PPP Blog

Adam - Design for Print and Web

Put It In Print
Info pack / publication - mind map inside
Screen printed - effort?
Aimed at anyone in college who would need advice on printing
Card game themed website
Perhaps a conflicting idea with the audience - adding drinking games with traditional family card games could cause problems

Me (Feedback given from other) - Design for Web

Create a page spread and focus on content specifics?
Minimal aesthetic would definitely work well
Maybe think about dividing categories and sub categories to eliminate cofusion of navigating
Scrolling family tree is interesting
Content: Origins, timeline, actors - cars?
Get your websites drawn out so you can get good
Website audience? Who and why would someone use your website?
An info graphic would work well for the family tree thing, would make it easier to view a lot of information.
Having one large page for all of the actors could make navigation difficult - lots of information to put in one place - might be hard for the user to find a particular actor.

Abi - Design for Print

T-shirt packaging, screen printed t-shirt, information printed onto the box. Visually interesting.
Fairly complex, might you be doing too much?
Interesting way to communicate your information
Try taking a step back, what do you want to communicate, and create a solid concept

Alex - Design for Print

Print Info pack
Lots of books, bound by two pieces of wood a laggy-band. Too much work?
You want to do a lot of stuff, I feel like it might be overwhelming in the month we have to create it.
I feel, after looking at your design context blog, that you could really benefit from some more idea development. Your concept seems to have come from someone else's idea - almost identically.
Good primary research, now apply it!

Yearsley - Design for Print

Concept: Processes booklet // Survival Guide for Printing. Examples of different processes, different stock considerations, the whole shabang. Stick it all in a fancy box - like a survival guide.
Sounds like a lot of stuff, perhaps a more simple approach could be effective.
Talking about approachable printers is a grand idea for new students! Very helpful!

Laura

Concept: Infopack - what you need to know, to get started in print. Aimed at students.
To be bound using a paper fastener - interesting concept! Useful, flexibility and diversity being able to cater to different needs.
Print is Dead // Print is Alive - ace! I love the over printing idea, really interesting!
Simple. Effective. Grand.
The texture touch 'n feel idea is a great way to engage the audience, something different new and interesting.

10 things I've gained from the first year;

Passed 1st Year,
Living alone/learnt to be independent,
Learnt to cook,
Printing resources/learnt screen print/workshops - new skills, foundations to build upon this year,
Developed digital awareness, new skills with profession standard software,
Learnt how to be more focused answering the brief correctly,
Developed my level of confidence, the ability to stand by my work,
Improved personal and professional practice,
Improved literacy skills,
Balanced a part time job, work, and a social life as well as the course,
Learnt to integrate work shop skills into practice,
Developing a system, learning which brief is more important/urgent, prioritising.

10 Successes as a class, collectively

Pick out 10 traits you want to be successful at this year; (post/publish on PPP blog).

To develop my understanding of typography,
To broaden my skill set in terms of design process,
To improve, out of college, my financial position, learn to budget, and stick to it.
Improve my time management, this year matters, it counts towards my degree, so I feel it's important to focus of planning ahead of time,
I want to improve the final quality of my work, apply more techniques to my work to make look more professional, for example, applying spot varnish.
I feel that I can improve the motive behind my work, rather than only creating a solution to a problem using Graphic Design, I want my work to be an extension of the individual to whom my work is aimed at, allowing to connect with them on a deeper level.
I want to improve my English, by this, I mean I'm dreadful at essays. I think I did poorly last year. I know I can do better If I apply myself.
I want to create some sort of signature, sort of a style, a timeless visual representation which I can implement into my work which separates me from other designers.
To fix my Mac, I broke it.
To expand on my level of visual research, explore it.

Presentation Feedback

Useful Feedback:

I received a lot of feedback mentioning I spoke incredibly fast, trying to fit everything in, teaming with my accent, it may have been difficult to understand, speak slower, and account for time in future,
Someone also mentioned that I had issues with the timing of my presentation, I wasn't in control of the slides, so I had to keep up with them, rather than stopping and expanding.
The introduction to the presentation was entertaining and in the style of a James Bond film, which set the theme for the presentation,
Pick out the more important parts, rather than focusing on the timeline,
Focus more into the Graphic Design side of the Bond films, such as the posters,

Could be Useful Feedback

Ego

Well researched,
The introduction to the presentation was entertaining and in the style of a James Bond film, which set the theme for the presentation,
Strong Powerpoint,
Very good enthusiasm in the subject, it was interesting to hear about,
Memorised very well,

3 Objectives, how to improve that summer brief from what I've been told;

Speak slower, and clearer to deliver the information, so people can understand, learn more from my presentation, getting a better insight from the world of 007.
Include some more imagery and less text, reduce the amount of reading in the presentation, and try to include more images in the slide show.
Try to focus on more important events, rather than focusing on the timeline in full. Perhaps cutting down the information on each individual Bond actor, and including more exciting info graphs which convey the information in a much more elegant manner.

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