OUGD502: PPP2- Plans for Third Year

After second years PPP I have put a lof of thought into how I plan to work with third year. I have learnt alot about business and conducting myself as a professional and I am very proud of the work that I have produced this year. My plans for the third year are to make lots of contacts, go on plenty of studio visits and become more confident with talking to people. I plan to fill my summer with placements to improve on my skills that I have acquired this year, I particularly want to improve on my web design skills. I hope that this time next year I can look back on this evaluation and will be able to say that I have achieved all of these things. I am really looking forward to third year and becoming a better designer.

OUGD504: Design Production - Workshop

This morning we were asked to come up a list of 10 successes we have had since being on the course. This is a way for us to reflect on the year and also for the tutors to understand what we enjoyed so it can be done more often. 

We came up with:

1. Learnt about type
2. Guest lecturers
3. Independent learning
4. More comfortable presenting work
5. Improved on group projects
6. New skills
7. Essay writing
8. More understanding of briefs
9. Blogging
10. Time management

After we made our list as a small group we reflected and came up with a list a collective number of groups. The whole class gave their successes and we generalised them to get a more accurate list. 

1. Presentation skills
2. Feedback
3. Workshops
4. Independent
5. Research/Development
6. Understand time management
7. Working in/with groups
8. Confidence
9. Theoretical writing
10. Understand personal style

I think this was an important task as it gave us scope to look back over our time on the course and reflect on things which went well. I also feel it was a great way to commend ourselves as a year group for our hard work and overall development. 

OUGD405 - How To... Self Evaluation

For our first brief for Design Process was quite difficult. I was put in a group of 5 people and we were given the word 'routine'. As a starting point we all researched different variations of the word routine. I was given safety routines to look into further. I chose to look into the clean up routine after a natural disaster. 

My town was devastated by flooding in June this year, a disaster which has occurred more than once in the last century. I know first hand how this experience can affect families as my own lost their home. When it came time for the group crit I explained my research and received a good response from my fellow group members. After everyone in my group had presented their research we were given the brief 'make someone try something new'. With my research this question was very hard to achieve as it would mean getting people to volunteer in areas of the UK and abroad. As a group we decided that my research did not present enough avenues to go into and therefore chose another persons research. 

The subject we chose to go into was Fitness routines, which Ewan had looked into. Trying to come up with new and innovative ways to get people to exercise was very hard as it had been done, or tried to be done, before. We chose to target out project on students as we have a direct connection to a large group of them. 

With this focus we designed an easy step-by-step guide to 5 simple exercises for students to do in day-to-day life. We called our brand NUYU. I think our final product was very good and looked the part but that we could have put more time and effort into another form of media (an app). As a group we worked very well together with no disagreements at all but I think like all group work communication was the main problem.

If we were to do this project again I think we would have looked into designing an app instead of a printed poster as students are more likely to engage with a digital form of media rather than print. Overall I am happy with the quality of work we produced but think it would have been better to have had more structure to the group and roles.

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