Monday, 7 June 2010

10 Things I want to achieve in the 2nd year

  1. Time management skills- I plan to have personal weekly timetables to manage multiple briefs
  2. Find out more about who I am as a designer-my speciality
  3. Enter more life briefs-get more involved with finding out about these live briefs- would be good for my portfolio.
  4. Improve my blogs/ website ( which I hopefully would have created in the summer)
  5. Further technicle type skills- I think the only way I can fully understand this is not by only from reading but by DOING....Therefore I plan to include more type in my work.
  6. Make less mistakes...especially stupid ones like printing off 20 hotdog folds before proof reading
  7. Become more proactive interms of thinking about the future-get involved with potential employments
  8. Use the facilities more eg. Letter Press, Woodblock, Print- digital at Blenheim and Screen/ Mono at Vernon.
  9. Further layout skills/ InDesign- use Indesign to create prints to perhaps promote a product/ Advertise it
  10. Packaging- packaging products or use packaging as the product itself.

10 Things I want to achieve over the summer

  1. Eat proper food-Real Thai food
  2. Rest
  3. Create my own website/online folio
  4. Summer brief
  5. Graphic Design Reading (on type, colour, layout, packaging, environmental design, etc )
  6. Other Reading ( design industry related- ' Life's aPitch')
  7. Familiarise myself more with Indesign, Photoshop, even Illustrator
  8. Introduce mysel to other Adobe Programmes ( Flash, AfterEffects, Dreamweaver??)
  9. Work on previous finished briefs
  10. more advanced Photography skills

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Thursday, 3 June 2010

PPD-Presentation Preparation

PPD-Communicate a reflective summary of my experience on the course

INTRODUCTION- in this presentation Expectations, Who I am as a learner and a designer, How have things I experience over this past year affected my aims and ambition.

1. Expectations- What I wanted to achieve from being on this course was to be lead into the right direction into becoming a ( really good) Graphic Designer. I wanted the skills and knowledge about the design inductry that will give me every advantage when competing for a placement/job. I also hoped to learn about what kind og designer I want to be.

So far on this course... I feel that I'm heading in that direction...I hope!

2.Who I am as a learner and a designer?-my work and I....
I am... a problem solver,motivated, honest, direct,impulsive, open minded but also critical.
I wish I was....organised...much more organised, better informed, decisive and neat....

Therefore I've learnt that as a designer I like to solve specific problems/briefs that are given to me in a shorter amount of time rather than to create a problem to be solved over a long period of time. I struggled with the long briefs at first more specifically the 'collection 100' brief . I found it hard to manage the time we were given and took too long to figure out what my problem was.

However, over the term I learnt to manage my time better and the most recent long brief. the ' speaking fro experience ' brief I feel like I worked more effectively and more decisively. I decided quickly what the problem had to be, did some effective research and then solve the problem which I clearly specified.

Working with other people...... I've learnt that I can work with other people through the three briefs that we've had..........................................................................................(more need to be written down )

3.How have the things I experienced over this past year affected my aims and ambitions-

This year I have learnt and found skills in-
  • problem solving
  • concept building
  • working in a team/with a partner
  • software skills
  • audience awareness
  • awareness about the use of type and colour
  • effective ways in approaching briefs
Next year I would like to learn-
  • Further type skills
  • Layout and composition
  • Colour
  • Book Design/binding
  • Packaging design
As a designer I enjoy using both type and image in my work but I feel more smilled and comfortable in working with images and this is why I would really like to learn more about type. I feel that I am not as fluent in using type as using images.

At this point in time I'm still not sure about what my speaciality is but I don't feel like I am skilled in enough fields to decide that yet and thats why I would really like to learn more about other elements within Graphic Design before I do.

But I think my approach to work would be more playful, light hearted and entertaining rather than a more serious approach. I would still like it to be information and persuasive.