Seminar with Bridget - Costings

Mazlow's heirarchy of need

• Physiological needs
• Safety and security needs
• Love and belonging needs
• Esteem needs
• Self-actualisation needs
• Travel and personal needs

Costing sheet

Lecture 1 - What is marketing? Notes

End of module evaluation OUGD103

1. WHAT PRACTICAL SKILLS HAVE YOU DEVELOPED DURING THIS MODULE AND HOW EFFECTIVELY HAVE YOU APPLIED THEM?

This module has really helped me find my own place in the studio and the design process. The collaborative brief taught me a lot about picking the right team of people and how important it is. You need to collaborate with people who have strengths in different areas to you, rather than similar as it gives a much more rounded result. For example for our collaboration, i mainly focused on the computerized aspects of the designing, Liz on the illustration and Steph on the type, and the result was particularly effective.

I've worked a lot on the computer for these recent briefs and really enjoyed fortifying my skills in the Adobe programmes.

I also tried out print and letterpress, which I would love to use again in the future, it was so interesting to learn new skills that I hadn't known about before and gives such a nice hand-rendered feel.

2. WHAT APPROACHES TO/METHODS OF PROBLEM SOLVING HAVE YOU DEVELOPED AND HOW HAS THIS AFFECTED YOUR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS?

I have furthered my research skills which we were taught in the previous module, and as I did more, I found it more and more useful. Knowing the subject which you are working on is definitely a must if you are going to produce a good result.

I also learnt illustration skills from the other students in the class, those who's passion is drawing, I'm liking the hand-rendered effect a lot at the moment and would love to do more of it, print-making aswell.

For the Speaking From Experience brief, I found the crits really useful, and being made to follow up more than one idea to get the perfect one is really useful as, if I had gone with my initial idea, it would have failed and probably have looked terrible.

3. WHAT STRENGTHS CAN YOU IDENTIFY IN YOUR WORK AND HOW HAVE/WILL YOU CAPITALIZE ON THESE?

I think my main strengths this module reside in my research and work produced on the macs. I was really interested in the InDesign programme and learning about layout.

I also think that my skills on Illustrator have advanced a lot which I'm really happy about as it was my main "what I want to learn this year" at the begginning of the course. I would love to learn a lot more about these programmes.

4. WHAT WEAKNESSES CAN YOU IDENTIFY IN YOUR WORK AND HOW WILL YOU ADRESS THESE IN THE FUTURE?

Due to illness and other various issues I wasn't putting my all into this module, and paying for it now as I am not happy with a lot of the work produced. My motivation was down and my time management was terrible. I need to learn to start a brief at the begginning rather than leaving it to the crunch time.

5. IDENTIFY 5 THINGS THAT YOU WILL DO DIFFERENTLY AND WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO GAIN FROM THESE?

1. Work better as a team, put more into the group.
2. Work on my time management, get more done, more quickly.
3. More experimentation and recording of ideas, better results are acquired when you try out a lot of different things.
4. Focus more in inductions, I find it hard to remember a lot of the things I have learnt.
5. Stay healthy. My health has been terrible.

6. ARE THERE ANY THINGS WE COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY THAT WOULD HAVE BENIFITTED YOUR PROGRESS?

No, I think this module was really well thought out and organized.

7.

ATTENDENCE - 3

PUNCTUALITY- 4

MOTIVATION - 2

COMMITMENT - 3

QUANTITY OF WORK PRODUCED - 3

QUALITY OF WORK PRODUCED - 3

CONTRIBUTION TO THE GROUP - 3

PPD Presentation - Outcome sheets

Communication is a Virus - Final Feedback

For this final crit, every group set out their work with no back-up work in the class. This is a perfect way to see wether each piece of work was effective in communicating both the problem and the solution. This was the feedback we received.

What Is A Line - Self-Evaluation

As Amber said at the beginning, I found the time management for this project slightly difficult as it was prioritizing it above or below the others going for OUGD102/03. I found myself full of ideas when first given the brief, and, surprisingly, my first idea was the one i then followed up and carried on to the end.
I actually really enjoyed the design process of this brief. Photography has always been a passion of mine, made more so after our elective, and as this was a project in which you could progress in any way you wished, I immediately tried to focus on photography-based ideas. As I had decided to have both rural and urban ones, the easter period fell perfectly as I returned home to Dorset and visited Cornwall which gave a really nice variation to the collection of photographs i put together. I also enjoyed experimenting with photoshop to see what brought the lines (if very subtle ones) out in the pictures. It felt like the possibilities for this brief were endless. The installation process was tricky... just finding a corridor long enough, also positioning each photograph and deciding on the sizing.
I feel that if I had put more time into this project that it could have been taken a lot further. Since the hand-in date I have been experimenting further with the photos, putting them together on illustrator and seeing what other effects I can put on the actual photographs themselves.
In some ways, I'd like to carry on going with this as an ongoing investigation, maybe see how long I can get the continuous line. It has definitely made me a lot more aware of different lines in the environment, they are everywhere and in all different shapes and sizes. Everywhere I look now I see them and position them in my head next to each other.

Communication is a virus - Student Presentation 1