On reflection of the module & the briefs I completed within the timeframe I am very proud of my third year work & the standard of my work throughout some of my work. Therefore this leaves me finishing with a portfolio of work that I am proud of & therefore I will be more confident while presenting it to perspective employers etc...
Although I did enjoy the independence of the year I am not 100% sure if setting my own briefs was a good option for myself as this although I feel good work has come out of them because I chose deadlines I wasn't strict enough with them to make sure I was on track. A brief that I felt this was a key part of was my tea branding project as I believe now that I spent too long on it as this was the main present brief while completing a lot of live briefs & therefore it was very broken.
I believe that my interests have stayed within packaging & branding & I have even slight entered the world of installation on a minor scale that I enjoyed throughly. Although, I feel I have developed these two areas largely within this year & therefore my work has benefitted from it.
A strength that I feel I have developed is working with concepts. I feel like all my work has progressed throughout the year getting strong & strong & considering every aspect of the design to make sure it corresponds with the concept. I now have a basis of starting point when talking about my work which is something I never had before & I feel this is why I struggled talking about it.
Although I enjoyed the live briefs and been giving the chance of working with professionals. I feel that I took on too many live briefs & now upon reflection I wish I would have not taken part in one or two just as I believe that my own set briefs would have benefitted. On the plus side these workshops they pushed you out of your normal ways of working. Also you did get a lot of work done in a short amount of time, which really did show me about the time scales of my set working plans maybe was too long.
Time management has been quite a weakness this year & this is something I would have said that would have been a lesser thing to worry about as I thought I would be head strong & had great ideas about how to work around it at the start of the year. I feel that my time management has never suffered over the first two years and I feel this could be due to working & setting my own briefs I have been lenient with my deadlines so I can make something better. I definitely think that my briefs could have been shortened in timeframe after looking back on the work I did within one day workshops. This is something I will never do again as the last minute struggle is definitely not work the stress & the moto never do tomorrow what you can do today, is a strong ideology that I will take on board. This is due to working within a studio environment could be more stressful if I don't keep on top of my day to day plans.
Collaborations this year have been somewhat enjoyable. I feel that this is due to us all realise that this is what happens in the industry and therefore we need to be able to build the strong working ethic with other and let ego of our egos if something is better than your idea. Although i didn't work on any collabs from set briefs of myself I worked in 4 groups within the live briefs. I learnt who I liked working with & who I didn't and how to work best is to have regular meet ups with regular crits & team talks.
I feel this year my finishings & processes may have lacked. This is something I have proposed with PPP as I want to create some well finished business cards for the end of year show. Although I have considered them as part of my outcome majority of the time it would have been irrelevant to the brief. I have also had the chance to work on a larger scale this year with using paper crafting to install a crafted base for the perfume to be presented within.
Overall I feel like I am much more confident in my own abilities and as long as I start of with a good base then it will always finish well. I am not looking forward to the next stage within design, hopefully a job & creating something for the end of year show which is very exciting as I don't know if I will be creating something of scale or packaging at this moment of time.
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