1. What
skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you
think you have applied them?
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I have learnt how to use
InDesign which made the Research, Collect, Communicate project a lot easier
when I was laying out my recipe book because I used the A Master page so the
grid system I made was the same on every page. I have also learnt a lot about
printing, just because I have done it a lot more and been taught it in the
InDesign induction, and I am getting used to different settings when printing
books, using the bypass feed, bleeding, making double sided documents and how
ink looks on different stock. This helped with the Postcard Project which was
double sided, the Research, Collect, Communicate project where I printed a
book and also chose stock to work well with the ink, and the How To brief
when printing a double sided net for the bookmark stand. I have also managed
my time a lot better as I haven’t been stressed with any of the projects from
this module and feel like I had enough time on each to complete them to a
standard I was happy with.
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2. What approaches to/methods of design production
have you developed and how have they informed your design development
process?
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Two of the projects I did
were food related, Typogateaux and Research, Collect, Communicate, and it
really helped me to write down all the ingredients and look at different
recipes in books or online to help me create my own. Baking the cake for
Typogateaux, and being able to cook some of the recipes that were in the
recipe book also helped me know that the cake would taste fine and the
recipes I included in the publication would be useable and accurate. I also
found getting feedback useful, whether in crits, questionnaires or from the
group, about if the recipes were good to include and what people prefer, what
flavour cake is peoples favourites, and whether the illustrations worked well
in the group project we did for How To. I find it easier to take feedback now
and would rather have other peoples input rather than just do what I want to
do, as design is for other people.
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3. What strengths can you identify in your work and
how have/will you capitalise on these?
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I think I used a lot of my
software skills in this module, with creating the publication in InDesign,
and the illustrations for it on Illustrator. I also made the illustrations
and bookmark stand in the How To brief in Illustrator, and I received good
feedback on both, so I think they both worked well. I was also good at
sticking to deadlines that I made for myself, within a group, or on the
brief. The group project was important for sticking to deadlines because I
needed to create illustrations and give them to the rest of the group so that
everybody else could complete their part of the brief, or I would have been
holding them up. I also finished the publication a few days before the
deadline so that I had time to learn how to bind it because I had never done
it before and I didn’t want to leave it last minute.
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4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work
and how will you address these in the future?
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I think the biggest weakness
in my work is drawing because I’m not very good at it, and it puts me of
doing lots of design sheets or making illustration a big part of my work. I
have some books on drawing though, so I’m just going to keep practising so
that it doesn’t affect and ideas I have on the next module.
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5. Identify five things that you will do
differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
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More
research to see if the How To brief was working, perhaps asking children what
they thought of the illustrations and what books they read, as that was our
target audience. This would allow use to see how successful our idea was.
Do
some test pieces of the Typogateaux, because it wasn’t very good to look at
even though it tasted nice. I think the original idea was too ambitious, and
it didn’t turn out how I wanted it to look like. This could have allowed me
to change my idea early on, because I had got quite a few that I liked.
Do
more sketches before I go to screen because I could develop more ideas and
different styles rather than going with what I first create. For example, I
could have drawn the ingredients for the recipe book in different styles
rather than going for the first one that I did. This meant I could have shown
more at a crit, and got feedback on what people preferred.
I
could have done more research for the postcard project because I didn’t do
much, and this could have improved the final postcards that I did.
Experiment
more with initial ideas, different ways of distributing, different nets,
different illustrations, layout ideas and/or text to improve my designs and
have a more focused end resolution.
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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
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