OUGD504 - My Design Process - Crit

My preparation for todays crit was very poor. All I had to show was a scrappy piece of lined paper ripped out of my sketchbook with pencil writing on it that I'd used to give myself an idea of what information would go where, as well as a very early stages of my InDesign document.







The scrap of paper was by no means impressive, but the screenshot was enough to get some ideas out of people. When we discussed the lack of colour and I gave my reasons for it, the general response was that if I wasn't going to be using images, I needed to use a colour background, which is something I'll definitely consider.


Something more interesting came up was that the diagram was too mechanical and the hand drawn rough sketch on the piece of paper was more appropriate and that I should look into using a hand drawn sketch to make it more personal, which is again something that I'll need to look into. 

Other than that the only other things that were said was that because I was using a simple fold I'd need to take particular care with it and make sure it was all perfect as there was no excuse to mess it up, compared to other people who's folds were much more complicated and had meant that the alignment of the printing was off. Whilst I accept this as a problem I see it as a much easier problem to address than aligning printing and folding with each other, which is something I think some people haven't considered in their designs but won't be causing me any problems due to the nature of my design and fold.