the time has come, I have made it to the end while it might be a bit scary and sad that I’m finishing my time degree it also such a good feeling knowing that all my stress for my degree is finally over and i can take time to myself really think what I want to do for myself in my career. While everything is over I want to spend some time to do a small overview.
Afterlife
Afterlife was such a useful part of my degree while it was An hour every week for a couple of weeks but I found having a inlook of industry and people design and story of how they got there is really inspiring to help me see what life could look like for me however it did make me worry a lot as I just feel some of the afterlife speakers just showed their end goal of where they are are not how they really got There where the afterlife that gave more tips and recent university leaver give the best advice and told us it’s okay to feel that way and take time out, i found having more recent graduates helped ease my worries as i will get where I’m meant to be.
Design for real
The design for real brief was a crazy experience for me The brief wasn’t something that didn’t have much knowledge on and the brief didn’t have a set outcomes so it meant I had to spend a lot of time research but questioning the client to find the best idea about the brief and a way to make a concept that i thought could help benefit the end goal, while designing and taking part of the brief i really struggled at time but looking back this project might of been stressful but it one of my proudest achievement so far and I was lucky enough to get picked to have the opportunity to go and work my client outside of university. The design for Real project really helped me see that I can do anything if i do enough research and have a good amount of communication with the client .
dissertation and dissertation design
Being dyslexic at times can have it challenge so if you told me years ago I would completed a 10k word disseration on a chosen topic of mine i would of laughed, but I think it one of my proudest achievement so far in life that I have done while it was a lot work to judge around designing I really enjoying reading and writing about my chosen topic of Society influences & emotional marketing methods used by healthy and beauty cosmetics brands, to targets female consumers to create consumerism behaviour patterns. I found designing my dissertation really enjoying and like something to be proud about and show in my portfolio to show my own research that I have done is i could redo my disseration i think i would explore some more areas that could be more image based so i could design some imagery that fit better.
competition brief – penguin
Penguin book competition this year was sadly not my favorite i just felt that the books that were out this year didn’t have much connectrion to me or themes that i felt i could personally explore that amazingly but the design i did come up with was more about the concept then the final look, when designing i have really seen this my ear that the design i do make afe more about concept instead of the visual look and maybe that something i need to push more when I leave university.
Duolingo
D&AD competition was such a good brief that was set. this was one of my major live brief that been set that. not university based and had a brand guidelines to following, so at the start i found coming up with concept hard but i really pushed through my hardest but after feedback and support I was really able to pull my design to a better stander and feel happy to have my work shown to others, i really enjoyed having the freedom to pick my own brief and seeing what my own brain could do on it own as I know in industry I will be given brief. that all about my own ideas and trying to fit then with the brand colours even if I dislike them and this brief really made me do that I had to use the brand goals and colours in my own work.
FMP
FMP from the straight of the year I thought I was going to do marketing or packaging design keep my end project very simple however when it came to the end of the year I knew my portfolio was really missing UX/UI design so I really wanted to push myself and explore social media design something that i haven’t done since year one, while i think my app isn’t the most visually appealing app i think the concept behind my app and overall project is very strong and could be developed more outside of my university and could be pitched to someone that could help develop the app more.
criticality project
Criticality project was such a funny experiment project for me that allowed me to explore ideas outside of digital design so much until i wanted to change my design after feedback but i think this project allowed me to go away and explore an idea with having a set goal in mind and just explore and explore different paths until i felt my idea my strong enough be used.
My overall final year experience might not of bene what i was expecting to have especially all of it being online and no having time to sit in the studio it has really made me see that work can be done online if i put my mind to this year has also made me see that no matter challenge im faced with if i keep pushing and give myself a list of tasks to do each day and plan out i can do it and not to stress so much this year has also given me opportunity that i wouldn’t of got before so i’m so thankful for my final year even though it’s been a mega stressful year for physical and mentally but i did and that’s all that matters at the end of the day as i nearly dropped out 1st year and now I’ve finish my degree it’s a big achievement no matter what grade i get .
Georgia Smith 