Self Evaluations:
Design Principles
Design Principles
Design Practice
New Skills:
InDesign
InDesign is something that I have never used before and have really found it useful throughout this first year. I have created multiple booked in InDesign, and although I found it very difficult at first I kept working with it and have found that my InDesign Skills are improving. In the future I want to have more of an understanding of all of the function in InDesign and to have more confidence when I am using it.
Screen Printing
Screen printing was something that was completely new to me until this year. It is something that I enjoy doing and hope that it is something that I will improve in next year by trying much more complex designs and adding more colours to add a challenge.
Book Binding
Bookbinding was a very useful skill that I was able to acquire this year. In the future I hope that I will be able to create a lot of good quality books.
Group Work
Group work was again pretty now to me this year. I found working in a group to be very useful to see how other designers work and approach problems. However I found it to be a challenge to equally balance out the workload, people seemed to do some that others. In future I will make sure that the work in allocated fairly and equally.
Weaknesses:
Regularly Blogging
I found that I usually left my blogging until the last minute, this means that what I am blogging about is not fresh in my mind and could be from a few weeks ago, so certain important aspects could be forgotten. I want to get into the habit where I try to update my blog once a week at minimum. This will hopefully improve the quality of my blog.
Too much digital work
This year I think that I focused too much on digital work. Hand rendered work was such a personal feel to it. Next year I want to include much more hand rendered work into my briefs.
Research
I think that my research could be greatly improve. Especially primary research. I think it is vital that I collect my own research and opinions rather that just using the internet to look at other peoples research. From this I will gain a greater understanding of my projects. Research impacts my designs, so better research will lead to better final outcomes and stronger concepts.
Time Management
Time management was a big issue for me this year, and I think that some of my work suffered because of it. In future to work on this problem I will create to do lists and make time tables to manage my time, to insure I am using my time efficiently and nothing is rushed.
New Skills:
InDesign
InDesign is something that I have never used before and have really found it useful throughout this first year. I have created multiple booked in InDesign, and although I found it very difficult at first I kept working with it and have found that my InDesign Skills are improving. In the future I want to have more of an understanding of all of the function in InDesign and to have more confidence when I am using it.
Screen Printing
Screen printing was something that was completely new to me until this year. It is something that I enjoy doing and hope that it is something that I will improve in next year by trying much more complex designs and adding more colours to add a challenge.
Book Binding
Bookbinding was a very useful skill that I was able to acquire this year. In the future I hope that I will be able to create a lot of good quality books.
Group Work
Group work was again pretty now to me this year. I found working in a group to be very useful to see how other designers work and approach problems. However I found it to be a challenge to equally balance out the workload, people seemed to do some that others. In future I will make sure that the work in allocated fairly and equally.
Weaknesses:
Regularly Blogging
I found that I usually left my blogging until the last minute, this means that what I am blogging about is not fresh in my mind and could be from a few weeks ago, so certain important aspects could be forgotten. I want to get into the habit where I try to update my blog once a week at minimum. This will hopefully improve the quality of my blog.
Too much digital work
This year I think that I focused too much on digital work. Hand rendered work was such a personal feel to it. Next year I want to include much more hand rendered work into my briefs.
Research
I think that my research could be greatly improve. Especially primary research. I think it is vital that I collect my own research and opinions rather that just using the internet to look at other peoples research. From this I will gain a greater understanding of my projects. Research impacts my designs, so better research will lead to better final outcomes and stronger concepts.
Time Management
Time management was a big issue for me this year, and I think that some of my work suffered because of it. In future to work on this problem I will create to do lists and make time tables to manage my time, to insure I am using my time efficiently and nothing is rushed.
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