Feedback Preference Session — OUGD602

As a quick exercise in the morning, we discussed what we want to see in future feedback sessions, and also what we wouldn't like to see. Overall everyone had the same final points as shown from my group (group 4) list sown below, these will be abided to when attending the crit sessions in the future:

Crit time: Thursday November 17th 10am
Group one
1. Start / Stop/ Continue
2. Be prepared and bring questions
3. Scribe and time keeper
4. Everyone say something positive and negative


Crit time: Thursday November 17th 1pm
Group two
Your crit rules:
1.Scribe
2. Key points
3. Constructive criticism
4. Set goals
5. Everyone give feedback


Crit time: Thursday November 17th 3pm
Group three
Your crit rules:
1. Have work to talk about
2. Sit at table
3. Questions you want answers
4. Everyone should say something
5. Don't make it too long or boring


Crit time: Friday November 18th 10am
Group four
Your crit rules:
1. At least one positive and one negative comment
2. Prepare questions and discussion points
3. Scribe
4. Come open minded
5. Practical work


Crit time: Friday November 18th 1pm
Group five
Your crit rules:
1. Bring the brief
2. Bring up to five questions
3. Physical work/mind maps/notes/research
4. Be enthusiastic
5. Be aware of the time

Evaluation — PPP2 — OUGD502

Creative Report Design Boards — Studio Brief 01 — OUGD502

In order to make myself more organised—rather than blogging about the individual briefs, I opted to create design boards, this just felt as if the project was more complete and becomes clearer upon submission.

Below are the design boards for the creative report.

Design Strategy Design Boards — Studio Brief 02 — OUGD502

In order to make myself more organised—rather than blogging about the individual briefs, I opted to create design boards, this just felt as if the project was more complete and becomes clearer upon submission.

Below are the design boards for the Design Strategy.

Email Exchange — Studio Brief 01 — OUGD502

Below is a brief screenshot as proof of the back-and-forth emails I had with Michael a couple of weeks ago.

Identity — Studio Brief 02 — OUGD502

My identity is simply the same as it was last year. This is because to avoid having to change every aspect of my online identity would be a bad idea at this stage in time. This s not the only reason for keeping it the same as I am very happy with the current logo and strategy. 

Everyone that has commented on it has only commented positively, there has been little to none critiquing of the identity so this furthering my reasons for not altering anything as this is how people see me now—to change it would jeopardise the exposure the current identity has.

Social Platforms — Studio Brief 02 — OUGD502

As a self initiated task, it became clear that my name wasn't out there enough. To fix this, I have began posting more to platforms like Instagram and linking with professionals through LinkedIn.

This goes hand-in-hand with my website. All external sites will like to my website, and vice verse, thus creating a more seamless experience for potential clients to find out more about me and my work.

Instagram:

Instagram has been a great tool in terms of connecting with professionals, the artist who I interviewed for the creative report came from this very technique. Averaging out around 40 likes and rising on each image posted, I only have higher hopes that I can gather a good following of industry professionals and engage further with them.

This also helps gain contacts with people in other aspects of the creative industry, such as architectural and many others—further spreading my name on the internet.

LinkedIn:

A pretty standard tool for all professionals out in the field looking for potential employment is LinkedIn.

Linking with potential work experience employers has been my goal within using LinkedIn. Not just connecting with fellow peers from university, but past graduates who may view my profile and gain some interest with my work—meaning if I choose to contact them in the future, they will more than likely be aware of who I am or even recognise my name, furthering my chances of gaining that much needed internship or work experience.