STUDY TASK 10 - PRESENTATION PREPARATION

Produce and present a 10 minute Powerpoint/pdf presentation (including 2 minutes for questions) that communicates a reflective summary of your experiences on the course to date. You should aim to reflect on who you are as a learner and a designer as well as how the things you have experienced over the past nine months have affected your current aims and ambitions. You should also identify creative concerns, personal aims and professional ambitions that you intend to explore further over the Summer and during level 6 of the programme

Research Sources/Further Information

Your own personal development as an individual and as a designer is affected by all aspects of your life. This is an opportunity to reflect on the experiences from the past nine months that have informed the decisions that you have made/are making about your future development.

The ability to reflect upon your personal development can help you to gain confidence in your abilities as well as identify areas of strength, focus, ambition and improvement.

What have you learned and what do you want to learn? What mistakes have you made and how have you learned from them? How will this affect your future development? What are your strengths and how have you/will you develop them further? What are your weaknesses and how do you intend to address these? What have you enjoyed and why? What have you disliked and why? How does this affect your ambitions? What did you want to get from the year? Have you achieved this? What have you discovered that you weren’t expecting?

Requirements

Your presentation should last 8 minutes and allow 2 minutes for questions to be asked
 
(you will be penalized for a presentation that is shorter or longer than this).

Although the content, tone and conclusions of this reflective process should reflect your own experiences, personality and ambitions, you should aim to focus on the learning journey and how this has informed the decisions that you are making about your future. To this end you should use examples of your own work, creative skills and interest in the contemporary field of design as part of your presentation. 

1 x 8 -10 minute Powerpoint presentation. Evidence of critical engagement with personally relevant contemporary design practice in the form of a blog. 

What have I learned ? 

working with clients
working to strict deadlines
collaborating
Design Processes
Branding
Design for Print 
web design

What do you want to Learn?

Producing things to a proffesional standard.
Photoshop
Web Design
Lay Out
More about print
Experience the Industry.
TYPE

What mistakes have you made and how have you learned from them? 

Time management has been a problem with some briefs this meant I was not able to push them as fully as I would of liked. If I manage my time better I will find it allot easier to juggle all the briefs at once. Getting into a routine will help me next year. I will try to designate days towards each module to make sure there is an even balance.

I made the mistake of not booking print slots with james which in turn limited how I could produce my work to a high standard. To be fair I am fed up of just printing stuff out so it was nice to use the other facilities.

Not allowing room for fuck ups - results in a poor design outcome. - little errors make a difference.


How will this affect your future development? 

You cant learn without making mistakes to correct. Once you get something wrong once you tend not to do it again. NUMBER YOUR DESIGN BOARDS.

What are your strengths and how have you/will you develop them further? 

Screen Printing
Trying New Processes and Experimenting for new processes
Laser Cutter.
Illustration
My concept generation has developed allot since the start of the course.

What are your weaknesses and how do you intend to address these? 

My Brain doesn't wake up until around 11, hour and a half wasted in the morning. Try get to bed early
Layout Design Boards - Practice
Type

What have you enjoyed and why?

Screen Printing - therapeutic and fun and exciting
Crafting - I love hands on stuff, getting fed up of being in front of the computer.
Freedom of picking my own briefs/
Competition Briefs - Exciting even though was disappointed with the outcomes.

Branding myself - fun to come up with ideas.

What have you disliked and why?

The amount of work that has to be done simultaniously - sometimes  gets too much and you start to hate everything.

How does this affect your ambitions?

It doesn't affect me if anything it will probably help me.

What did you want to get from the year? 

Better presentation Skills
Better understanding of illustrator and photoshop
Better time Management skills
Essay Writing Skills

Have you achieved this? 

Yes I think I have developed them all.

What have you discovered that you weren’t expecting? 

Get to the End of the Year