5 reasons why I chose to study BAGD at LCA:
- I want to become a well educated designer in graphics, and I think that completing this course successfully will fulfill that ambition. The course is intense compared to some university courses, which I think is a great thing, and hopefully it will give us an advantage over everyone else studying similar subjects.
- I want to learn about graphics, understand software and know about what's going on in the contemporary world.
- I want to prepare myself for the working world and this course persuades us to be gathering contacts from an early stage.
- The college is specifically an art college which is geared up with specialist resources which means we can dabble in anything.
- Also because I love being creative and being surrounded by other creative people.
5 things I want to learn while studying on the program:
- On the course I really want to improve my knowledge of software that is available for us to use as mixing CAD with hand-made, I think looks great.
- I want to know what's going on out in the real world, and be able to match the standard, if not better, the other graphic designers out there.
- I'm looking forward to learning more about typography as it isn't one of my strongest points.
- I'd love to become more eloquent when presenting work and even when writing.
- I can't wait to learn more about screen printing and other techniques of printing that is offered to us.
5 of my current strengths:
- I love to brain storm ideas and often my ideas have a real meaning behind them, which I think is important.
- I also enjoy working in a group, using everybody's input means you can create something you'd never have thought up in your own head.
- I like to be different from everyone else and often my outcomes are completely different from other peoples', I think this is important because I do not want to become a clone.
- I like to use mixed media for example; photography, sewing, print, drawing.
- I enjoy collecting research from other designers and letting it influence my work.
5 things I want to improve:
- I would like to improve my time management skills. Being on time for things, and choosing what is best to do with my time is a bit of a downfall for me.
- I want to improve my CAD skills as it's important in the contemporary industry
- I'd love to become better at drawing, whether it's detailed or simplified drawings as I find drawing really relaxing. I also think that when drawings are combined with text it can look really good.
- Speaking in front of crowds is a great thing to be able to do well, I need to become more confident when presenting my own work.
- I want to become quicker at generating work as I am easily distracted.
5 ways you will evaluate your progress:
- Having a blog will help to easily look back at previous work and I'll be able to compare it to the work that I'm doing at the time.
- Show my work to people, designers and outsiders, make them tell me what they think.
- Group Crits will hopefully also aid my evaluation of progress.
- Tutorials and Assessments with the tutors should give me a good over view of how I'm getting on.
- As I become more educated in the realms of graphic design I will be able to crit my own previous work and compare it to current work.
5 questions I'd like answered:
- How do I go about finding work experience and internships?
- What do I do when I've finished my degree if I don't have a job lined up?
- How do I become successful?
- Am I more suited to working collaboratively or independantly?
- Where will I be in the future, will i be a successful designer?
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