Brief 2 - PRESENTATION REFLECTION

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Strengths:

- The whole presentation was a brand experience of myself – reflected the nature of the concept.
- Good use of presentation tools – video, paper, sound, slides.
- Good reflection on research methodologies and how it influenced my ideas, from the research, influences and experiences I undertook throughout the project.
- The brief was to ‘design’ the website, not having a finished website, due to my lack of expertise in this field, actually worked to my advantage. It left audience wanting to see more, rather than showing a completed working website which projects a sense of closure on the project.
- Successful reflection at the end of the presentation, explained clearly the strengths and weaknesses of the project and my PDP.
- Talked to the audience, making them feel very much involved in my thought process and reflection.
- Added value to everything!
- An innovative concept that’s contemporary and different that successfully shows the identity and brand experience of Lucy Weston as a graphic designer and creative. I believe I met requirements stated on the brief and met my own personal aims for this project.
- Have determination to use the skills and knowledge I have learnt from this website project to actually build my concept into a working website.


Weaknesses:

- Would have been good to have had 2 perspectives – show two different concepts – one evolutionary, one revolutionary.
- Use the presentation not only to show my personal journey throughout the project, but also to incorporate some information that I can teach the audience, to make them feel like they have learnt something valuable from the presentation. Like Shi achieved, he educated us on the history behind his identity and talked in-depth about artists/designers that influenced his work and why.

Personal reflection

The more and more I present, I am beginning to feel more confident. Already I feel I have progressed so much since my degree, where I was always quite timid in talking about my work, and didn’t really understand how to. Reflecting on research methodologies and the question of ‘why’, is becoming more and more comforting to reflect upon and talk about in my presentations. I was never encouraged do this on my degree, but as time goes on I’m beginning to recognise how incredibly useful and important it is to reflect upon everything you do as a designer and why you do it. It’s such a rewarding experience when you put the journey of the project together and can see how much improvement and development has been achieved, in not just the work but yourself as a maturing and nurturing designer over the short period of time we have to produce the work for these first semester projects.