Tutorial Preparation Form

BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN	LEVEL	05
Name Luke Rossiter	Date 31/10/12

PROGRESS TUTORIAL

ATTENDANCE Are there any issues that you wish to discuss regarding your attendance?	Comments NO
List any General Issues relating to assessment, grades, feedback, workload etc. -       I have no issues regarding any of these points. I feel that I generally understand how the system works now. -       Workload has been fine.
BLOGS. Are there any issues that you want to discuss regarding the content and use of your blogs.	Comments Is the design/ layout of my blog acceptable?
CURRENT PROGRESS Are there any issues regarding your current work / workload that you would like to discuss.	Comments Will it start to pick up speed the next few weeks? (not that im complaining)

Student

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ACTION PLAN
Action	Deadline	Completed
Complete blog posts, update blogs and finish any leftover work outlined in notebook. Look over blogs and update/ continue work that could be inproved.	4/10/12 Continued

STUDY TASK 3// Industry Experience Seminar

Fred held a seminar which introduced us to the principles of industry experience, We discussed the benefits of experience as well as how we could go about getting getting it, and worries we may have and essentially what it consists of. We produced the following lists:

What is Industrial experience?
Being Involved with a studio
Seeing Designers in a professional workspace
Understanding of studio hierachy
Seeing your own practice in context
Applying and building knowledge
Putting the proverbial foot in the perverbial door
Getting advice
Becoming more aware of how professinal relationships are formed and maintained
Developing an understanding of limitations
Working on Live Briefs

  
What can you learn from industrial experience?
Learn about payment and payment processes
Costing and expenses
Management skills and responsibilities
More professional studio etiquette
How to work together and respond to briefs as a team


What form/format could industrial experience take?
-Visiting a studio to have a look around, talk to the designers and management.
-Paid placement, where you become part of the team for a short period of time, and get paid for you troubles
-Unpaid experience, where you have the opportunity to experience live briefs within a studio, however you will be unpaid.
- Working on competition briefs, I suppose that working on live competition briefs will give you similar real world design challenges. Experience will come from overcoming these
- Experience will also come from simply approaching studios in the first place, pitching yourself and having interviews with them, making phone calls with people in industry.
 

What areas of industry are you interested in?
-Games industry, I am interested in working with the games industry either in the publication and real world advertisement of games or the in game application of graphic design in game-world environments or user interfaces.

 

-Web design, for publication and editorials, displaying larger amounts of text, pictures and information as well as the opportunity to design information graphics to accompany articles, for display on the internet. 

- Brand Identity, creating a brand identity, working in the black-art of advertisement. I'm interested in how people think, and how you can make money out of them. I also like the aspect of growing a new brand from scratch and creating a market for something new, inventions, products, people. 

-I would like to be involved with the production of an app for the IOS or android market, designing user interface, branding and advertisement, as well as visual styles of the app itself be it in layout, character design, illustration or delivery of text and image. 

-Social or Political design or artwork. Something which has slipped down my interests in the last year but something I have received positive feedback for in the past from designers and tutors I respect. Although this may contradict with some of my other interests for some people, I only express interest in many of these issues and find that the art of social and political commentary is not to express your own views but to deliver the facts of a situation without being forceful or arrogant, by being satirical and not belligerent.

What are your concerns about industrial experience?
- That I will be too inexperienced for my industrial experience.
- Going to work in a place which is wrong for me, or reciveing the wrong sort of experience.
- Being taken advantage of, large amounts of work for no money or being made to make coffee.
- Not getting a good range of work.
- Messing up contacts, making a bad name for myself.  

50 DESIGNS// The Final 10

 These are the final 10 images that we felt represented a wide range of graphic design in multiple fields.

 This is a huge list of specific areas of graphic design that we could find within the collection of 50 images bought to the table.

We worked together to work out information about each design from the final list of 10.

STUDY TASK 1// Why Am I Here - What Do I Want To Learn?

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

- The course structure and content appealed to me when I applied. The course covers all the aspects of Graphic Design I thought I would like to cover when we started and is structured to push you in the deep end whilst also easing you into the industry simultaniously. 

- I enjoy living in Leeds. I lived in Leeds for a year before joining the course and decided that I would like to stay.

- The reputation of the course is good. I feel that we have a reputation of being some of the best which I feel adds to our professionalism in the studio and our renown when we leave.

- There is a good course community. The year is friendly and professional, makes a really nice studio environment.

- We have to work hard. Again, the course pushes us in the deep end and keeps going. This is good for me because I feel without the hard work I would quickly become very lazy indeed. 


Identify and explain 5 things that you want to learn during your time on the programme.

- Website building. I think that this would be one of the most important aspects of graphic design for me in the future, as lots of the industry is aimed at web design today. 

- What to charge. One of the most important aspects of being a professional is what sort of money I can make. This is something I have very little knowledge of at the moment so is something I really need to learn.

- How to hold a professional presentation. Presentations have been fairly easy for us so far. Talking to fairly small groups or nice people who don't ask questions. It would be good to learn more about the sort of questions we could receive on the spot during or after presenting to professionals. 

- Branding and Packaging. Luckily this is one of the things covered this year, branding and packaging is generally avoided during first year because it is conceived to be boring. Not true, I would like to really experiment and get to know good product design. 

- How protect my work from copyright and other legal stuff. Id like to know how I go about protecting my creative products in the future, to make sure none of it is ripped off and I don't loose money. 


Identify and explain 5 things that you want to improve.

- More of the intricate options in the Adobe CS. My knowledge grows every day and there is always more to learn. This should increase my design options and also efficiency. 

- Better knowledge of trends. I would like to cut down on random searching and following the same sites and blogs and start finding efficient ways to discover what is currently in trend in graphic design.

- Use of gradients/ colour. I would like to use more gradients of colour in my work and for my work to be more colourful in general. I sometimes say that I have a good appreciation of colour but I always rely on black or white to fill the spaces.

- Blogging. Blogging can be boring and slow work. Last year I would do lots of work and then blog it all. This year I would like to work and blog simultaneously to reduce last minute stress.    

- My workspace at home. I do a lot of work at home after college and I would like to make sure it stays a good clean work environment this year. This should improve my efficiency and quality of work when done at home. 



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

- Talk to peers and friends. Some can tell white lies but I feel I know who can give honest opinion.

- Blogging, blogging means I can talk openly about my own work, explain its context and what I like and don't like about it. When I look back through I can see where I have been and were I could develop and go next.

- Crits. Crits help a wider audience give feedback to my work. This is beneficial because the mixture of opinions usually means that personal taste is left out and real issues with design are not ignored. 

- Images, Im going to collect all of my designs final copies in a folder on my computer. This will allow me to look back at a glance at all of my work so far for inspiration and common themes to find some stylistic direction. 

- Evaluation Tasks. Writing about briefs and modules as a whole gives some perspective on my work from a new angle, and also links my work to research work. Not only on design but also process and perspective. 


Identify 5 questions that you want to find the answer to

- How well funded is the college compared to others?


- Can I enter competitions and enter them as coursework for marks?

- How do we specialise, what is the process?

- How much help will we get with Easter and summer placements?  

- How in depth will the webpage workshops be?


Identify and explain 5 things that inspire you.
 
- Others in our year. We all push each other to create better work. Partly out of constantly trying to better each other and partly from the way we talk and crit everyday. 

- Other designers. Seeing other designers work on the internet and in everyday life inspires us to create work at their level.

- My family, having a brother two years younger than me but at the same level at university pushes me to work hard. Also my parents invest a lot in my future as well as being inspirational in their own rights.

- Political and social issues. Before our work became focused in first year I based the vast majority of my work on social and political issues. These things inspire me because of my general interest in them. This also applies to History, cult film and gaming, and music to a lesser extent. 

- Travelling around has developed my personality to a degree. I believe that this has genuinely inspired my outlook.


DESIGN THAT INSPIRES

 AUTO DESIGN AND LIVERY.

 LAYOUT.

 SPACE.

 ALTERNATIVE FILM AND MUSIC POSTERS

 3D TYPO

 2D TYPOGRAPHY

COLOUR PSHYCOLOGY

 INVENTIVE COVER DESIGN ON OLD MEDIA.

 INTERACTION ON ENVIRONMENT

INFOGRAPHICS