This module has forced me to become organized and efficient with my time in order to reach the professional standard which I wanted to have on leaving this course. I feel that I have achieved this and I am pleased to say that I have advanced hugely with the quality of my design work compared to the last module before Christmas.
This has acted as motivation throughout my final major practice. Seeing the quality of my work developed and increase has spurred me on to push myself even further.
However a criticism to my organization skills would be I did not back up three of my briefs that I had been working on for my FMP. These were on my hard drive in the and last Saturday evening my hard drive became un recognized when plug into any usb port. As a result I have as far as I can see lost the final resolution to all of these briefs. This was a stupid mistake but luckily I had all of the final resolutions already printed so I hasn’t of yet caused too much of a problem.
I have achieved the majority of my goals that I set out initially at the start of this module. I have furthered my software skills in both illustrator and InDesign, to where I am now confident in using both including experimental format layout within InDesign.
It has been improving my software skills that I personally think has benefited me the most throughout this module. It has allowed me to contextualize my illustrations by placing them in a format that is suitable for each brief. As a result my type and layout skills have improved dramatically and I have developed a good understand of incorporating grids when designing a layout.
In regards to my illustration I feel I have found my niche. By combining my hand craft and then digitally manipulating them via use of a camera or on screen has been the main process which I have incorporated within my designs this module, and in my opinion to great effect.
However what I have realized when I making my sets for my design context, crafting large letter forms and geometric shapes is not for me. I didn’t enjoy joy the process as it was laborious and involved a lot of measurements and mistakes. As a result this was evident as the aesthetics of the set suffered.
I realize now that I operate best on a small scale, allowing me to pay more attention to detail and it involves less mathematics, as a lot of it can be cut out by freehand.
In producing large scale sets for both my context and the year book set shots it allowed me to learn how to professional light work. This has been invaluable as I have applied my knowledge which I learnt from this process to photographing other sets and my final products for the presentation boards and website.
To conclude, I have thoroughly enjoyed this module. I feel confident and fluent within my illustrative style and to extend its application to commercial promotional briefs. I now feel ready to leave this course as a designer.
