On Tuesday the 23rd of March I took part in ideas development throughout the day which was carried out within the group as a whole. The main aim of the day was to firstly view exisiting design magazines and gain some helpful research, and then produce some skamps for design ideas and develop these into a possible finalised solution. I found the day extremely helpful and a key factor in creating a finalised design. Before hand I was slightly unsure of where to take my ideas and what design styles to use but through working hands on with research, idea generation and finalising solutions I was able to kick start the design process. Having the tighter diciplines and working under shorter time limits helped to give a strong representation of how the design industry would work and allowed me to produce designs that were efficient and effective. I was able to produce two double page spread designs and was very happy with the quality of them.

On Wednesday the 24th of March I had an interim critique which was carried out between the whole of the class, looking at the finalised designs that were produced in yesterdays development of ideas. I found the critique very helpful in that I was able to gain some quality feedback and also observe what everyone else had created. I found that my final designs were very effective and the use of the fish head being hidden was seen as a very clever and interesting style. The type face used for the headings was seen as quite consistent with the theme of the article which was focussed around a type designer, however the post it images could be re-thought and possibly replaced with a more effective image.



Today I contacted some companies about work experience and was quite happy with the progress made. I was able to obtain some email addresses and began sedning off some emails with an attached CV and a covering letter. One of the companies I contacted was Park Corner Design which are a broad design agency located in Winchester.

I also carried out some sketchbook work, making sure everything was presented neatly.