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.

Creative Report — Studio Brief 01 — OUGD502

Product Photography - OUGD502

Having only taken informal images on a mobile, it is now possible to say that there is a fair amount of work produced in second/first year that need some more complete images, that can also be proudly uploaded into the wilderness of the internet in the form of an online portfolio that will be built from the ground up by myself—dedicated to creating a more complete user experience and further establishing my own identity as a designer in not just education but in industry.

Using a DSLR gave a more professional feel to the work, compared to an iPhone camera, the images are a massive improvement. It adds a whole new aesthetic to the work and does it some justice.

Here's a quick comparison of an image taken on a mobile, and an image taken on a DSLR using a macro lens (Both processed in Photoshop):

Mobile:

DSLR:










As you can see, the quality of the images aren't even comparable. It gives a whole new perspective to the work and allows the viewer to see every little detail.

Up to now, the only projects that have these professional shots are all from this year. So the amount of content is limited, this may be an issue when developing my website and will have to be accounted for in the layout.

The Design Process:

Design in Context:

Amongst others that cannot be revealed just yet (Secret 7).

This will be a continuous part of my professional development throughout not just level 5/6 but the rest of my career. The skills learned using this process are invaluable to my self promotion as these images will be the basis of my online presence. Finally, it is much better to take your own shots of your work rather than to use mock-ups that do not necessarily reflect the best aspects of your work and often seem impersonal as often the same mockups are used by other creatives, the only exception being the creation of your own, however personally—this is only applicable if the work is online based and not physical.