1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
There are various things elements throughout this past module that have introduced me to new skills, the opportunity of experimenting with different scales of designs, I have worked with A2 posters, large 3d boxes down to stamps, and this has taught me that the space of your canvas really makes a difference to your layout and design decisions, for example, having to fit information and visuals onto a piece that is the size of the stamp, is quite difficult, but there is always a way to do it. This problem can also happen with larger pieces, just putting visuals on a piece of paper does not make it a poster, layout really makes the difference, and it can be something as simple as moving some text to a different position that can make the difference between a good piece of design and a bad one.
We used video for the first time in communication is a virus brief, to create a video as one of our final products, this involved having to work out video editing software which is a first for me, hopefully this will benefit me in the future.
2. What approaches to/ methods of design production have developed and how have they informed your design development process?
In the group brief, even though we may not have ended up with the greatest piece of design we have ever done, I think the method in which we assigned tasks and individual deadlines throughout, kept us on top of our work load, this helped my time management on this brief which made me feel more relaxed throughout while still remaining to have the same (if not more) amount of work as my other briefs. I think this is an element that I need to take into future briefs as staying relaxed and on top of the work load really does make a difference especially when pressure of deadlines is building
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/ will you capitalise on these?
I
think over this module my decision making skills have definitely
improved, making more quick decisions and going with them, starting off
with an initial idea and amending it when necessary. In some cases this
has been a benefit but in some it did not pay off as well as i would
have hoped. In the group brief, our quick decisions were more of a
negative but still had positive elements, it was good as we moved
quickly and it allowed for greater mistakes to be made, but at the same
time, we thought of our concept too quickly and kept pushing through and
trying to convince people of our produced while kind of forgetting
about the purpose of the brief, and our quick decisions kept taking us
further in the wrong direction, until we were to far away to pull it
back.
Some
of my conceptual ideas are improving i think, I am finding it easier to
think of more options for problems, well maybe not in every brief, but
for my rain posters and stamp it brief I think conceptually my ideas are
improving.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?
When it comes to weaknesses I still am working on the same problems, especially time management, as we have had more free time to get on with work I have found it more difficult to organise myself and organise the work I have so I know what I need to do and when I need to do it by, because at the minute I still sometimes come in and feel panicy about a brief or a problem and not know where or how to start. However I know it is possible to develop ideas and make progress quickly and successfully without getting stressed. I need to create initial ideas and start briefs as soon as I get them instead of waiting until I feel I have no choice but to do it.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
- Set myself personal deadlines at the beginning of a brief and stick to them religiously, this will improves my time management as well as allowing me to relax and slowly and steadily develop a brief rather than just panic to finish.
- Screen print more of my designs, i have wimped out of screen printing for the most of this year as it is a new tool for me and I usually end up leaving my printing too late and panicking and resorting back t digital print, which I am rarely happy with to be honest.
- Experiment more with design methods and try to find a way of producing solutions to problems that suits me the best, at the minute I am just following other people and some things work and others dont, I need to keep experimenting until I find a personal way that works best for me.
- Need to produce more initial designs, to give me a broader range of options, instead of just settling for the first design I produce that I like, i think with more effort i can turn my mediocre designs into really good ones.
- Probably grow up a little bit more, instead of getting intimidated by briefs i need to learn to embrace them all and I truly believe that if I go into each brief in a positive way then it doesn't matter the topic, you can always become interested or bring interest to the topic.
6. how would you grade yourself on the following areas?
Attendance - 4
Punctuality - 4
Motivation - 2
Commitment - 2
Quantity of work produced - 3
Quality of work produced - 3
Contribution to the group - 4
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