Tuesday, 1 October 2013

OUGD502 - 10 Things

In groups we had to come up with 10 things we thought we have done successfully over the past academic year.

10 things
  1. Blogging - learning our way around it, knowing when to blog & how to work it
  2. Money management - learning how to manage & sustain money throughout the course
  3. Time management - knowing when to do what and when & deadlines
  4. Print process - workshops such as screen printing etc.
  5. Presenting work
  6. Confidence in own ability
  7. Listening to feedback - Listening & applying feedback/giving good constructive feedback
  8. Thought process and development - knowing to not go with the first idea & explore more
  9. Knowledge & understanding of digital software - CS6
  10. Independence in work production
  11. Appropriate research resources - looking into blogs
  12. Broad range of research - not just going straight to the internet, using books etc instead
Top 10 as a year group
  1. Presentation skills
  2. Feedback
  3. Workshops
  4. Independence
  5. Research/development
  6. Understand time management
  7. Working in/ with groups/ specialisms
  8. Confidence/ Motivations
  9. Theory/ Context
  10. Individual Style

Task: Pick out 10 successful traits that I want to explore & expand upon this year
  1. Continue to develop my skills and use of digital software; Photoshop, Illustrator & Indesign
  2. Learn how to create websites and experiment in this media
  3. Create work in a variety of different media, such as screen printing, drawing & use of the laser cutter.
  4. Begin to incorporate different processes on the same piece of work instead of sticking to one media throughout. Perhaps combing drawing and digital etc.
  5. Experiment with scale, particularly large scale.
  6. Spend more time on research in briefs to get a fuller understanding in my outcome and the reasons for it. Expand on my methods of collecting research.
  7. Start to use hand-rendered design work instead of relying solely on digital all the time
  8. Continue to develop my interest in editorial work and book binding.
  9. Gain a fuller understanding into the history of graphic design, particularly in typeface design and history.
  10. Work of essay writing.

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