Wednesday 9 April 2014

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.

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