In teams of 8, we discussed and reviewed our first year by what we considered to be our successes.
10 Things that went successfully in first year:
- Successfully learnt how to screen print.
- Successfully learnt to work well in groups.
- Successfully started to recognise my own style.
- Felt that the project; 'A Brief History Of..' was our most successful and showed what we are capable of as designers.
- Successfully gained confidence in public speaking.
- Successfully improved work ethic and consistency in drive.
- Successfully gained confidence in giving and receiving critique.
- Started successfully applying learned theories.
- Successfully learnt more software skills.
- Successfully gained the ability to generate ideas/ resolutions quicker and kept the pace going.
Top 10 successful achievements of the first year as agreed by the whole class:
- Successfully gained lots of new skills in practical workshops.
- Successfully improved presentation skills.
- Successfully imroved on giving and taking critique.
- Successfully learning to be more independent and work more independently.
- Successfully improved research and development skills.
- Successfully started to improve time management.
- Can successfully work in and with groups/ specialisms.
- Successfully improved confidence and therefore motivation.
- Successfully improved theory/ context knowledge.
- Successfully recognising our own styles.
What do I want to succeed in this year?
- I want to learn how to code and get more into web design.
- I want to be more successful in my time management and motivation, even more so.
- I want to broaden my skills in print even further.
- I want to experiment and strengthen my design style.
- I want to learn more about different new media such as 3D printing and Augmented Reality.
- I want to be more successful as a designer independent from just uni work and be more freelance.
- I want to be more involved in industry and get more engaged with designers and studios.
- I want to be more successful in using type, grid and layout as it was one of my weak areas last year.
- I want to be more successful in big projects and improve my work ethic.
- I want to be more successful in social networking and set up a Behance, LinkedIn etc.