Art, Craft and Design: Combined Titles is defined as a broad-based course promoting learning through various processes, tools, techniques, materials and resources to generate different kinds of evidence of working and artefact(s) product(s)/personal outcome(s).

Learners must explore, acquire and develop skills, knowledge and understanding through the application of traditional and or digital techniques and processes specific to two or more chosen specification titles.

The emphasis is on an increased breadth of approach commensurate in demand with the other titles.

Learners must explore practical and relevant critical and contextual sources such as the work of historical and contemporary practitioners and the different purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design as appropriate to their own work.

Learners must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and understanding through area(s) of study relevant to two or more chosen specification titles.

Learners are required to work in two or more specification titles from those listed below:

• Fine Art
• Graphic Communication
• Photography
• Textile Design
• Three-Dimensional Design
• Critical and Contextual Studies

Learners may choose one area of study and produce work appropriate to two or more specification titles such as Still Life in Fine Art and Photography.

Alternatively, learners may choose different area(s) of study such as Typography or Product Design from two or more specialisms and combine them in a complementary way.

Learners undertaking the Art, Craft and Design specification title should explore techniques relevant to the chosen area(s) of study as outlined for each chosen specification title.

Learners will be expected to demonstrate skills, as defined in the Art and Design Core Content section of this specification, in the context of their chosen areas of art, craft and design.
In addition, learners will be required to demonstrate skills relevant to two or more of their chosen specification titles in the following:

• develop their ideas through investigations informed by selecting and critically analysing sources
• apply an understanding of relevant art, craft and design practices in the creative and cultural industries to their work
• refine their art, craft and design ideas as work progresses through recording, researching, selecting, editing and presenting artefact(s)/product(s)/personal outcome(s)
• record their ideas, observations, insights and independent judgements, in ways that are appropriate to the Art, Craft and Design title, such as recording through drawing and creating images with mixed media
• use appropriate specialist vocabulary through either visual communication or written annotation, or both, appropriate to art, craft and design
• use visual language critically as appropriate to their own creative intentions and chosen titles and area(s) of study through effective and safe use of:
  • Media
  • Materials
  • Techniques
  • Processes
  • Technologies
• use drawing skills for different needs and purposes, appropriate to the titles and area(s) of study used
• realise personal intentions in Art, Craft and Design, through the sustained application of art, craft and design processes.

Learners are required to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding listed below through practical application of skills to realise personal intentions relevant to their chosen titles and area(s) of Art, Craft and Design.

Learners are required to know and understand how sources inspire the development of their ideas.

Reference should be made to the following:

• the work and approaches of artists, craftspeople or designers from contemporary and/or historical contexts, periods, societies and cultures
• contemporary and/or historical environments, situations or issues
• other relevant sources researched by the learner in the chosen specification title and area(s) of study from art, craft and design
• the ways in which meanings, ideas and intentions can be communicated through visual, sensory and tactile language, using formal elements, including:
  • Colour
  • Line
  • Form
  • Tone
  • Texture
• the characteristics, properties and effects of using different media, materials, techniques and processes, and the ways in which they can be used in relation to learners’ own creative intentions and chosen area(s) of study in art, craft and design
• the different purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design in a variety of contexts and as appropriate to learner’s work.