Showing posts with label first year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first year. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

OUGD504 - PPP2 - Reflecting on Successes of First Year

1st October 2013

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:
  1. Successfully learnt how to screen print.
  2. Successfully learnt to work well in groups.
  3. Successfully started to recognise my own style.
  4. Felt that the project; 'A Brief History Of..' was our most successful and showed what we are capable of as designers.
  5. Successfully gained confidence in public speaking.
  6. Successfully improved work ethic and consistency in drive.
  7. Successfully gained confidence in giving and receiving critique.
  8. Started successfully applying learned theories.
  9. Successfully learnt more software skills.
  10. 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:
  1. Successfully gained lots of new skills in practical workshops.
  2. Successfully improved presentation skills.
  3. Successfully imroved on giving and taking critique.
  4. Successfully learning to be more independent and work more independently.
  5. Successfully improved research and development skills.
  6. Successfully started to improve time management.
  7. Can successfully work in and with groups/ specialisms.
  8. Successfully improved confidence and therefore motivation.
  9. Successfully improved theory/ context knowledge.
  10. Successfully recognising our own styles.
What do I want to succeed in this year?

  1. I want to learn how to code and get more into web design.
  2. I want to be more successful in my time management and motivation, even more so.
  3. I want to broaden my skills in print even further.
  4. I want to experiment and strengthen my design style.
  5. I want to learn more about different new media such as 3D printing and Augmented Reality.
  6. I want to be more successful as a designer independent from just uni work and be more freelance.
  7. I want to be more involved in industry and get more engaged with designers and studios.
  8. I want to be more successful in using type, grid and layout as it was one of my weak areas last year.
  9. I want to be more successful in big projects and improve my work ethic.
  10. I want to be more successful in social networking and set up a Behance, LinkedIn etc.