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2-D Design BREADTH—Section III
A variety of works demonstrating understanding of the principles of design. Look for engagement with a range of design principles:

6 EXCELLENT BREADTH
• The work demonstrates serious, successful engagement with a broad range of design problems. • The work demonstrates confident articulation of the principles of design. • The work uses the elements and principles of design in inventive or evocative ways. • Most work demonstrates successful experimentation, risk-taking, and/or ambition. • The work is technically accomplished. • The work addresses sophisticated/complex ideas with confidence and verve. • Form and content are synthesized to communicate visual ideas. • Overall, the work is of excellent quality.

5 STRONG BREADTH
• The work demonstrates engagement with a broad range of design problems. • The work demonstrates successful articulation of the principles of design. • The work may demonstrate successful experimentation and/or risk-taking. • The use of materials is appropriate to the problems addressed, and technique is generally strong. • The work addresses sophisticated and/or complex ideas with some success. • The work shows clear decision-making. • The link between form and content is strong. • Overall, the quality of the work is strong.

4 GOOD BREADTH
• The work shows engagement with a reasonable range of design problems. • The work demonstrates a clear effort to apply the principles of design with some success. • The work may appear as very successful solutions to design exercises but does not go beyond that level. • Technique and use of materials is reasonably competent. • The work shows an emerging sense of ambition and/or sophistication. • There is evidence of thinking in most of the works. • There is some relationship between form and content. • Range of design problems may be limited despite strong to excellent quality. • The work may demonstrate strong-to-excellent breadth of design problems attempted but be of less than good quality. • Overall, the work is of good quality.

3 MODERATE BREADTH
• The work shows engagement with a superficial range of design problems. • Understanding and application of design principles is emerging. • The work may appear to be good solutions to design exercises but not go beyond that level. • Technical skill is uneven or questionable. • The work may show slight experimentation or risk-taking. • There is evidence of a modest level of thinking/decision-making in the work. • The relationship between form and content is unclear. • The work may be of good quality but with a narrow range of experience demonstrated. • The work may exhibit good breadth but be of less than moderate quality. • Overall, the work is of moderate quality.

2 WEAK BREADTH
• The work shows little engagement with a range of design problems. • Understanding of design principles appears to be fairly undeveloped. • The work may attempt to address a range of design issues without much success. • Technique/use of materials is awkward. • The work may demonstrate good to moderate technique, but the engagement with the principles of design is weak. • Solutions to a range of problems may be simplistic. • Evidence of thinking/decision-making is slight or present in only a few works. • There is little apparent relationship between form and content. • The work may be moderate in quality but not address a range of design issues. • There may be a moderate demonstration of breadth, but the work is of poor quality. • Overall, the work is of weak quality.

1 POOR BREADTH
• The range of design problems addressed is extremely limited. • Understanding of design principles is questionable or lacking. • The work may be weak in quality and not address a range of design issues. • A variety of design problems are attempted, but solutions are generally unsuccessful. • Technique is clumsy/incompetent. • The work may demonstrate moderate to weak technique, but the engagement with the principles of design is poor. • Solutions tend to be inept or trite. • Little, if any, evidence of thinking/decision-making is present in the work. • Form, material, and content are unconsidered. • Not enough work is presented to demonstrate breadth. • The slides are virtually impossible to see.