OUGD402: Studio Brief 2 - Its up to you! evaluation.

Overall I was happy with the way that the book I had created came out. I thought it represented well, the love I have developed for book making this year and the experience that I have gained from doing this. I also felt that it showed my love for print, and want to try new things in this sector such as screen printing which I really enjoyed doing for this project.

Although I had seen others and saw that they had created a pack with a solid representation or identity for themselves I felt that I was just not able to do that at this point. I'm very young within the design world, having this being my only year studying graphic design, and so I felt that I was very far off in having an identity. In fact this year I had used specifically to learn about the world of graphic design, spending more time trying lots of different things out rather than refining the things that I liked, and could efficiently and effectively do. Therefore the book I have created mirrors this, I have created an illustrative book, as one thing I know is I prefer using illustrations rather than editing photos, however I have no distinctive illustrative style, or way in which I like to produce work, and so as a result all the pages I have made are of a different style.
The content of the book is more so an information pack about what I have learnt rather than an information pack about myself. Im not quite sure, where I stand within the graphic design world right now, and so I wanted to share my experience of learning this year.

Downsides of the book were mostly in the early production process, I had originally wanted to print the book on recycled paper, as I have a new found appreciation for ethical design, and I want to learn more about how I could be ethical. However I couldn't find anywhere that sold it in Leeds, I did find somewhere online, however the delivery time was 7 days, and this woud be delivered after my print time which was no use. I also thought that ordering it online meant that it wasn't particularly ethical as I should be sourcing the paper from a local area.

Something that I was very unhappy about with the book that I noticed after binding was a couple of printing mistakes. When I had shown my design to someone they recommended that I should change my text boxes from being aligned from both sides to being aligned solely to the left as it would be easier to read. and so I followed this advice, I had already spell checked the book an unhyphenated alot of the sections to make for easier reading, however just before I went to the printers, I decided to follow the advice that I was given.

This ended up in some of my text being cut off from too of the pages I had produced, Once I had changed the alignment of the text boxes, the text had gotten longer, however I hadn;t changed the size of the text box, and it ended up in the bottom section of the paragraph being cut off.

I would have loved to have gone back and redone the mistakes however, with the weekend before deadline being a bank holiday one, and the original which I had already cut and began to bind has cost me £14 in printing and binding, being without a loan, and on a budget, i didn't have the funds to reprint.

The error with this bit of text on the time is key spread, is as the bottom of the paragraph on the left and top of the paragraph on the right and is supposed to read 'I have adapted to the changes of time, responding to briefs ranging from one day to six weeks'.

The other problem is on the alternative media spread in which the bottom of the right hand paragraph is cut off.  This is how it reads:

The bottom sentence is supposed to read:

'I currently and plan on in the future combining hand drawings with the digital aesthetic.'