In the next 15 years - I hope to open my own business whether it related to Graphics or not and become a Freelance Graphic Designer too. If I was being ambitious I would obviously want to win the lottery and do everything I haven't done at 36 years old.
My Strengths Personally + Design Skills - I am fluent in English and Cantonese and I understand Mandarin too. I have a creative mind and I like to solve problems. I really like drawing and looking at how designs are communicated within different countries.
The Skills I would like to Develop- are my time management skills although I am organised and technical skills because most of the time I prefer hand drawings.
How my chosen projects will help me-
1. Albatross clothing : I chose this because I haven't come across a brief that requires me to design one of a kind products and I was interested in becoming a fashion designer before I knew about Graphic Design.
2. Batiste hair spray : This is another brief that requires me to design a unique one off limited edition dry shampoo hair spray. Batiste is widely known for being the best selling dry shampoo so to get the chance to be designing a limited edition illustration for a popular product is amazing.
Both these projects will help me develop my creative skills and create my own individual style that would need to be aesthetically pleasing to the consumers too. The briefs also fit into my beliefs and values which is to be different and not get bored of whatever I am doing.
Before I continue to blog about my new module , I want to summarise my previous design management and production module. I personally found the first half of the module really helpful because it allowed me to gain experience presenting to a client for a real live brief. The practice we had each week to present our ideas infront of our classmates built up my confidence to pitch my idea for my formal presentation. In the lessons we were able to find out the hierarchy of workers in a company such as the creative directors role, art director and junior designer and how the system would work in the work environment. I enjoyed this module and the next part of the module is going to be the business side of things which I am looking forward to learn about.
Chester Degree Show
For my Promotional Design module, we were asked to blog instead of creating workbooks like we did in the past. The following few pages are degree shows from different universities which is what our summer brief asked us to attend. Attending University of Chester final degree show was compulsary and I am inspired by what I saw. I am definately considering using 2D and 3D media to display my work for my final exhibition and maybe photo frames because I find that the dimension makes it very interesting to look at.
The only thing that I thought was a problem as a whole was that people who don't know Kingsway wouldn't know where the exhibition was because there wasn't anything to lead me to the room filled with the work. Whilst Leeds and Manchester degree shows had something that led me to the displayed work.
Final Degree shows 2012
Final Degree Shows
What I like most that was different from the other degree shows is that the students provided a business card and a media for us to read from telling me about what their purpose of the display was about. As I went to Manchester's degree show, I felt very confused by what they were doing because they didn't say what their brief was. I also like the variety of different types of displays I saw.
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