VISUAL LANGUAGE EVALUATION:

This brief despite its potential I feel I haven’t excelled in as well as I thought. This was due to a number of reasons. Firstly that the brief was continued over Christmas and much went on where I wasn’t able to do any work. Secondly I felt very creatively stunted for the entire course of the brief, I felt it was hard for me to come up with a subject I was passionate about, and I went down many more avenues than I normally do. Through this I learnt a lot that could work for me in other briefs when I feel the time is right however it wasn’t appropriate this time and because of that I wasted a lot of time looking around for inspiration. My time was managed badly as I mention in many of my evaluations and I feel that this is something I definitely need to work on, and will make a conscious effort to.

I felt my research methods have improved and I am now more motivated to get on with looking into things and learning about the world. Earlier this week I read a quote from a small time graphic designer in which he said that his best way of getting ideas was to read and learn about things and be doing this all the time, whether they be graphic design based or not. I feel my work will definitely benefit from this.
I am happy with the context of my work and I feel this is one of my strengths, I think there is a lot of meaning behind the pieces that I have done for this brief and much meaning that can also be determined as questions, I hope that people have looked at my work in the exhibition and questioned it and maybe even themselves.

This brief didn’t go the way I had wished it would, and ideally I could have come up with my final idea much earlier on and therefore saved myself a lot of wasted time. However I feel I did the best I could in the time I was given and I would like to work with these pieces much more to make them worthy of portfolio work. I learnt how to bookbind and how to use indesign in this brief and I will find that very useful for more of my briefs. I will definitely be making books again as it is something I have wanted to do for a while but never had the experience.

Overall this brief taught me a lot, much of which was practical for my work and the experience of having an exhibition was excellent as the last time I had one was at GCSE level. I hope to make more of having my work exhibited next time and try to get more pieces up. This brief has also taught me a lot about myself, I could never really say I’ve had creative block however now I am able to as I experienced it through so much of the beginning of this brief, this has taught me ways to prevent this from happening and the keep my mind working and engaged with the world all the time.