1. Reflect on the relationship between your portfolio of work and your creative ambitions as a designer.
My portfolio is very image based. My main interests are illustration, character design and hand rendered craft. I have tried to show these through out my portfolio, but also i have shown some of my strong conceptual resolutions.
I have a real interest in craft and will be continuing this design practice.
2. Relate your own work to specific examples/areas of contemporary design practice.
My ambitions as a designer and career wise is to be apart of creative design team with similar interests as myself but a varity of different design skills, aswel as having my own archive of deisgn practice.
I feel my skills would be used to their full potential and not just used for every solution, i dont want to pigeon hole myself.
3. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses against identified intentions and areas of contemporary practice.
My strengths are my illustrative, crafting and character design skills, i can create ideas very quickly on paper.
My weaknesses are my project management and organization. I need to improve on this if i am to gain my full potential.
I need to improve my computer skills, altough i have a huge improvement on last year i need to learn how to organise work on my computer, learn specific setting.
4. Clarify areas of design, skills development and professional concerns that you aim to investigate further from this point forward.
My aims for the 3rd year are to continue practicing my illustrative and craft skills, I have to come back from summer a more organized person, although i work hard when it comes to hand in i can let myself down. I need to improve working with layout and look at the best ways of showing my final resoltions.
5. Briefly clarify the relationship between your creative practice and your proposed dissertation.
I want to gain a better understanding of craft and the relavance of it in design, my dissertation title, 'what are the reasons for DIY aesthetics in contemporary illustration?' will able me to do so, meeting and speaking with designers will give me more of an insight.
6/10/2009
5/31/2009
Evaluation
1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
During this module i have learnt how to work with one of my piers on a collabrative brief, sharing ideas, opions and managing an even work-load. I have learnt new photography skills, setting up studio, lighting and screen which i learned during the HP brief. I also have alot more knowledge of photoshop and illustrator, i used these when creating characters for the HP brief.
2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
When i first started the orange brief i start to myself i would resolve it using illustration and character design and tried to force it to resolve the brief. Once i took a step back and had a closler look at the brief, i began to think more conceptual and realised if i get the concept right i can use any method to resolve the brief just as long as that concept remains clear.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I have used alot of my drawing and craft skills during this module and im confident when sketching, i can draw fast which allows me to rapidly generate ideas. This helped me develope my ideas quickly and also pushed my ideas further than i thought they could, resulting in an outcome i didnt initially think i could achieve.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
I tend to get carried away wth my ideas which can take me off track at times, i will think of an idea which may open other and a other, but i they sometimes are not relavant. There for i end up losing time. Although my basic knowledge of photoshop and illustrator have improved i did gat carried away creating characters on illustrator once i knew how, i would have benifited more by sketching these out.
5.Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Research more
Make decisions earlier to prevent time wasting
Check print modes to prevent disapointment
Organise my time better
Organise my work-load more efficiently
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
Attendance 5
Punctuality 5
Motivation 5
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 4
Working in a pair 4
During this module i have learnt how to work with one of my piers on a collabrative brief, sharing ideas, opions and managing an even work-load. I have learnt new photography skills, setting up studio, lighting and screen which i learned during the HP brief. I also have alot more knowledge of photoshop and illustrator, i used these when creating characters for the HP brief.
2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
When i first started the orange brief i start to myself i would resolve it using illustration and character design and tried to force it to resolve the brief. Once i took a step back and had a closler look at the brief, i began to think more conceptual and realised if i get the concept right i can use any method to resolve the brief just as long as that concept remains clear.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I have used alot of my drawing and craft skills during this module and im confident when sketching, i can draw fast which allows me to rapidly generate ideas. This helped me develope my ideas quickly and also pushed my ideas further than i thought they could, resulting in an outcome i didnt initially think i could achieve.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
I tend to get carried away wth my ideas which can take me off track at times, i will think of an idea which may open other and a other, but i they sometimes are not relavant. There for i end up losing time. Although my basic knowledge of photoshop and illustrator have improved i did gat carried away creating characters on illustrator once i knew how, i would have benifited more by sketching these out.
5.Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Research more
Make decisions earlier to prevent time wasting
Check print modes to prevent disapointment
Organise my time better
Organise my work-load more efficiently
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
Attendance 5
Punctuality 5
Motivation 5
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 4
Working in a pair 4
5/27/2009
5/26/2009
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