- I have learned to collect vast amounts of research in a relatively short space of time, so there is more of a basis before the design process
- I have learned how to push just one idea as far as possible, and that it is easier because of the amount of research backing it
2. What approaches to/methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
- Looking in different places; library, internet, inside, outside, asking people, questionnaires from random people or at least varied types of people. The more sources you can bring together, the more obvious a problem area will be, often things will overlap if you have enough sources, indicating in one way or another a gap for a product or resolution.
- Taking in as much information as possible from a valued source, which is often a competitor to your potential market. For me it was the Highway Code, not only did I learn an awful amount, (which I had obviously forgotten in just two years of driving), but it made me realise how successful something in my design area already was, so I couldn’t compete with it, and had to step away from that direction all together
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
- I have worked with various amount of image manipulation before, but never in such a confined way, so it was interesting to see how disciplined I could be to create subtle manipulations and edits in order to create 100 suitable varied images.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
- I think the main weakness was variations within my ideas. I went with my idea from the beginning as this was advised as I missed the first week due to the snow. However it meant that I had to work hard within this area to produce something effective, which I think the idea and potential was certainly there, but perhaps the lack of visual variations within the process, let me down and lead me into an inevitable finished piece.
- Time management was a major issue within my work. Not in the obvious sense that I didn’t work hard enough to begin with and had sleepless nights at the end, although it did end up like this anyway, but it was mainly due to the order in which I undertook certain processes. I occasionally found that I couldn’t do anymore work until the completion of another part of my work had happened.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1. Time management – for the reasons above and next time I know I need to plan ahead not only to space things out so that everything can be completed, but so that everything can be undertaken in an order which is most efficient, so there is little waiting around. However I guess this depends on the type of project, but I will still consider it.
2. Diet & Sleep pattern – it seems minor and sort of links to time management, but I need to get myself into the best possible routine, where I can work arrive at uni and work all day and then eat and sleep. As opposed to power naps after uni and working until early hours and thus needing another power nap the next day. Basically I need to start a successful cycle from the beginning of the next module. I also found that when I was at my busiest I would eat something quick and occasionally opt for a takeaway, hoping to save valuable working time, however this was to have a negative effect at the worst possible time when I became ill in the middle of the deadline week. So even thought I probably saved an hour each time I had a quick snack or a takeaway, the nutritional values I missed due to the lack of home cooked healthy food could possibly have been part of the reason I was bed ridden for over two days in the middle of the deadline week.
3. Ideas variations – if I had not had the first week off due to snow I may well have had more initial ideas, but even so my chosen idea was fairly strong. The area I feel I need to develop is the ideas and thinking during the design process. I aim to carefully consider more thorough critical analysis and visual variations next time around.
4. Stock/media experiments – I made too many assumptions within this brief in order to save time, but it ended up wasting time and money, so if necessary next time I will need to do more experiments with stock, media and printing.
5. Stay away from digital type – unfortunately it seems to a similar issue as last time. Being a first year I don’t really want to structure my design direction too much, the next module, I plan to really step outside of my comfort zone and produce something which doesn’t look like ‘my’ work at all; perhaps some illustration and I will try my best not to use digital type as a vocal point of the work.
(6). Don’t get ill and don’t get snowed in at the beginning and end of a module!
6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
| 6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas: (please indicate using an ‘x’) 5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor | |||||
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Attendance | | | x | | |
| Punctuality | | | | | x |
| Motivation | | | | x | |
| Commitment | | | | x | |
| Quantity of work produced | | | x | | |
| Quality of work produced | | x | | | |
| Contribution to the group | | | | x | |
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