Module Evaluation

Throughout this last module of my first year I have come to learn a lot about what way of working I'm comfortable with and feel I am learning from my mistakes and trying to work on where my strengths lie. I have certainly improved my skills on Illustration and InDesign, experimenting with layouts and appropriate designs using type. I seem to have really leaned on working with type without even realising it and am looking forward to improving my knowledge and continue to enjoy going down this path. I have worked hard to get straight on with a new brief as soon as I get it and through trial and error put any ideas down on paper, whether they come to be successful or not. I have also tried a lot harder to set out weekly plans for myself to balance briefs and my general workload in and out of college hours.

I have tried to broaden my research and not just use the Internet as my only source as I was at the beginning of the year. I have started to engage with my subscription to Creative Review more and set time aside to find existing examples that link closer to the work I am doing, and then display this in a way that is obvious to the viewer where my inspirations have come from. I think this mainly shows in the 'Speaking from experience' brief and not so much in the others within this module, but this is something I really want to work on going into the second year. My strengths (something which I have repeatedly noticed throughout the year) are definitely my organisation skills, as even though a lot of my final resolutions have perhaps not been as successful as I'd hoped, they have at least shown the process I went through to get there in an easy to understand way. The message itself may not have been communicated in the strongest way, but I like the way I work, whereby naturally I always try to show the path I took in a very structured way to simplify everything and explain what my intentions to solve the problem are.

However, my biggest improvement would be that my primary research is continuously getting stronger and more relevant, e.g. I am more confident now to ask more in-depth questionnaires and the results I get always help me to make decisions. However, my passion for photography has taken a back seat and I see this as a personal weakness as I would like to include it more in my researching for it to become one of my strengths.

Next year I want to focus on developing my research skills further as I know I can improve a lot more on this. I want to set time aside to gain more knowledge in the industry and develop more critical opinions on what I like and don't like and represent these in the ideas and designs I create. Then I will have stronger links between my ideas and research and I will hopefully be communicating stronger and getting the message across to the audience.

How I would rate myself at the end of this module:

(5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor)

Attendance - 4

Punctuality - 5

Motivation - 4

Commitment - 4

Quantity of work produced - 4

Quality of work produced - 4

Contribution to the group - 4