PPP Presentation 1.0

Produce and present a 7 minute Powerpoint/pdf presentation that communicates a reflective summary of your experiences on the course to date. You should aim to reflect on who you are as a learner and a designer as well as how the things you have experienced over the past nine months have affected your current aims and ambitions.


Preparation and Considerations

Previous Art/Experience?

• Sixth Form
• Bath College

How has this developed me as a person/designer?

• Practical
• Conceptual
• Expressive
• Engaging
• Broad range of skills and processes
• Allowed me to specialise in graphic design

Travelling

• Copenhagen
• Amsterdam
• Venice

Inspired me to go into a creative industry and find an artistic style that I like:

• Matisse
• Rothko
• Pollock
• Sue Doeksin

Magazines

• PYLOT because it's analogue

Music

Music Videos

Pixies - Blue Eyed Hex

Band art/Album art

Festivals

What have you learnt?

• A lot about typography
• Grids
• Illustrator
• Time management
• Better printing techniques
• Typesetting

What do you want to learn?

• Editorial 
• More binding techniques 
• Create opportunity for myself
• Get my work into the world
• Collaborate 

What mistakes have you made and how have you learned from them?

• As soon as I am set a brief I used to immediately resort to my laptop to create digital outcomes because I wanted to have something to show. I realised that I shouldn't be creating work during the early stages - I have started to stay away from my laptop and resort to pen and paper because I find it builds my concepts to make my work appropriate and to a better standard.

• Colour palette - Struggle to find colour schemes that work. However I am starting to use colours from other artists compositions that I like. 

• Typography - Wasn't confident with choosing a typeface that is relevant for the task. However my knowledge of typography is growing and I am beginning to recognise different fonts.

• Narrowing down my concepts to one final

How will this affect your future development?

• Making mistakes is positive

What are your strengths and how have you/will you develop them further? 

• Generating concepts
• Printing
• Analogue
• Proud of being proactive and booking my own inductions - laser cutting

What are your weaknesses and how do you intend to address these? 

• Adobe - Keep using it and I will learn more with experience. Also using Youtube tutorials is useful. 

What have you enjoyed? 

• Book binding
• Screen printing
• Monoprinting
• Photography Studio induction
• Laser Cutting

What have you disliked and why? 

• Wayfinding 
• Public Information Leaflet 

How does this affect your ambitions? 

• Don't want to design for corporate identities because I find it creatively draining 
• Although I may not like the brief I have started to make it personal to my creative style which makes the brief more engaging which results in a better outcome.

What did you want to get from the year? 

• Have a better understanding of the direction I would like to specialise in
• Develop all techniques
• Learn new processes - Be more confident with screen print, photography
• Start to work 3D
• Think more contemporary and subjective when appropriate
• Become more familiar with the colleges facilities

Have you achieved this? 

• More confident with Illustrator and InDesign due to workshops and practice
• Gained a passion for analogue techniques 
• Been proactive and moved away from my laptop to use print/laser cutting.

What have you discovered that you weren’t expecting?

• Pagination is more complicated than I originally thought
• More interest in typography 
• Favour analogue process still
• Trust myself