End of Module Evaluation 405

Coaster Evaluation

I was very pleased with the outcomes from this brief.

One of the main things that went well during this brief was the screen printing as it allowed me to use gold ink and also helped give it that finished product look which is what I aimed for. The designs of the coasters came  out well, but one thing I might have done differently had I had more time would be the composition on the 'Flavour' coaster as I think that on some of them it can be a slightly visually unpleasing or unsettling at the most.

I would have also done more varieties of coasters and therefore linked it to some sort of company or distributors so I could do more with it, such as online versions and Facebook and twitter pages.

Typo-Gateaux Evaluation

The Typo-gateaux brief had went fairly well considering that we initially did not have many strong ideas.

One of the main things that went well about it was the actual baking itself as the cake turned out fine and was easy to cut to shape, other things that went well we things such as the colours when made from the food colouring.

Some of the things that didnt go so well was the cutting out of the actual letters for the Adobe Software icons, this was due to the icing being not as easy to cut as paper or card.

Overall I think that everyone contributed to the brief equally but I had more input into it with the concept of the design and when cutting the letters.

Research Crit

The Initial crit for this brief to present our research on given topics went very well considering that everyone had a decent amount of work to show in the crit and that people had actually started to look into things that were more directed towards their interest.

How to Evaluation

The how to brief had overall went well.

The main issues that we came across was the group not being able to decide on an idea and also not being organised enough, as we had to split into 2 different groups due to this. Apart from this minor hiccup me and Roxy picked up the brief and I believe we created a decent outcome to the issue given to us.

Some things that I think went well was how people interacted and reacted to the cards, as this was one of the main selling points of the cards, this was also the highlight of the presentation, speaking of which I think that the presentation was also one of the things that went well as I think that it shown and explained everything that it needed to about 'Jargon Beaters' and the Cards.

One of the things that didnt go so well was when I was getting the cards printed as we had initially wanted them to be printed double sided but the images were not lining up so we had to stick 2 sides together to make the cards, with that sin mind they ended up looking professional still.

End of Module Evaluation

This is the end of module evaluation sheet we were required to fill out. I think that this is a good thing to do as it helps me to express my thoughts about how I think I've done and what I thought about the module.

Message and Delivery Evaluation

I think that this brief went went overall as I think it was one of the first briefs where we could implement some of the things we had been learning about type in our Context Of Practice & Design Principle sessions.

For the research part of the brief I think that I would have used a different story having known what we was going to be using them for as I found it hard to find things that were not overly disturbing or sincere and also there was not much leeway to work with keeping to the initial story so I had to go off onto a tangent. I would also have tried to look for more actual graphic design research as I mainly concentrated on actual facts and images which I still found challenging to find things that I could use to interpret in a design form.

One of the things that worked from the crits we had about the poster was the use of a bright pink as it accentuated who the target audience was and also appealed to the target audience. The use of a font which had a bold and dashed version of it helped to emphasis the idea of cosmetic surgery and how it they marks patients with pen before surgery. One of the things that didn't work so well was that the poster could sometimes be seen to be offensive or stereotype women and what they get done in terms of cosmetic surgery and stereotypes cosmetic surgery in general.

For the Distribution part of the brief I decided to take into account some of the feedback received during the anonymous crits about using glossy paper to accentuate the idea of 'over-the-top look, and artificialness'.

One of the things that I would have done different given more time would be to print out the mailshots on double sided glossy paper at a professional printers as I printed them on my own printer on 2 separate photo paper. I would also change the one of the mailshots as I think looking back at it now it looks like I had chosen a image with low resolution to work from but it was in fact a filter that I applied.

One of the things that worked really well was the envelope printed on double sided paper instead of 2 pieces  of standard paper as it made everything look professional and like a final product, I would also say the getting  the poster reprinted on high quality satin added to this. Things that didnt work so well was when printing on my printer some of the colours came out different to what they needed to be and I think this made the mailshots look separate but still part of a set but not as in conjunction as I wanted.