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.

Boards

the finished design of the boards

designs for package

I designed a similar style of the postcards and I tested out different stock I choosen the yellow one it stands out more and works best as a stock

design for packaging

I want to produce a package for the postcards.

final design 4 seasons

the four seasons

for my postcards I will create more than one
I wont a set of a theme I came up with the four seasons
summer
spring
autumn
winter

photoshop postcards

these work well there simple and like the simple shapes around it makes it more modern.

Illustrations postcards

these work really well they look delicate and unique.
I will try and to do this on photoshop weather which works best.

Design devlopment

I changed a few things from my original design but still need to be worked on

moving on

From looking at the creative bags it made wonna push further what is intedrity and talked to a few class mates id it just should be source with intedrity.
so ive looked at vegetable as the intedrity.

cockermouth

My postcards is about where I live in Cockermouth and these are my original pictures I took and will collarge it with photography and ilustrations.





















Cockermouth owes it existence to the river system. The nearby Roman camp of Dervenitio, modern Papcastle, was situated at the northern end of a crossing of the river Derwent, which flows from east to west just north of the present town centre. Here was an important road junction in the back-up to Hadrian’s Wall. Also originating in the central Lakeland fells, the Cocker flows from the south to enter the Derwent here, hence the name of the town. At this confluence grew the normal and medieval settlements, a natural administrative and trading centre for a number of converging valleys.

Little happened after the Romans left about AD 400 until the Normans arrived, but place names and Anglian remains in nearby churches prove the continued existence of communities in the area. Governing the district first from the former Roman site, the Normans soon moved to the present castle site on the end of a ridge between the rivers at their confluence. The town developed below the castle and for some distance west along the line of the present main street. In 1260 about 180 burage properties were listed, in addition to the mills, workshops, etc of an active and growing community. Excavations in 1980 proved habitation at the western end of Main Street by 1300.

Cockermouth developed as a typical medieval town, having a broad main street of burgesses’ houses, each with a burgage plot stretching to the usual ‘back lane’ – the Derwent bank on the north and Back Lane,(now South Street) on the south. This basic layout of streets and plots still largely remains one reason for the town’s inclusion as one of the fifty one ‘gem towns’ selected in 1965 by the British Council for Archaeology as being worthy of special care in preservation and development, ‘so splendid and so precious that ultimate responsibility for them should be a national concern'.

Syntheastwood

I know ive mentioned them before of there work but but here a reminder what they are








stablished in 2006 Synth Eastwood is a Dublin based music, art & technology group. Our aim is to present creative work from around the world in an atmosphere more akin to a gig than an exhibition. This is done by inviting artists of every field and level of experience to submit work based on a theme/brief we set. All relevant work is welcomed and exhibited at no cost* to the artist.

Since the groups first show in May of 2006, the number of artists submitting has doubled for each show. In addition to the submitted work bands are invited to play, along with the Synth Eastwood band who perform a set based on the show's theme. In fact all facets of the show even down to the layout and structure of the exhibition space are considered in relation to the brief.

Interactivity is another important aspect to our show and is implemented whenever possible allowing the audience to play with aspects of the music, visuals, and installations. This is put into action through the use of customised interactive controls and gismos.

ideas designs for postcards

This is a good idea of what style of I wont my cards to be. A mixture of illustrations and photography.

postcards