1. What skills have you learnt throughout this project and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
During this project I have learnt all about the context of where our art comes from. This has helped me to put into perspective the vibes that designs can give out, dependant on their inspiration or place in history. I have applied these same type of lecture-depth understanding to something I love and used it to create my publication.
2. What approaches to/methods of design production have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
For my publication, I thought about the design production first, as my strength and passion is in pop up books and paper engineering. I chose to fit my subject, my other passion, to this paper concept - Disneyland. Because Disneyland is aimed at younger audiences/ is 'fun' this made the pop up book undoubtedly the best route to go. However due to lack of time management, and probably lack of confidence in my idea, this had to be reworked. I regrettably eventually went for a rather weakly designed version of a 'carousel' book. I resorted to this because the link to the carousel would link into Walt Disney's ride at the park - 'the carousel of progress' - it would make perfect sense. But I think my execution of it was rather poor and disappointing.
2. What approaches to/methods of design production have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
For my publication, I thought about the design production first, as my strength and passion is in pop up books and paper engineering. I chose to fit my subject, my other passion, to this paper concept - Disneyland. Because Disneyland is aimed at younger audiences/ is 'fun' this made the pop up book undoubtedly the best route to go. However due to lack of time management, and probably lack of confidence in my idea, this had to be reworked. I regrettably eventually went for a rather weakly designed version of a 'carousel' book. I resorted to this because the link to the carousel would link into Walt Disney's ride at the park - 'the carousel of progress' - it would make perfect sense. But I think my execution of it was rather poor and disappointing.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I have discovered that I can work fast and efficiently under pressure, and that my academic writing skills are not as bad as I thought! I don't particularly want to capitalise on working under pressure, but will definitely work fast and more efficiently from the beginning of the project.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these for the future?
Weaknesses I have identified is that I am not being disciplined enough to keep up to date on daily blog posts. I am also very very poor at time management and in this instance I failed to ask if I was unsure and fell behind with progress because of lack of confidence in the idea. In the future, I will definitely ask for help and work through my idea rather than soldiering on with something that I have limited.
5. Identify 5 things you will do differently next time and what you expect to gain from doing these:
- Blog everything as I go so it doesn't mount up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Leave room for things to go wrong
- Come to terms with a failing idea quickly and efficiently and put in place steps to make it work or move on from it.
- Not be afraid to ask for help - if fellow students are also stumped, ask another informed individual - any advice is good advice when you're really stuck.
- Experiment more with different materials and mediums to add diversity to my designs
6. How well do you think you've done/5?
Attendance
4.99
Punctuality
4.9
Motivation
3
Commitment
3
Quantity of work produced
5
Quality of work produced
3
Contribution to the group
5
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