I have mixed emotions about this module, at
the beginning and up until reading week I found it hard to get into any of the
projects. There was no clear reason why but I think the fear was of the amount
of work ahead of me. After a few crits of constructive criticism, I started to
stop being stressed about the amount of work and started to enjoy the process
of developing ideas and handling that much pressure. There was quite a leap
between second year workload and quality required and the effort and commitment
needed compared to that of third year and I think that within this module I’ve
learnt more about myself as a designer and my own practice than at any other
point in the course.
I was coming in to college at 9am and
leaving at 9pm quite often, but it wasn’t up until after reading week that I’d
actually fully take advantage of this time and being as productive as I could
instead of just been busy. I think that’s something in hindsight I would
definitely change, making the most of the time I’ve got instead of thinking
about what I’m going to do and actually do it.
Reflecting on the work I’ve produced I
realise I haven’t worked in a way that ticks all the criteria boxes and maybe
this is a problem I need to assess ahead of FMP, but I also think it’s a case of
documenting my development and my idea generation. However I feel that my
design practice is changing and improving, I’m in a place now where I feel more
confident about experimenting with new styles and that I’m improving as a
designer and pushing the concepts of a brief.
From the beginning of the module I had a
clear idea of what I wanted to do and what areas I wanted to cover, this was
mainly design for the fashion and art industry which two of the briefs covered
(Blue Rinse branding and branding for a photographer) and I want to carry this
forth into my FMP as I still feel strongly about designing for the creative
industry and collaborating with different disciplines of creative. I also
developed good networking and communication skills whilst working with the
photographer and this has allowed me to get more out of a client than I would
of normally and really helped with developing idea for the project (brief two)
Overall I’m frustrated with myself that I
allowed myself to slip into a slow pace so early in the module and I genuinely
think I made a huge mistake and ruined a potentially rewarding module. My time
management and my documentation needs to carry on being at its recent level and
go as far as improving substantially. I’m
disappointed that I didn’t quite reach the potential with my briefs and that I
only did four but it’s something I’ve learnt from and I’m heading into the
final part of the course knowing what I need to do and knowing I’m quite
excited about turning it around improving from this module.
