Homemade, sainsburys, postcards

BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN – END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION

Design Practise

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

Skills- Create a body of research that consists of illustrations and graphics design that I find challenging and aim for the same high quality. For my homemade brief I was able to work faster than any other module producing research, designs sheets and final piece in the space of less than four days as the deadline for the exhibition was on the 4Th may which gave me very little to time to create the final piece.
The postcards brief made my skills of illustrations better but it took a lot of time to produce just a few images.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

One of my Briefs the homemade was one of the hardest briefs as I had to produce something fast but with a good concept linking to homemade and produce quality as well.But because of that I was able to have my piece at the Syntheastwood Gallery in Dublin.
The Sainsburys brief made me think what is integrity and how to show what it is simply towards the aim of the audience which are usually mothers.
Postcards made me think what a postcard is and what the element you need in it like room to put the stamp and where to write the address.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalize on these?

strengths- worked well under pressure for example the homemade brief and quality of the illustrations through the postcard brief and the primary research of the roots and photographs of Cockermouth. Also working well with time use effectively and had a list to aim what to produce each day, this stuck to my original time table very well.

weaknesses- I took too long to produce the postcards illustrations and need to draw faster with better quality and I don't think I produce the finished piece of the sainsburys bag very well. I was disappointed of what I produced and knew I could do better.

5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

1. work fast, not to concentrate too much on one image
2. be more critical with my work, didn't think I push my self hard enough like the other briefs
3. worked on different style of illustrations experiment what I could do.
4. ask for other opinions by class mates.
5. not to concentrate on one idea.

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

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AttendanceX= 5 ( Being big headed I would say 10)
PunctualityX= 5 (again being more big headed 100)
MotivationX=5
CommitmentX=5
Quantity of work producedX=4
Quality of work producedX=4
Contribution to the groupX=4
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.