Monday morning was a rather surreal experience, with an activity thrown on the group by surprise, which I think no one experienced. It was strange in the way that I felt nervous and under presser about having a 15 minute time limit to draw 15 designs for the business card. Then there was another time limit to create and print out the business card, which made it feel a really rushed creation. To think about it, the experience was quite good and a real eye opener to what the life can be like in this industry. I don’t know how well I would cope with doing that every day, day in day out.
When we had feed back for the business cards from Steve, it was a accurate realisation on how important it is to check the information carefully on the product. And that you should only include the information provided by the client and can’t add anything to it.
Once again the lecture was very interesting and useful, it was a real eye opener on what to do and what not to do on graphic design products. The real task will be to apply the PARC principles to designs. So I suppose I’m going to have to read through the notes a few more times to try and remember them a bit better.
The same scenario as Monday morning happened on Tuesday morning as well, but this time there was more pressure as there was now a higher expectation of us. This being the fact we had to use the PARC principle (or the other name which I won’t mention) and get the supplied content perfect.
The image restoration task, that last week I thought was progressing really well, now seems to be behind and needs a lot of work doing to it. This is after seeing the stage the rest of the class is at and having Steve point out some of the things I need to touch up. I now need to spend a lot of time on touch up some parts and find the appropriate colour for the suits and skin tones.
I also need to find time to complete A3 and there is a lot of work to do on it for next week. So it’s going to be a busy week, but I should hopefully see some progression!
Good luck to those who handed in their referral work.
I also appreciated the lecture on P.A.R.C. I thought it gave a structure, and a name, to a few techniques that are used kind of subconsciously.
In terms of being under pressure for the business card thing, I thought it was quite a useful exercise, and gave a reflection of what we are in for in the future.
Hi Greg
A very good reflection on the weeks events.
It is a good think that you were nervous about the timed business card assignments because it shows that you are taking things seriously.
I also really liked your use of hyperlinks to convey the ‘other name‘ of the principles learned during lecture.
I get the impression that everyone is enjoying the image restoration section of the A4 assignment.
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Thanks
Shaun Bellis
Thanks for the food luck..
I think its a good idea that you mentioned that you are going to read through your notes again to fully understand the P.A.R.C principles. Perhaps I should think about doing this also.
I really liked your attempt at the photo restoration so far, it looked really good.. just take a look at some of the fine detail when it comes to little things like the tie. Especially where you’ve taken out the fold line.. that’s the hardest bit, to get it to blend in when you zoom to see it.
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I found the task on Monday really usefull to so good to see that you did as well.
Seems as if you enjoyed making cards for a different company on Tuesday and least you can learn from what you did wrong the first time.
I really enjoyed monday/tuesdays task. It shows how well you can work under pressure and how much you can get done in such a short space of time.
I think it would be useful to do something like that again but doing something a little different from a business card. It was also interesting to see how other people work under pressure and their speedy designs.
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I loved it when I first got the PARC lecture, and I think that’s what made things click for me. After a while you’ll just do it automatically, and then you won’t even notice it.
It’s a very good thing to remember when designing, so make sure it’s ingrained in your memory. It’s that that will give you Attention to detail as so many job applications ask for.