Through studio brief 01 of this module, this taught me the value and importance of networking and talking to people already within the creative industry. For my creative report, I decided to contact two print-makers, Anthony Burrill and Ben Rider, since this made sense to me as I aim to have a career in printmaking at some point in the future. It was interesting to hear first hand about their own practices, but this also gave me the opportunity to ask for invaluable advice about the industry which will help me in my own development as a designer. From this I have and will continue to make an effort keeping in contact with both designers, Rider specifically asking me to 'keep him in the loop', hopefully meaning I have secured a contact I can potentially go back to throughout the rest of my degree and in the start of my professional career to help when needed. In addition, their responses allowed for me to produce practical work, which gave me an opportunity to put what I've learnt and their ideas into practice.
For such practical work, it was initially thought about producing screen or lino block prints to work with their methods of production, however it was forgotten how much work goes into just preparing to traditionally print designs and attempting to visualise my ideas into prints did not work as well as I hoped which meant I had to take a different approach to this. This truly taught me the importance of experimentation as Ben Rider also suggested in his responses in that not everything will go as you plan, it's just all about not being afraid to make mistakes and use these mistakes to your advantage in some way or another.
In a similar sense, the importance of talking to others and working collaboratively was further highlighted through this module, in particular studio brief 02 which asked us to work in groups of 5 to produce and pitch an idea to the class for a new wayfinding system for the university. Our pitch specifically was based on the history of the university being situated within the arts and crafts movement, whilst adding elements which would make this more contemporary - colour, light and nature. A lot of our work towards this final pitch was embedded within our initial research, however feedback suggested that it was thought this was not embedded in research enough and was a little 'under presented'. Our group did not necessarily agree with this feedback, however this taught me that it is important to think carefully about how you communicate your ideas to a client and the fact that they may not like what you like or see the same things in the way you do - whether you agree or not, you have to take the client's needs and feedback into account.
Reflecting on the year in the form of a presentation through studio brief 03 I thought was a good way to round off the year as a whole. This allowed me to work on my presentation skills which will be useful in a future career when presenting talks or pitching ideas to clients, and as a result I felt much more confident presenting myself as a designer than I have done with any previous presentations. I feel a part of this may have been to do with the fact that overall I have been more confident in my own work this year, learning more about myself as a creative, whilst developing new and existing skills.
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