PPP End Of Module Evaluation

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

Communication -  I have began talking to other design related professionals, this is the first time I have done this, It is only a start and does need improving dramatically beginning 2^nd year.

 Reflection – On my practice and who I am as a designer. I have identified my manifesto towards design; this helped me greatly and has actually been used as a direction in my speaking from experience brief. This will only help more as I develop reflecting on my own practice.

2. What approaches to/methods of design production have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?

Starting the course I was set on Modernist graphic design principles as the truth, I didn’t question them and was set on creating reflections of my favorite designers work such as Antonio Carusone and Vignelli.

It has been a conscious decision and my criticisms of the limitations and similarity of Modernist work that has almost repelled me into a focus of experimentation, technology and expression.

Moving forward, I would like to take my time on the course to experiment greatly with materials, techniques and processes. I want to make this a key focus of me as a designer.

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

My connection between PPP and design practice has been incredibly strong. Without PPP I would have struggled on the speaking from experience. Reflecting on who I am and what I believe in has been brilliant and I only hop to improve to direct my work even more.

Identifying my own change in taste has been essential as I had began becoming disheartened with what I was creating. I had brought this topic up in my first tutorial with Simon, I responded to his advice and began broadening my range of inspiration; this has been a big part of my work this year.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?

I do need to develop my skills in communicating with other professionals; this can only be a good thing and I believe I will enjoy being more involved in the local design community. Opportunities will arrive as well as meeting new friends.

I need to become more involved with other design related events, such as art galleries. The more people I meet and events I become involved in will result in more opportunities.

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

Blogging - This has been a new revelation to me this year, as I am sure it has to the majority of the course. I have struggled blogging every day and I believe it has affected my submissions. I need to indeed start recording my practice daily, this will relieve the pressure I have experienced close to deadlines.

Experimentation - This has been a key focus for me, I have lacked in experimentation this year due the strict nature and mandatory requirements of some briefs. Next year I intend to stretch the limitations of set briefs to allow my own development as a designer. Experimenting in my own time is a way around this.

Creating Contacts - Talking to design professionals, design students, artists. Basically anyone that will enhance my contact list, anyone that may be able to help me or vice versa. This is important for my own development and future in the industry.

Personal Projects - Working in my own time without deadlines and mandatory requirements can only be a good thing. This will be the opportunity I need to develop as well create contacts. Focusing on my own interests will make the work enjoyable. 

Self driven design – I have started to do this recently, design how I want to design, do what I want to do, previously I have been stuck in a direction given to me by focusing on other designers manifesto’s. This had taken the expression out of my own work and it seemed I had become a soulless modernist. Now I have noticed this, I don’t think it will be possible to go back into such a predicament.