements
- Produce finished ceramic works that meet design briefs
- Understand the process and finished products
Extending Specialist Glass TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop specialist design ideas in response to a brief
- Select and prepare specialist glass materials to meet design intentions
- Produce finished specialist work to specific design intentions
- Understand the specialist process and the finished product in relation to the design brief.
Extending Specialist Metal and Jewellery TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create designs in specialist metalworking and jewellery materials in response to set briefs
- Use specialist metalworking and jewellery materials and techniques
- Produce finished work to specific design intentions
- Understand the process and finished products
Extending Specialist TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Generate ideas in response to a theme in a specialist field
- Use specialist techniques
- Produce finished outcomes using specialist techniques
- Understand work produced with specialist technique
Extending Specialist Textile TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to a design brief
- Produce textile ideas in response to a design brief
- Produce a final outcome
Fabric ManipulationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the properties and characteristics of fabrics
- Produce a body of samples using manipulation techniques and processes
- Evaluate work
Factual Writing in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the qualities and characteristics of factual communication in art and design
- Originate factual copy
- Present factual copy and relevant imagery for an identified purpose
- Understand own work.
Fashion BuyingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the roles and responsibilities of a fashion buyer.
- Interpret trends and predictions within the fashion market
- Understand range planning
Fashion MarketingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit introduces learners to fashion marketing, covering its nature, scale, and environment. You'll analyse factors influencing the fashion marketing environment and present relevant marketing information in response to briefs.
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the nature and scale of fashion marketing, including its purpose and scope
- Understand the fashion marketing environment, including the factors that influence it
- Know about the scale of the fashion industry, including its size and structure
- Present fashion marketing information to a brief, using appropriate methods and techniques
Fashion Media, Techniques and TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate fashion making processes
- Use fashion media, techniques and technology safely
- Understand the properties of fashion materials and explore their potential
- Produce a finished product
Fashion Presentation TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop skills in fashion presentation
- Understand how fashion and style can be communicated
- Know about developments in the presentation of fashion ideas
- Communicate design ideas to suit specific markets
Fashion PromotionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about fashion promotion requirements
- Understand how promotional strategies target different markets
- Create a promotional campaign
Fashion StylingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the roles and responsibilities of a fashion stylist.
- Demonstrate the principles of fashion styling for an individual client
- Apply the principles of fashion styling to consumer groups
- Produce fashion styling outcomes.
Fashion VisualisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research fashion visualisation styles and techniques
- Use media, materials, techniques and processes.
- Produce fashion ideas.
- Communicate fashion ideas using a personal style to a given brief.
Fashion in RetailReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the fashion retail business
- Know about the roles and responsibilities of employees within the fashion retail environment
- Understand key areas of fashion retail shops
Feltmaking and FeltingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Experiment with feltmaking and felting processes.
- Use feltmaking and felting techniques and processes to produce outcomes
- Understand feltmaking and felting work
Film and Video Editing TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development and principles of editing
- Prepare moving image material for editing
- Edit moving image material
Fine Art PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research ideas and subject matter in fine art work
- Know about the influence of external factors on others’ fine art work
- Understand external influences in relation to own fine art work
- Evaluate and present research findings
Freelance Work in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the practical resources needed for freelancing
- Understand the need for networking and updating skills
- Develop a personal freelance portfolio
- Know the health and safety issues and requirements for working in a freelance capacity.
Fundraising for Art and Design WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand sources of funding for art and design work
- Know about information relating to fundraising for art and design work
- Produce a fund raising application
Garment ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Operate equipment and machinery safely for the development of garment production
- Evaluate work during the production process
- Produce and assemble garments
Generating Fine Art IdeasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore subjects and concepts on a specific theme
- Gather research material for fine art ideas
- Experiment with methods and materials to generate ideas
- Develop and present ideas for development of fine art work
Graphic Image MakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about graphic image making
- Develop ideas for graphic image making
- Use media safely to produce graphic image outcomes
- Present own design outcomes against a given theme or assignment brief
Graphics Media, Techniques and TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about graphic media, techniques and technology
- Use graphic media, techniques and technology within own design work
- Present design outcomes using graphic media, techniques and technology
Graphics for 3D ApplicationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the construction of graphics for 3D application
- Explore how surface graphics can be applied to 3D applications
- Understand the practical constraints of graphics for 3D application
- Present own graphic design work for 3D application
Hair Styling and Dressing for PerformersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors that affect hairstyle design
- Understand the hairstyle requirements for a performance
- Create design ideas for hairstyles
- Style hair for performers
Hair Styling and Dressing for PerformersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the factors that affect hairstyle design
- Know the hairstyle requirements for a performance.
- Create design ideas for hairstyles.
- Style hair for performers
Human-computer Interfaces for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand human-computer interfaces for games
- Understand methods of control and forms of feedback in games
- Prototype an interface for a game using HCI techniques
Human-scale DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research a brief for human-scale design
- Know about ergonomic and anthropometrical principles in meeting the functional criteria of design briefs
- Plan, design and make creative models and prototypes for human-scale products
- Understand working methods, design development and effectiveness of final human-scale design outcomes.
Human-scale WorkingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the properties of materials, techniques and processes for human-scale design
- Investigate ergonomic factors in human-scale artefacts
- Develop and communicate ideas using 3D drawing systems
- Record, evaluate and present outcomes of investigation.
Ideas and Concepts in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how ideas and concepts inform art and design work
- Generate ideas
- Generate and refine ideas in response to given briefs
- Communicate and present ideas and outcomes to different audiences
Image Manipulation Using Computer ApplicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how image manipulation techniques are used in the work of others
- Digitise source materials
- Originate work using image manipulation hardware and software
- Present own design outcomes
Information GraphicsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate information graphics briefs
- Develop ideas towards information graphics outcomes
- Present final designs for information graphics applications
Interactive Media DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of interactive media design
- Understand legal and ethical constraints applicable to the interactive media industry
- Apply interactive media design following industry practice
Introduction to Music TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Connect and set up music technology equipment
- Produce a virtual performance of a given piece of notated music
- Produce a creative arrangement of an existing piece of music
- Design and create a piece of original music using available resources
Knitted TextilesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create ideas for knitted products
- Use knitting techniques to produce samples
- Understand development of own work
Large Scale DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a brief for a large-scale design project
- Develop design ideas for a large-scale design project
- Produce design ideas for a large-scale design project
- Review working methods used to realise outcomes for a large-scale design project
Large-scale WorkingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the characteristics of the natural and built environments
- Modify and manipulate spaces to meet design intentions
- Generate and develop ideas for environmental spaces
- Understand ideas for environmental spaces.
Lens-based Image MakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about lens-based image making
- Develop ideas using lens-based technologies
- Produce final outcomes for a set brief
- Review own lens-based outcomes
Location PhotographyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the characteristics of location photography
- Use photographic technology, techniques and media that are used to make photographs on location
- Make photographs on location
- Understand location photography
Make-up Application Skills and Creative Uses in PerformanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the factors that affect the application of make-up on a performer
- Identify the make-up requirements of a performance
- Create design ideas for make-up
- Create make-up designs on performers
Management of Art and Design ProjectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish stakeholders’ expectations for the project.
- Plan and communicate the project.
- Realise the project
Materials, Techniques and Processes in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore materials, techniques and processes safely
- Use materials, techniques and processes
- Understand the suitability of materials, techniques and processes
Mixed Media Image-MakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use experimental and non-traditional graphic media techniques and processes
- Use mixed media in producing graphic image outcomes
- Select appropriate reproduction techniques towards graphic image outcomes.
Multi-disciplinary Work in Fine ArtReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select ideas for own work by researching different disciplines
- Carry out practical experimentation across disciplines
- Propose different combinations of media, techniques and processes for own work
- Present a body of finished work
Narrative Image MakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate examples of narrative imagery
- Understand the processes used in illustrating narrative
- Develop ideas for narrative imagery in response to given themes
- Present narrative imagery
Painting in Fine ArtReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about painting techniques
- Investigate and explore media and materials
- Combine media, materials and techniques
- Present finished work
Papermaking and PrintmakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate paper making and printmaking media and materials
- Use papermaking and printmaking techniques
- Develop techniques, processes and ideas in papermaking and printmaking
Pattern Construction for Fashion and ClothingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct patterns from blocks
- Draft pattern adaptations for a variety of features
- Produce a full scale finished pattern from own design idea
Pattern Construction for Fashion and ClothingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct patterns from blocks
- Draft pattern adaptations for a variety of features
- Produce a full scale finished pattern from own design idea
Pattern Development for Fashion and ClothingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare blocks for pattern construction
- Make full-scale patterns
- Prepare a lay plan for production
- Understand own pattern development
Pattern Grading for Fashion and ClothingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of pattern grading
- Use tools, equipment and technology for pattern grading
- Grade blocks and pattern adaptations.
Personal and Professional Development in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Gather information and use it to select progression goals
- Prepare a portfolio of art, craft or design work
- Prepare written material to support progression
- Develop personal presentation and communication skills.
Photographic Media, Techniques and TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate photographic media, techniques and technology
- Use photographic media, techniques and technology safely
- Know about the characteristics and properties of photographic materials
- Understand own use of photographic media, techniques and technology
Photographic Studio TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about specialist studio photographic techniques
- Create specialist studio photographs
- Review own specialist studio photographs
Photography Location TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use equipment to produce location photography
- Use techniques to make location photography
- Develop ideas in response to location photography briefs
- Review own location photograph
Pre-production Techniques for the Creative Media IndustriesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for a specific media production
- Prepare pre-production documentation for a specific media production
- Apply pre-production planning for a specific media production
Presenting Fine Art WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research how others have used presentation techniques
- Experiment with presentation techniques
- Know about different presentation methods
- Use presentation techniques in own art work
Printed TextilesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about visual sources for printed textiles
- Develop ideas for printed textiles.
- Produce printed textiles samples
- Understand processes to create printed textiles
PrintmakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the historical and contemporary context in which printmaking processes have developed
- Use source material for development through printmaking processes
- Use materials, techniques and processes in printed image
- Develop finished printmaking work
Producing Video Installation WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential of video in an exhibition space as an art form
- Originate and develop an idea for a video installation in a specific location
- Produce a video for an installation in a specific location
- Set up the installation.
Product DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a product design brief
- Communicate product design ideas and concepts
- Develop product design proposals
- Realise outcomes to a design brief
Production Techniques for Fashion and ClothingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the properties and characteristics of fabrics and fibres
- Use equipment and machinery for sample production.
- Demonstrate the safe operation of equipment and machinery
- Plan and use production processes to assemble a finished garment
Professional Practice in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation and professional constraints related to art, craft and design
- Observe health and safety requirements
- Apply professional practice in an art and design brief
Promoting Art and Design WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about promotingart and design work
- Plan a promotional campaign
- Produce promotional material
- Understand art and design promotion
Public artReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the development of historical and contemporary practice in public art
- Generate ideas for a site-specific piece
- Understand professional practices associated with public art commissions.
- Understand the issues that influence the development of a public art piece
Repeat PatternReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use source materials to inform design ideas
- Investigate the principles of repeat pattern
- Develop ideas using repeat pattern
- Understand own repeat pattern work
SculptureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the physical properties and characteristics of sculptural materials
- Use sculptural techniques
- Use sculptural processes through creating and developing own designs
- Present a body of work to meet the requirements of a sculpture brief.
Setting up an Art and Design StudioReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the aims of an art and design studio based business
- Understand art and design studio resource needs
- Create a business proposal for an art and design studio
- Collabourate in an art and design studio enterprise
Single Camera TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of single camera production
- Plan a single camera production
- Apply single camera techniques in a production.
Small-scale DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of a small-scale design project
- Develop and propose design ideas
- Realise small scale design outcomes
Small-scale WorkingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the properties and characteristics of materials for small scale working and production
- Use small scale working and production technology, equipment and processes safely
- Research and develop ideas for small scale working and production
- Record and present the results of investigations and experimental work
Sound for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of sound and music in games
- Understand methods and principles of sound design and production
- Create sound assets for a computer game following industry practice
- Apply sound assets to a computer game following industry practice
Sound in Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of sound in interactive media products
- Devise sound assets for an interactive media product
- Create sound assets for an interactive media product following industry practice
- Apply sound assets to an interactive media product following industry practice
Soundtrack Production for the Moving ImageReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationships between sound and picture in moving image productions
- Record audio for moving image
- Devise a soundtrack for a moving image project
- Produce a soundtrack for a moving image project
Specialist Illustration Using Computer ApplicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research the use of digital illustration with reference to the work of others
- Use digital illustration packages to produce illustrative graphics
- Understand own digital illustration work.
Specialist Location PhotographyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types of specialist location photography
- Create specialist location photograph
- Review own specialist location photographs
Specialist Studio PhotographyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a visual solution within the context of a client-led brief
- Use the tools of visual language within the context of a client-led brief
- Be able make studio sets
- Produce studio photography in a chosen specialist field.
Starting a Small Business in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Present the initial business idea using relevant criteria
- Understand the skills and development needed to run the business successfully
- Know the legal and financial aspects that will affect the start up of the business
- Produce an outline business start up proposal.
Stop Motion Animation ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the techniques and development of stop motion animation
- Devise a stop motion animation with soundtrack
- Produce a stop motion animation with soundtrack
- Evaluate audience responses to own stop motion animation work
Studio PhotographyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of studio photography
- Know about studio photographic media, techniques and technology
- Make photographs in the studio
- Review own studio photography
Surface PatternReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about visual sources for surface pattern
- Explore and develop ideas for surface pattern
- Understand surface pattern ideas and processes
- Produce surface pattern outcomes
Textile InstallationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design textile installations for specific environments
- Make a textile installation for a specific environment
- Present textile installation work.
Typefaces and Letter FormsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand historical and contemporary developments of typefaces and letter forms
- Know how typeface styles and letter forms communicate a message
- Know correct terminology for typefaces and letter forms
- Create design work that explores typefaces and letter forms
Typographic and Layout DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand typographic and layout conventions used in the work of others
- Know terminology used within typographic and layout design
- Use computers and other media to develop typographic and layout designs
- Evaluate own typographic and layout design outcomes
Understanding Video TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of video technology
- Use video recording production technology
- Use video post-production technology.
Visual Recording in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify sources for visual recording
- Record visually
- Understand visual recording in others’ work
- Understand own visual recording
- Develop visual recording to produce outcomes
Website DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about website design technologies
- Understand website design issues
- Produce interactive web pages to a given theme or assignment brief
- Review own website work
Words and Images in Graphic DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how words and images are used in the work of others
- Understand the relationship of words and images when developing ideas
- Produce final outcomes that explore the potential of words and images
Woven TextilesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop creative ideas for woven textiles
- Weave sample pieces
- Produce final outcomes
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
3D Animation3D Computer Modelling3D Design Media, Techniques and Technology3D Sculptural TextilesAccessory ProductionApplication, Exploration and Realisation in Art and DesignArt and Design Specialist Contextual InvestigationAudio Production Processes and Techniques
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 90-credit Diploma in Art and Design (QCF)
- Analyse captured digital images and provide feedback
- Create panoramic video assets for games and interactive media projects
- Form or decorate ceramic craftworks by removal of material
- Input into Pre-Production Planning
- Lithograph or transfer print ceramic items in craft
- Originate and develop ideas for craft practice
- Research ideas for craft practice
- Select and grade processed ceramic items
Where this can lead
Marketing Assistant (Fashion)
Your journey starts here, but where it takes you is entirely up to your ambition and hard work. We're excited to see you grow and become a key player in the fashion marketing world.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
Analyse captured digital images and provide feedbackCreate panoramic video assets for games and interactive media projectsForm or decorate ceramic craftworks by removal of materialInput into Pre-Production PlanningLithograph or transfer print ceramic items in craftOriginate and develop ideas for craft practiceResearch ideas for craft practiceSelect and grade processed ceramic itemsSet up a small business
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 90-credit Diploma in Art and Design (QCF)
132 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- 3D Animation
- 3D Computer Modelling
- 3D Design Media, Techniques and Technology
- 3D Sculptural Textiles
- Accessory Production
- Application, Exploration and Realisation in Art and Design
and 126 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.