//End of Module Evaluation//

1.What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

Throughout this module I have developed a range of skills, for example in the illustrator brief, which I was pretty pleased with, before coming here I had never used illustrator and my skills on photoshop were behind limited, so for me to produce an alphabet at all was an achievement. Other skills which I feel I have developed are organisational skills as my work improving all the time in the form of my blog, as i am starting to organise my time so that i spend a certain amount of time blogging every week.

2.What approaches to/methods of idea generation have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?

Within this module there have been many different ways of generating ideas, At the beguiling of the year I worked in a sketchbook generating ideas and doing mini mind maps, however as time went on i found it difficult working on such a small scale. I started to use design sheets as a quick and effective way of generating ideas quickly, i found it much easier to develop ideas on a large scale as it gave me room to swap and change things. I also find the blog very useful, Ive never had a blog in the past but find it helpful in the sense that if any work gets lost or damage in any way it is all saved digitally and so is always available, as well as making it easy to look at other peoples work and development.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

One strength which I can identify is that I am very willing to learn, I am eager and love to try new things, things is a bonus as my work can have a range of styles to it, I think this is important as not all work should be the same.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?

One huge weakness in my work is my lack of software skills, I struggle to do final pieces within the time limit as I take so much longer than everyone else to do simple things, In the future I will attend extra session on a wednesday with Simon in the Mac suit in order to develop my software skills. I also feel like my blogging skills could improve, the language I use and the amount I use blogger could be improved by doing more.

5. Identify 5 things which you will do differently next time and what you expect to gain form doing this?

• Improve my time management, make sure that I organise my time in every project so i have enough time for development, and experimentation
• Make sure to book time slots in the printing room
• And things to my PPP blog which I find visually pleasing or interesting.
• Start final pieces earlier so i have more time to print and make any relevant changes.
• Use the mac suit and the help offered more efficiently. 

How would you grade yourself on the following areas 

5= Excellent 

4= Very good 

3=Good 

2= Average  

1=Poor

• Attendance = Excellent 5
• Punctuality = Excellent  5
• Motivation= Good 3
• Commitment = Good 3
• Quantity of work produced= Average/poor 2/1
• Qaulity of work produced = Average 2
• Contribution to the group = Good 3

//Illustrator Brief Final Piece//

Here is my final piece for the illustrator brief, the letters are made upon lines and a background colour or baby blue, this links to my word build as the lines re built up to make a shape or letter.

With my lack of skills on illustrator the final product has turned out reasonably well, before coming to Leeds college of Art I had never used illustrator and found the illustrator workshop hard to keep up with, but after finding something simple which could easily be replicated I found it quite simple to do. 

 There has not been any formal feedback so far for this project, but hopefully it for fills the brief.

//Experimentation for Alphabet soup//Workshop illustrator//

 Below is some experimentation done for the illustrator project, each letter was done from one of the letters from alphabet soup, in order to see if all the letters in the alphabet would work in each form.

This letter was produced by Building up letters.

This letter is based on the idea that when things are build that are often put together with a nut and bold.

These letters 'build' up in size.

More experimentation for the later which is most likely to be used

This letter will be use in the final design.

//Final Designs for//Message and Delivery//

 These are the final designs for message and Delivery, overall they work well but there are a few things which could have been improved. Below is the mailing list, The hand rendered letters were used and the font 'Dandelion In The Spring' was used as the Type face. 

One thing which had a major effect on the Final overall Project was Printing, due to lack of Time and organisation, all of my work ended up being printed on different printers which meant that the colour on all of the shots were different, if it were to be reproduced they would be printed the same.

These are the stickers which hold the final Mail shot together, if it were to be done again it would be printed double sided so that the Addresses would be printed and then the Water stones stickers would be used to hold it all together and bind it.

Below are the final Mail shots, they are all bound with a sticker and all have individual addresses on the front.

On the original Mail shots with were printed of the the Final crit, the stickers which were used on the front of the shots was pixelated, however this has been changed as it was the main thing which was mentioned in the crit.

All of the mail shots open up to look like this below, There were problems when printing and so they all had to be printed out on A3 and attached together, if there was more time they would have been printed in the digital dungeon, The printer in the digital dungeon which could print on A0 was broken at the time and so it wasn't possible to print at this size.

 Here is the part of the Poster which explains what it is about, it explains that Waterstones does Signing days and Childrens activity days. this part of the posters has problems with printing also, the printer was not aligned correctly so the more of the paper was cut of than planned this meant that more of the 'S' was cut and so it doesn't fit together correctly.

Here is some experimentation which was done after developing an idea. The idea consisted of Hand rendered letters which would make up my proverb 'Not everything is as it seems' The Final Piece will be in the form of a poster and will advertised events at Waterstones, such as book signings and children's activity days. The poster will be as long as a A0 print but slightly small in height than a A4 so that it unexpectedly unfolds out into a long poster. 

This is experimentation for the hand rendered letters which will be at the start of every word. 

 Al the letters will be different in pattern and in size, this was inspired by Luminated letters in old books and children's books, where every letters at the beguiling of a chapter is decorated in different colours and patterns. this also links in with my Profession which is an author. The illustration which was research also gave much inspiration to these letters.