OUGD201 MODULE EVALUATION

1.  What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
Through out the module I have learnt a great deal, I have a much greater understanding of the print processes along with an appreciation for how greatly my design can be effect by print choices. As well as my layout skills that I developed greatly when working on the publication I did for this project.
2. What approaches to/methods of design production have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
In this project I have been much more concise with my decision making, which has allowed me to spend more time on final outcomes. I also was able to explore print in terms of stock checks etc, this will help in the future and something that I will continue to develop. I have also allowed the primary research to effect my final outcome a lot more in this project which is something that is important in greeting effective final outcomes.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these? The strengths I have found in my work this module is my ability to create a strong layout, something that I enjoy doing, I will continue to develop this skill along with my weaknesses. Another strength is that I feel my research was very strong and effective my final outcome greatly, having a wide knowledge of your chosen subject is important, and I will continue to do this in the future.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?
With in my work this module I feel there wasn’t not a wide enough range of products, I think I spent to long working on the layout of the publication and forgot about the range of products. I need to manage my time better to get a wide range of final outcomes. I also believe that my work could be starting to get a little narrow in terms style and colour pallets I think in the next project I defiantly need to use colour in a more vibrant manner.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1.Time Management Time management is crucial when designing, this project I found myself rushed at the end, as a result it resulted in a small range of products, this will need to be addresses in the future, so I can develop design further. 2.Blog Be much more consistent with the blogging, this will allow me to spend more time on the project instead of catching up with blogging. As a result work will improve.  3. Use a wide ranger range of print processes, even though this is the print module I felt as if I was reluctant to try new things, such as foiling, this needs to be addresses in the future. 4.Research This although good at the start needs to continue through out the project, so you can get a deeper understanding of the subject, I think this can only influence your design in a positive way. 5. Improve design context, I think having relevant design context in a project can give you a wider range of options when you get to your final designs, in terms of your own personal designs.
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
	1	2	3	4	5
Attendance				x
Punctuality				x
Motivation				x
Commitment				x
Quantity of work produced		x
Quality of work produced			x
Contribution to the group				x
The evaluation of your work is an important part of the assessment criteria and represents a percentage of the overall grade. It is essential that you give yourself enough time to complete your written evaluation fully and with appropriate depth and level of self-reflection. If you have any questions relating to the self evaluation process speak to a member of staff as soon as possible.

Peer Feedback- 9th nov

For this crit we were asked to simply lay out our work and fellow student will crit it focusing specifically on research range, idea generation and the purposed range of products etc. 

The feed back is shown below. 

I found the first set of feedback a little vague i don't feel as if the people criting my worked looked through the entire body of it.. however this may also be down to me and needed to take make my concept more obvious on my designs, as a result i will look into this, and how i can make this more obvious as after all i need to be encouraging people to get behind the course. 

This was more useful, and i like the idea about going into a collaboration with a stereotypically british company or event when design, i think this would look strong and add legitimacy to my project. this is something that i will defiantly continue to look into. 

Progress tutorial

This tutorial was based around discussing our potential concepts for print, we came up with a range of print solutions to discuss through. 

This tutorial helped me to define my ideas more effectively in terms of the print process. This had enabled me to re define what i need to design. deciding on sets of posters, mail shots, as well as formal publications. I will also be looking at a potential collaboration with stereotypically British companies, to push forward the idea behind the red phone box and the identity it gives the united kingdom.