End of Module Design for Print Evalaution

BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN – END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION

Module Title Design for Print and Colour for Print

Level 02 Semester 01


1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

The skills I have learnt in this first module is to focus on who my audience is and how to get my message across using my own personal knowledge to create my work with personality and impact. I have learnt to organise and categorise my work into appropriate sections, I’ve also documented my work with every improvements and changes I have made and also photographing my products into context. I have learnt a lot of understanding of research both primary and secondary and how to show that it is an inspiration to me in my work.

I have also noticed that I can communicate a little better and take time with my work to make it a quality piece for example the A2 boards they have helped bring my designs together to create as a set.
With the Colour for print I have learnt a lot of new skills that I hadn’t learnt before to do with colour and it has helped a lot with both briefs to understand the processes furthur.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

I have experimented a lot with colour, layout and type especially for my label and recipe designs it has helped to show my improvements and to see what design is effective for my audience it also helps show the weaknesses and strengths in my designs. Regular crits and talking to piers about my designs have helped by getting good feedback and more focus on what I need to improve or carry on with, staying behind after college most nights has also helped because working alone and in a quiet enviroment has helped me spot my mistakes quickly meaning I can get a lot more done to develop my ideas.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

The strengths in the briefs I think are my documentation, research both primary and secondary, layout and colour. These you see by my annotations and ongoing development design showing improvements along the process. I think the quality and time management shown in these briefs has got up a level but is still in a stage of improvement. My designs created on a computer has improved a lot more and I have been using it a lot more with more confidence then I did before and it has helped with my work to create it more visual.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

My weaknesses still lie in time management but it has improved a lot more, I think that maybe the documentation needs to be a bit more clearer especially shown in the good brief at the end of it where I was trying to do a lot of things all at once apart from at the end the rest of it I think is quite clear throughout showing the different catogories.

5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

The first thing that I would do differently would be to collect more primary research to work from so I have a bit more inspiration to communicate with, create a time plan of what I need to do each night instead of keeping to one brief for a few days. Document more of my work on the blog so I can get feedback from other users it also helps when I put it on my blog to evaluate and annotate my work so I can get a clear understanding. I think also to help make my projects flow I think by handing it to someone else who doesn’t no what your project is about will help organise your work.


6. How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)

5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor


Attendance 5
Punctuality 4
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 3
Quality of work produced 4
Contribution to the group 4

The evaluation of your work is an important part of the assessment criteria and represents a percentage of the overall grade. It is essential that you give yourself enough time to complete your written evaluation fully and with appropriate depth and level of self-reflection. If you have any questions relating to the self evaluation process speak to a member of staff as soon as possible.