PPD Task 2

WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE?

- Industrial experience can be gaineing experience through work experience, internships and studio visits. getting to know the surroundings of a design studio learning from people who already do what you wnat to do. 

- It is about gaining the understanding of how to work in your field and how become the best throught the knowlege of others. 

- Industrial experience will teach you technical skills and life skills, not only how to work act in a working enviroment but how to apply your self with the skills you have/will learn. 

- Industrial experience is about engaging with the industry you want to go into, understanding it and learing from it, to become a better designer.  

WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE?

- How to proffesionally collaborate with other creatives. 

- How to conduct your self within a proffesional working enviroment. 

- The methods of working and how proffesional designers work towards a brief. 

WHAT FORM/FORMAT COULD INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE TAKE?

- Studio visits 

- Visiting Printers 

- Internships

- Work placements 

- Freelance work for studio

WHAT AREAS OF INDUSTRY ARE YOU INTRESTED IN? 

- Editorial design, 

I would like to do some work experience at a design firm that specilises in editorial layout design.

- A publishing company.

HOW ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE? 

- How to aproach design firms and get work experience.

- What to expect from a proffesional work enviroment. 

- Should I take up un-paid work experience after graduation.

 

Enterprise Task 2

Revised Rational

(Revised) Concept Statement

GOOD IS... Manned Space Exploration

Why?

1. The advances in technology.
2. The collaboration between nations.
3. Discoveries.
4. The human achievement of space exploration. 
5. Commercial space travel

I intends to (inform/instruct/persuade/direct/educate/promote to)

Inform, educate and promote manned space exploration over the past 50 years.

...a group of (identify your specific audience or context)

School students aged 11-16. 

...that (state your message, idea, concept)

To show the achievement of manned space exploration.

In order to achieve this I will produce...

A free magazine, that will run along side an exhibition at the National Space Centre that documents and celebrates  the past 50years of manned space exploration. I will also design the promotional materials to go in schools across the country  as well as the streets for public view. The magazine will be placed in schools and libraries to encourage people to see the exhibition.   

Product- what is your product

Posters, banners, fliers and main shots to publicise the exhibition and magazine.

Range- what range of deliverable will you produce/propose

Large scale posters and promotional materials surrounding the exhibition at NSC and the launch of the magazine. 

Context- define the context in which your product will exist/be viewed

There will be posters and magazines in schools and libraries. There would also be large scale posters, banners and billboards in strategically placed parts of towns and cities to involve parents as well as the children. 

Concept Crit 19/10/2011

The crit was very beneficial, it made me realise the holes in my project and knowledge of what I was trying to produce, I fell now that my idea was on a small scale, not pushing any boundaries . Through talking with the people in my group I can now go away and re evaluate where I am with my good and how I plan to deliver it. 

Concept Boards

Project Rationale

Concept Statement

GOOD IS... Manned Space Exploration

Why?

1. The advances in technology.
2. The collaboration between nations.
3. Discoveries.
4. The human achievement of space exploration. 
5. Commercial space travel

I intends to (inform/instruct/persuade/direct/educate/promote to)

Inform, educate and promote manned space exploreation over the past 50 years.

...a group of (identify your specific audience or context)

Students and young adults in all forms of education.

...that (state your message, idea, concept)

To show the achivement of manned space exploreation.

In order to achieve this I will produce...

a free magazine documenting the past 50years of manned space exploreation, that could be placed in libraries, schools, colleges and universities.

Product- what is your product

A free magazine.

Range- what range of deliverable will you produce/propose

A magazine or set of magazines documenting the last 50 years of human space travel.

Context- define the context in which your product will exist/be viewed

In libraries, schools, colleges and universities as an intresting and informative guide to mans achievement. 

Wrap it up Crit

Strengths 

Very strong design.

Linning up with packaging is smart.

Scaling range of packageing.

Colour pallet works well.

Proffesional asthetics. 

Using acetate is a good finishing quality. 

Areas for improvement

Would be more refined if the logo is vectorised. logo is complex, possibly too much.

Could focus a rocket imagery for logo.

Stay clear of live trace.

See how the design works when uncentred.

Enterprise Task 1

MINESF

http://www.minesf.com/

I can only put a link out to this studio, as there isnt that much work but what there is, is a video! so click through its good!

Logos Crit 5-10-2011

As a part of the crit I was instructed to pick my 10 favorite logos form the 150 I had designed, after choosing my favorite 10 images, a group of my peers collaborated in critiquing the 10 to choose one image for me to further develop for the next crit.

Crit Feedback// 

• Revise spelling.
• Develop type /Font.
• Try reverse out.
• try making the 'O' clearer as another object/ symbol (as if it is in orbit)
• Possibly look at 3 dimensional images.
• and the use of the arrows, position/scale/line/quality.

The image chosen from the crit.

Study Task One

Identify and explain 5 reasons why you chose to study on this programme.

- It's in the north of England.

- It's the only course I was successful with.

- Fred sold it to meon the open day.

- The reputation of the course due to previous students success.

- How highly the students on the course spoke of the course/ and facilities.  
 
Identify and explain 5 things that you want to learn during your time on the programme.

- I want to learn and evelope my skills as a printer.

- I would like to learn more about type and layout.

- I would like to learn new programs and different forms of design.

- I would like to develope my understanding of different print processess 

- I want to learn the ins and outs of proffesional printing. 

 Identify and explain 5 skills that you think are your strengths.

- I think communication through presentation is a strength of mine.

- I think working with type and layout is another strength.

- I find it working with others in a colaberative practice is a strength. 

- I think my ablility to pick up software quickly and retain the knowledge is a strength.

- Working with print based media.

Identify and explain 5 things that you want to improve.

- I need to improve my time management and organiseation.

- I need to improve my scetching and working with image.

- I need to become more confedent at giving constructive feedbck in crits.

- I needs to have a greater knowlege of screen based graphic design.

- I need to become a more prolific blogger! 

 
Identify and explain 5 ways that you will evaluate your progress.

- Blog more!

- Spend more time in crits evaluation the feedback given. 

- Have more mini crits with peers outside of set crits.

- Evaluate my the work I create and the resons for creating it on a regular basis. 

- Produce more work, in an effort to improve my design practise.

Identify 5 questions that you want to find the answer to.

- Why I want to be a graphic designer.

- How I want to apply myself as a graphic designer.

- What area of graphic design I would like to work in.

- How to wake up at 8am and not feel like death.

- How to screen print, I've managed to forget.

- How to get a placement. 

Enterprise Seminar

This exercise calculates the amount of spend you have per year, therefore how much you need to earn yearly. My calculations state I need to earn approximately 21k which is surprising low so I hopefully will be able to fulfill this as a graduate.