End of Module Assessment

Message & Delivery: Distrubtion

Taking the main points from the feedback would be generally positive, with constructive feedback onto the parts on where I had gone wrong. This would include the fact that I had actually created an outcome which didn't fit the brief criteria, it had to be an envelope. The size was right, It was just that part I'd gone wrong on. Also to make the message of the perforation clearer. These were easy to resolve so I'm taking note of this feedback because It was incredibly helpful that it was picked up on, they were things that had totally flown over me.

I struggled alot with this brief, I think the main part as unlike the other brief I had started to over think and over complicate things, It's not something I often do either and I ended up stalling my self in creating the design. I held back on alot of the designs as I felt they didn't fit the audience or message I was trying to get across which was really direct, and I was trying to make that happen in around about way. It was rather last minute because of this and I feel the outcome reflected that through it's concept, the production of the design pieces however I feel was really good. I was able to find a perforator to complete the perforation part to the design so I was able to go forward with that and It made a great interactive piece.

I much preferred this crit to the previous one, having a extra mind to help out while writing down the feedback allowed us to get alot more done faster and talk about what we thought the messages were, I'd like to do a crit like this again because it's just the right size with two people, anymore and the work load would have been dumped on the odd one out as it all so happens in bigger groups. 

Message & Delivery: Research

I wasn't able to take much away from the feedback from this crit, mainly because the feedback was mostly all positive and didn't bare much on the possible faults in the work it's self. However I with this crit I felt it was rather rushed and I wasn't able to get what I wanted to write down about other peoples work down in time I felt I was able too so maybe this was reflected with them on this on what they perhaps would have had chance to say about my work as well. Hopefully next time we do a crit like this we'll have more time to reflect on the work and write down our thoughts. It was great to get alot of feedback written all the the same time though, or come back too.

My personal thoughts on the outcomes is that if I was to do them again, I think I would maybe perhaps change the styling of them and go for a more traditional look, somewhat closer to what the constructivists had going, but then again this was for a modern audience, going back to that would probably lose that aspect to it. I felt this was more designed for designers rather then people. This is the only nit pick I have for the posters however. I think with anymore time I would have other thinked them and probably created not as strong outcomes, having to think quick and create a outcome with a straight to the point message was constantly on my mind.

I really enjoyed creating the posters however, It was a great break in getting back into something I was comfortable with once again, a break to from typography, but was really refreshing. I was really impressed with the overall outcomes of everyone else's in the crit as well. It was incredible to see such a variation in work for many had picked the same article to work from. Not alot had happened in the news recently, and from this It was great to see where everyone was at.

Message & Delivery: Power Crit

In this power critique we were to bring in research revolving around our article we had chosen from a News paper, for the research I bought to the table, It can be found in my posts here. 

This was a really interesting crit, having not been up to date with the current affairs in the world and nation, It was really cool to here what other people had brought to the table and to light with their articles they had researched into. Such as the Lance Armstrong's blood doping and the earth quake aftermath blame game going on in Spain. 

It's inspired me to try and keep more and more update, I've added BBC's news page to my book marks bar so I can keep having a look to see what's going on more often.