Thursday, 11 December 2014

The Designers Republic Evaluation

The Designers Republic Evaluation

This workshop/ brief pushed my design thinking and I think that it may have been a little too different for myself, however I did really enjoy the preliminary task and I think that it had a strong concept and I liked what I created in the day.

The second part, the task and presentation of the workshop where a little less enjoyable, I struggled with thinking of a task and then after doing the task I felt that I had not done the right kind of activity and others had done some really good tasks that had converted into an interesting presentation. I feel that I found this hard as I always try to create some meaning and connection in all of my work and I was being asked to do the opposite.

However in the presentation I did bring it back to some meaning and I think that this was not entirely appropriate for the brief as it made it un pointless in a way.

Moreover in this workshop I enjoyed the presentation and gaining some feedback from an important industry professional who was honest and not to critical meant that I felt encouraged. I had been told that my presentation was too busy there was too much on the slide and I can see that now I look back on it.

I am also slightly disappointed that for the end I didn’t really have a physical outcome which others had done and they had looked really good, but then again the task was meant to be pointless and so having something from it defeats the purpose.


The workshop was over two days and I think it really pushed the amount of work and thinking I had to do in this space of time especially when it was a brand new brief. I think that this has pushed my idea of timescales and the amount I can produce in a short space of time, however I do feel that my best work if there is a lot required isn’t when the time is so short, but this could also be due to the fact I wasn’t familiar with the context of the brief.

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