What have you/ want to learn/ed?
I can't believe how quickly this year has gone but at the same time it feels like we've been here forever. Throughout the year I've learned many new skills, mostly are computer aided as I'd never used InDesign or Illustrator in the past. The Workshops I have enjoyed learning about the most are screen-print because I think it's an interesting process and you can produce some really diverse prints and completely simple prints but whatever, it usually looks good when screen-printed. Another workshop I enjoyed was laser cutting. Even though I'm really interested in print-based work, I think it's great to have a go at something else as it gives you completely different outcomes and effects. Hahaha, for example my wooden potato fridge magnet, could have been better but I was just happy to experiment really.
What mistakes have you made?
One of the questions we had to answer was 'what mistakes have you made this year?' well I feel like I've made loads, but looking back over my work, the thing that sticks out the most to me was that mailshot brief. I don't know what I was thinking, it was awful.
What are your strengths?
Something that I really feel that I've achieved from this year, you might agree with me, is the generation of idea's, which is something I tend to forget about now because it doesn't seem like a big deal. I remember Fred saying 'Don't just sit and wait for inspiration to come.' Also the sessions with Amber when we had to generate 50 different solutions or something helped greatly even though at the time it was a bit tedious.
Another thing that has improved this year is definitely my time management, it's definitely not great but its much better. Back in foundation I never could get anything finished and I'm really happy I've left that behind. This year has definitely taught me to just get on with it. I've got a few of my sketchbooks here from foundation to show you the difference from then and now. I used to constantly be doing sketchbooks, I really enjoyed it aswell, but somehow I seemed to confine my work to books only which was a bit of a dead end. Through the use of design sheets and blogging my design process is much better and I've finally churned out some decent final outcomes.
I enjoy working on projects that have a longer time schedule. I think I'm a designer who has to understand a lot about the given brief in order for it to be successful, and to get to know something well it takes time.
A project I thoroughly enjoyed was the '100 things' project as I designed it all around something I really love - festivals and I'm really passionate about music too so that was really important for me to include that. This is an area which I would absolutely love to work in when I'm graduated, designing things like festival line up posters, flyers, wristbands, t-shirts and maybe even websites.
Here is a picture of my friend Glen sporting a few of the designs from the 100 Things Project, kinda cheesy.
A picture of the poster I designed in my geeky graphicy bedroom:
The other brief I enjoyed was 'What is a line?' I think it's better when you're designing sets of things instead of just one product because they tend to look good together.
What I'm looking forward to:
I've heard that in the second year we're doing a motion graphics project or something along those lines. I'm really interesting in animation, I've got a video to show you that spurred my interest within this area... I'll play you a small clip to show you what I mean, you might find that you're interested aswell.
Also one of the illustrators I keep banging on about to everyone, Julia Pott is an animator aswell and I find her work really interesting.
What did you want from first year?
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.
I'd just like to end this presentation with my favourite picture from this year:
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