Critical Journal: November 2008

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

The skills I have developed through this module have been highly significant I feel that within this module I have learnt many new and vital skills within the printing process in order to for-fill my career of becoming a graphic designer. My understanding of the printing is much stronger and I feel more confident within the understanding and knowing the range of printing is vital for future projects to become more professional and aware of the printing industry around us. With in the summer I went on some work experience in Doncaster at a printers. The printers had a design side where I worked. I had some knowledge of print but felt I needed to know and understand in depth a lot more and so the module came at the right time for me as I could broaden my understanding of both colour & printing processes.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
Learning about the resources in and out of college has become a vital asset to my work and future work. To understand how the outcomes get printed was an area of mine that needed to be developed and so I feel that within my projects I will understand the limits that a project will take and to understand the clients needs within a professional industry.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
The strengths within my work have been my organisational work although this is an are that always can be improved. I feel that within this module I have become more organised within my work and timekeeping in order to make me produce higher quality work and experiment more within my work. Although I need to start this from the beginning of the project in order to ensure that the development of my project is strong in order to create a stronger outrcome.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
My weakness I feel have been research & development. I feel that within my work I sometimes have the tendency to stick to an idea in which I should experiment and develop other ideas to get the full potential of an outcome. This makes me produce poor research although I found my questionnaire to have a good outcome I felt that there could have been more primary & secondary research which may have produced a stronger outcome or perhaps would have given me a wider range of ideas.

5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Start my organisational skills at the beginning of a brief. Categorising parts of the brief that need to be forfilled.
Write a detailed time plan per week of what needs to be complete
Develop ideas further
Experiment and test with a range of ideas to ensure best & most appropriate outcome
Keep relating to target audience.

6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)

5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

1 2 3 4 5
Attendance 5
Punctuality 4
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 3
Contribution to the group 3