Evaluation for Design Practice.

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

Firstly a skill that I have gained from this collaborative brief is from my partner, Caroline. As she has very capable skills when it comes to all things digital and the use of software, which i can do to some extent but not as good as her. So I really feel that I have learnt a thing or two from the use of her skills and how we applied them to the brief.

However my skills in illustrator were beneficial to this brief and this is where I found that my skills have developed the most, when producing imagery from both our design sheets and conveying our message appropriately.

Also when working with a partner it really inspires you to work harder within your work as someone else is relying on your design work. And with working so well together we could voice our own opinions with each others work and communitcated well so that we both had an equal share of the work.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

We started this brief by firstly researching in to the brand of O2 and what they do for thier customers that makes them better connected with them. So we looked in to their methods of communicating with their customers and the graphics devices they used to persuade potiential new customers to thier network. We also had a little trip to one of the O2 shops for some primary research, even thought the sales assisstants proved to be quite unhelpful.But in doing so we managed to collect some really helpful leaflets and abit more about their brand identity.

We also gained alot from the use of the internet and researching in to what O2 had done previously when promoting their brand. This enabled us to be informed on what they had already done before so that we could come up with a completely fresh idea.

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

Our time managment skills were definately beneficial to this brief and in doing so when things went wrong, like when our laser cutting didn't work out so well, we had the time to correct this efficently.

Also as we both shared the interest within screen print it allowed us to use this workshop effectivley within our project.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

Pehaps we could have had abit more research contained within our work and not just on our blogs. And abit more development of our early designs and to have produced alot more screenprints of our final idea.

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

• If I ever get the chance to do some more laser cutting I must remember that sometimes there are problems with registration that will occur if your using a screen printed image.
• To be more organised with digital files.
• Perhaps to have a had abit more research within our work and not just on our blogs.
• To update my blog abit more regularly.
• To be more decisive when set new briefs and not to be afraid of things going wrong. As you learn from your own mistakes.
  

6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

Attendance - 4

Punctuality - 4

Motivation - 4

Commitment - 4

Quantity of work produced - 4

Quality of work produced - 4

Contribution to the group - 4