Collection 100-Evaluation

1.  What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

Skills I think I have developed throughout this module is the ability to develop ideas more, try out different processes and ideas so I develop a range of ideas through my project. For example in this project I learnt how to knit and to use quick time to make a stop frame, even though I didn’t use those processes for my final outcome, they are skills I now have. I think I have learnt a lot about time management during this brief, I prefer short briefs so I think my skills for assessing how long to spend on certain things and how long things actually take have improved through this module.

2. What approaches to/methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?

This module I think I have used a lot more resources when doing my research, I looked at a lot more books, not books you would necessarily relate to graphic design but helped my project, for example I looked at knitting pattern books, which then lead on to making info graphics. My primary research improved from the last module, I spoke to a lot more people, I e-mailed people I found on the internet which helped my development in this project a lot.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these? 

Strengths I can identify in my work is that I tried to do something different, I took the idea of info graphics but wanted to do something different with it. I have learnt in this module that it is okay to do different types of work, just because everyone else is working on the computer doesn’t mean I have to so I am going to continue with that throughout other modules and not be scared to try something new and different.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?

I think weaknesses in my work is that I took to long to make decisions which means that my work lacked in attention and detail as I didn’t leave enough time to do what I wanted. I also think I had to many ideas and I couldn’t decided on one. Next time I need to take an idea and go with it, it comes to a point in a project where that is what you have to do, you may end up hating it but you have to go with an idea at some point before it gets to late. 

5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these? 

1.    Manage my time better, know how long to spend on each part of a brief and when decisions need to be made, I think by doing this my work will improve.

2.    Do more design sheets and development work, I feel that the more development work and ideas I can produce the better my ideas will become and the further I will be able to push and experiment with my ideas.

3.    Keeping blogging, if I leave my blog then the work all builds up and I have to spend a long time scanning and organising all my work, if I blog my work the day I do it I will be able to keep on top of it all.

4.    I feel like I have improved and used my software skills thing module but I still think I could use it more, I do find Photoshop and Illustrator hard to use and sometimes I get annoyed at it but I think if I keep working at it I hopefully will get better.

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