Graphic Communication · Higher
Higher Graphic Communication moves from making graphics to analysing them. You study how professional designers communicate, add 3D modelling and animation to your toolkit, and consider sustainability in materials and production.
What it offers you
Graphic Communication builds visual and technical design skills — sketching, CAD, desktop publishing and 3D modelling — for design, engineering and creative media study and careers.
What Higher actually asks of you
Question paper
Analysis of commercial graphics, plus questions on 2D and 3D production, technical drawing, CAD modelling, rendering, animation and the environmental impact of graphics production.
Assignment — a more demanding CAD and DTP design task, with a design brief you must interpret and justify.
Exact timings and mark allocations are printed on the front cover of each paper below.
Topics that come up
Papers & marking schemes
SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Graphic Communication Higher on sqa.org.uk.