5. How is the quality of my design?

Check my design practice blog, against the briefs we are given.

4. Have I reached mandatory requirements for each brief?

Is this evidenced and documented well on my blog?

Is it clear concise and in order? 

Have I collected enough research?

3. How well is my work written?

Do I make points, with evidence and reasoning?

Do I use appropriate terminology?

2. Am I time efficient?

- Work up to date.

- Posting all at once/ in intervals.

1. Is context understandable?

- Levels of understanding.

- Makes points evidenced by reason and rationale?

-Is writing in a structure?

Focus on feedback.

In monday's PPP session we focused on what feedback we wanted, this followed by giving our peers feedback. We were asked to make a personal list on aspects of our work we would like feedback on.

If I am working efficiently.

If I am using my blog correctly.

If I am doing enough development.

Is what I am researching relevant/ of good quality. 

The standard of my work.

In our blog groups we then combined our lists and stated what evidence we would need to collate and give of these in order to gain feedback. In addition to the list above, others in my group would also like to gain feedback on;

Talking and writing skills - analysed via context blogs and any oral presentations.

What they can do to develop ideas further - context blog.

The tutors initial thoughts of us up until now - progress crits and tutorial meetings. 

Am I on track to pass? A success criteria.

We then made a list collectively as a class what we wanted feedback on and these were the outcomes:
1. Use of blog - content/organisation/quality of text and image
2. Assesment criteria - What is needed to pass?
3. Time and project management
4. Writing skills/ academic skills
5. Critical evaluation
6. Quality of work
7. Design descisions - producing/ presentation
8. Understanding design principles
9. Individual improvements (Am I getting better?)
10. Appropriateness of responses.

From this list we constructed 10 questions in a group that we would like answers to (feedback) from our other peers. We then individually had to pick 5 of these to post on our blog, that we would like a response to. my next post depicts my chosen 5. 

OUGD403. Alphabet Soup typeface. Group crit - Friday 12th October.

4 days into the brief we had a group crit where we presented our ideas to 5 other students, and two of our course tutors. It was invaluable to get more of a one on one experience with tutors as well as gather other feedback from students who were of course completing the same brief. It was interesting to see how other students had started to process the brief, all beginning their own journey in response. After presenting my ideas and refining the crucial feedback I had been given, I three things I will take away or as an outcome the three things I will do are;

1. Focus on a solid idea!

I have experimented with a lot of ideas from the information my partner Amy had provided. Focusing on Siscott inspired illustration I had tried to create a different illustration for each letter to represent each of Amy's characteristics. However after going to the crit I was advised not to over complicate thins and stick to one idea, therefore one of Amy's characteristics. After most of the group favourited one particular letter form I had illustrated I decided to create a set of letters based upon this piece.

2. Always bring visuals to a crit! 

Although I brought a few examples on concepts I had been working on, few people turned up to the crit with solely ideas in their head they had considered to pursue but no material to work with. Tutors and students can not give feedback without viewing any ideas on paper.

3. Experiment with fill and line.
As Amy had said her favourite colour was white I was afraid playing too much with fill may combat and override the information I had been given. However I plan to experiment more with line weight etc in order to work with not against the answers I received.