BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN – END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION
Module Title: FEEL GOOD collaboration brief...
1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
I feel that working collaboratively with someone else has given me a sense of respect towards a partnership. I have been able to address my strengths and my weaknesses and I feel this has helped me to develop as a better designer. I have learnt to be more direct with my planning and feel that I have also got a sense of direction for my work now. I feel that it has made me more aware that I would like to do more image based and illustrative work and focus my skills upon this area. I feel that by developing my image making skills within this module has helped me to become more aware of this and my practice. I feel I developed my skills further in Adobe Illustrator and layout for my final presentation boards. Working with Hayley was a breath of fresh air as she made me think about issues I wouldn't normally have considered.
2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
Working collaboratively has helped me develop ideas quickly to work out resolutions. I have found myself trying and testing work at pace and being able to bounce ideas off one another has also overcome problems. Being able to talk to someone that I am working with rather than talking to someone for advice in crits has been helpful. I have found it inspirational and we both had a constant enthusiasm throughout the brief. I have used Hayleys approaches to idea generation through mock-ups and brainstorming very helpful. Although we had quite similar ways of working I found her idea development was a little different to mine. We worked by sketching out our ideas and trying illustrations. Where as I would normally have just noted down my ideas rather than visualising them. I feel I need to work like this more in the future.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I feel my strengths lie in image making, illustration and layout. I will capitalise on these by focusing my work practice on these skills in future projects. I will carry on working in an illustrative and image way and try to develop the strengths of my illustrations. I would also like to develop a style that is recognisably my own.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
I constantly criticise my time management and organisational skills. I need to address this and become more focused in my way of working. Working with someone else helped me to become better at this and stick to deadlines appropriately. I also feel that I need to practice my illustration skills. I don't draw enough outside of projects and modules in my spare time and would like to begin a notebook of my own illustrations and sketches. I realise that when i come to draw it doesn't come as easily to me as when I have been drawing in my free time. Practice makes perfect!
I also feel that I need to organise my development work better and continually evaluate my work as i progress, i don't do enough of this and will start to put more work on my blog.
5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1. I would possibly try to team up with a collaborative partner that had a wider range of skills that were opposite to mine. I felt that Hayley and I were too similar in our ways of working.
2. Try to manage my time better. We both stressed out a but towards the end!
3. Take ideas further and try to develop them more fully. Carry on with ideas even after hand in.
4. Explore a wider range of print stocks and expand my knowledge upon them.
5. Work more visually, sketching out ideas, rather than in note form.
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