OUGF504 Studio Practice Evaluation

OUGD504 Studio Practice Evaluation

Since the first year I feel I am developing and growing as a designer,

 this module has allowed me to improve my design and language skills. 

When writing my blog posts I have tried to write in third person as 

much as possible so my writing will improve and appear more 

professional I would like to progress this in the next module as I am still 

learning, English is one of my weakest strengths and I am hoping at the 

end of this year I am confident with my writing skills.

Out of the 4 briefs I feel the most challenging was Brief 4 this being 

because it was live not only this but presenting to client ‘Only’ It was 

also challenging because I had never before tackled a digital brief, I 

really enjoyed this and would like to further develop my skills in this are. 

I am still unclear in the direction in which I want to take my practice but 

by testing the waters of different briefs I feel I will become closer to a 

strong mind-set and direction. Brief 4 was my most enjoyed brief out of 

the 4 because of the new challenge, it was great to have feedback from 

a professional that was extremely useful that I could even use for advice 

when tackling a digital brief again.

In this module my most successful brief I believe is Brief 3, I feel I kept to 

my time plan and developed and acted on my feedback well. I believe the 

reason this was most successful brief was because of my previous and current 

knowledge on book design and binding. From this brief I learnt how to do 

foiling this was probably one of my highlights from this module, I really 

enjoyed doing this and loved the effect it gave. I would like to try foiling on 

a larger scale by doing screen printing as for my experiments I just used the 

laminator.

My least successful moment is probably on Brief 2 although I feel my outcome 

was strong and overall successful – I did not do enough research to inform my 

idea this became apparent when I began to struggle with design direction and 

ideas. This has made me realise just how important it is to gather relevant and

 useful information without you cannot design or design well anyway.

This module I have managed my time better than last year, to do this at the 

beginning of every brief I used the time scale and split up what needed doing 

although occasionally I would stray from my plan it kept me motivated to 

complete it, not only that but it also gave me a brief idea of what needed to be 

done.

Overall this brief went considerably well, in the next module I wish to expand 

and further my skills in digital design as I believe I have still lots to learn about 

designing for web etc. I would also like to complete another logo task although

 this time round I didn’t do as I wished I believe the more experience and practice 

I have in this area I will learn and progress more. If I could do anything differently 

in the module it would be to use more primary research although I experimented 

a lot in this module I would like to do more to improve my skillset and knowledge.