The presentation should include:
- Reflection on who you are as a designer and learner - how do these intertwine?
- How have the things I've learned and experienced over the past two years informed my current aims, ambitions, and practice?
- Identify creative concerns if any
- Touch on personal aims
- Include professional ambitions I want to explore over summer and during level 6
- Reflect on my personal aesthetic and showcase me as an individual practitioner.
- Include briefs that I excelled in and ones I wasn't as successful in - BE HONEST
- Include examples of the work I mention
- Support the development of my personal brand
- Communicate my skills, abilities, creative concerns and professional competence
- Allow me to identify and market myself to appropriate sectors of the creative industry
- Draw up examples of contemporary design that relate to my practice. Pieces of work I have seen, things I would like to be a part of or want to achieve e.g the print fair
- Focus on my learning journey
- 5 Minute Presentation
- Submitted on 10th March & PDF upload on eStudio
- PPP Blog
Things to address:
- My change in approaches and learning style - reflecting my personal confidence and change - insecurities as a designer.
- How intertwined my personality is with my design - how I found that through the only projects I found personally successful (L4 Music Brief, PPP Brief, L5 Book Poster, L5 Response, Postcards)
- Analytical - writing is easy for me and I've moved away from this. Stepped out of my comfort zone in finding comfort in being able to justify everything as it wasn't working for me, and instead focus on the outcomes. Aim to be able to combine these again without it being detrimental to the project - time management issues.
- Anxious/Emotional designer
- How I view design as an art form. Relates to art & design upbringing - Creative Report
- Personal designer - possibly why I struggle to find a TA - why my TA always revolves around my demographic. Aim to explore a project where it's not this TA, but happy with this being my skillset.
1. Reflection on who you are as a designer and learner - how do these intertwine?
- Emotional designer - anxious.
- Visual leaner - naturally seek out justifications for what I'm doing and see relationships/patterns within work.
- General feeling of failure throughout L4 even though my grades were high seconds made me realise being a visual and analytical learner wasn't working for me. Although good it didn't make me feel any sense of self-achievement.
- Shift to kinaesthetic learner - being more hands on. Using analog processes, using visuals that don't have a 100% functional purpose but being symbolic. Built confidence and relationship with my work.
- I want all work to be my own - can't use other people's images, etc.
2. How have the things I've learned and experienced over the past two years informed my current aims, ambitions, and practice?
- I aim to trust my practice more - don't need my work to tick all the boxes and just do what I want to explore. Not putting as much academic pressure on myself - moving forward being more creative.
- Want to collaborate more with other creatives - really enjoyed
- Want to find professional practices I fit into - want experience as an intern/work experience. Somewhere that will want a more expressionist approach.
- Aim to continue with twilight sessions and learning many techniques - did ceramics so far. Next want to do welding to hopefully begin selling jewellery.
- Want to create my own brand - intertwine my personal life with my practice and create a brand on instagram most likely as my friends do.
3. Identify creative concerns if any
- Accessing facilities when I leave - not sure how I'd be able to progress.
- Finding a place to intern at that would be right for me - don't want to feel beat down by real life work - want to do this is L6 as I want to build my portfolio in summer.
- Skillset - don't think I'm as strong and well versed in graphic design softwares out of Photoshop and inDesign.
4. Touch on personal aims
- Touched upon in Q2.
5. Professional ambitions I want to explore over summer and L6.
- (in Q2) Build a personal brand and start "mass-producing" to sell.
- More collaborative projects - especially with established professionals.
- Want to do a live brief I don't find interesting - push myself.
- Work experience
6. Reflect on my personal aesthetic and showcase me as an individual practitioner.
- Bespoke typefaces.
- Playful - flower shapes, typesetting.
- Clean/minimalist - front covers.
- Letterpress, screenprinting, stickers.
7. Include briefs that I excelled in and ones I wasn't as successful in - BE HONEST
- Successful: L4 Type and Logotype, L4 Music, L4 PPP, L4 Map. L5 Book poster, Postcard, L5 Responsive, L5 Creative Report. (Select a few only)
- Not as successful: L4 Book cover, L5 Book brief, - almost as great but feel disappointed in not letting it achieve its full potential.
Presentation Format:
- inDesign doc: how I always lay out my work because my approach to presenting is very minimalist.
- Colours: greys, white, greens - natural, minimalism, want the images to pop.
- Font: Source Sans Pro or Times New Roman - my favourite fonts. Include fonts I've made myself.
- Larger images than text - only small bulletpoints.
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