End of module Self-Evaluation

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

• Illustrator skills has helped me to vector my art work which saves a lot of time when rearranging layouts and producing typefaces.
• Book making has helped me on 2 of the briefs in this module, its given me the basic understanding of book binding and hot dog folding.
• Grid and layout has helped me produce layouts in in design and has helped me understand the structure of news papers and magazines better

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

• Using photography to capture a range of primary research has helped me to jump start my idea process. This is also given me a starting point to work from or draw from.

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

• The use of type, grid and layout i have found especially useful for this project as i have made two hot dog book folds. 
• Photography it has helped me to capture a lot of research and given me a starting point to work from.
• Illustrator, being able to take something from my sketchbook and accurate draw it up to the right scales and getting it printed in a short space of time.

What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you adress these more fully?

• I realised i havent drawn properly in a long time and its been very hard to get back into it, i will practise my drawing more before i go onto illustrator.
• I play around with my layouts in illustrator and dont record them all.

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

• Draw more often before going onto software, i would expect my drawing skills to slowly return to me once again.
• Do more development instead of just rushing things and getting it done.
• Leave enough time to allow yourself to screen print and save money.
• Make decisions more quickly this will allow me to get things done and just generally work more efficiently, time is money. 
• Experiment with a few more stocks.

Attendance - 5

Punctuality - 5

Motivation - 3

Commitment - 4

Quantity of work - 3

Quality of work - 4

Contribution to group - 5

Interim Self-Evaluation

List 5 practical skills that you have developed. When have they proved useful?

1. Grid and layout, i found this useful while doing layouts in Indesign for the partner brief.
2. My illustrator skills have helped me to design much more accurately and quickly i found this particularly help full when producing my own typeface and vectoring it.
3. The Screen print workshops has helped me to design work which i can cheaply reproduce and it has made my work look much more professional.
4. Colour theory has helped me to put the right colours together and to produce colour schemes for my work.
5. Photography elective has helped me to take better photos and to use them in my design work. 

List 5 transferable skills that you have developed. What have you used them for?

1. Time keeping, making sure that i make my deadlines
2. Teamwork, this has helped me to work in a group successfully
3. Presentation skills has helped me to be confident when presenting my work in final crits
4. Organisational skills have helped me to work efficiently toward deadlines.
5. Analytical skills have helped to me evaluate my work and learn from my mistakes.

List 5 things that you have achieved. How they helped you progress?

1. Making books and selling them, it gave me a confidence boast in my own work
2. Designing a mailshot and sending it out succesfully
3. Creating my own typeface, helped me to understand type better
4. Cooking, it has helped me save a bit more money and it helps to have a good meal every now and then.

List 5 problems that you have had to face. How have you over come them?

1. Budgeting with money, still havent overcome it but im getting better and dealing with it.
2. CTS, not very good with written language but i have just worked harder to try and overcome it.
3. Time management, not enough hours in the day
4. Getting use to constantly blogging and not leaving it to the last week.
5. working with a group. 

List 5 facts that you have learnt. When have they been useful?

1. Dont be late on a monday, on a monday when im running late.
2. Dont put red and green together ever.
3. Using a good stock can make your work look much better.
4. The free bus is actaully quicker then walking, well the 50p bus now...
5. The weather is awful in Leeds always be prepared.

List 5 things that you will never do again. Why? 

1. Leave things to the last minute when it could save me a ton by screen printing it instead of having to do digital.
2. Not do enough research!
3. Take too long to make decisions
4. Try to attempt to do everything at once, ends up doing a half job on whatever your doing or the work being rushed to a low standard.  
5. Not spell check my work before print............

Which of these words describes the way you work as part of a group?

• Confident
• Decisive
• Informed
• Tolerant

Which of these qualities do you most appreciate about yourself?

• Honesty
• Commitment
• Punctuality
• Humorous

Which of these attitudes best describes the way you worked at the start of the brief group?

• Impulsive
• Informed
• Committed
• Passive

Which of these attitudes best describes the way you work now?

• Organised 
• Informed
• Committed
• Passive

Book fair

Rational:

Produce a series of 10 books to be sold at Leeds university book fair, these books must be somehow linked to the number 3 which was given to me.

My audience will be people who attend the bookfair which is a very diverse group of people so i will focus on a more humorous and design driven audience 

Crit and Feedback:

• What stock to use? using something other the plain white might make the letters look less harsh against the brown background. Keep in mind the thickness of the paper when u fold the book.
• Needs a bit of playing around with the layout and potential colour scheme.
• What size paper to use? A4 could work well with the amount of information you are relaying.

Action:

• Use Antique white stock to make the letters and images look less harsh against the background
• use A4 size paper in order to make sure the layout look right and there isnt too much empty space.
• Experiment with different colour schemes.

Book Fair

I like how my final product of my book came out as but if i could change anything i would stick to a different stock the antique white made the working look less harsh but it also reduced the visibility of a lot of my text a bit. I would also of used different background colours, the dark brown grey and white scheme works but some of the other colours were much more playful and would fit better with the humorous theme i was going with. The book did look a bit bare inside in the end would of helped if i added a bit more content into it.  

What is a line

Brief Title:

A line inspired typeface and photo journal. 

Background:

Look at street Art and graffiti

Typefaces which have a physical line in or which consist of line.

Look at black and white photography and other urban photographers

Considerations:

Different ways of constructing a line and integrating it into a typeface and how to give an idea of a connected series of events through photography. 

The balance between a line and a photo.

Mandatory Requirements:

Consider the "A connected series of events, actions or developments." 

A typeface

A type of Photo Journal 

Some drawing

Deliverables:

A3 print outs of typeface

any size or type of photo journal.

Tone of Voice:

Serious and professional

Audience:

Yourself 

I am very happy with the outcomes i produced from this project, i got to create my own typeface for myself based on Amsterdam, the only problems with this typeface i found was i put the N infront of the M in the alphabet layout, my least favourite letter is the N as well which if i had more time would of been good to keep working on. The hot dog book had a few problems i had encountered, the typeface wasnt that readable within long sentinces, it was good for phrases but this limited me to the amount of information other then photos i put in the book. I would of liked to put relevant information about each photo which would personally described the relevance of each photo.