Studio Brief 4: Initial ideas

To come up with ideas for things that first years need help with, I have looked back at my own (and ongoing) experience as a first year.

New experiences

• Living away from home
• Living with strangers
• Regular alcohol intake
• Food shopping
• Meeting new people
• Making friends
• Budgeting
• Cooking every day

Course related:

• Busy schedule
• Starting a graphic design course
• Using programs such as Illustrator and Indesign
• New printing methods
• Crits
• Heavy workload
• Presenting work regularly
• Presentations

Difficulties I have overcome

• Having no confidence in my work
• Being timid in trying new printing methods eg screen printing and the digital printing facility

Difficulties I have yet to overcome

• Time management
• Presentations
• General organising
• Living with strangers
• Reading design books
• Checking design blogs regularly
• Making the most of college's printing facilities

From these points I want to focus on these subjects to figure out which I want to take forward:

• Presentations
• Time management
• Organisation
• Confidence in new printing methods

These four seem common to a lot of first years from what people have said, and things that stick out to me as things that need guidance.