General Comments
This was a brief which was really attractive to take on from the beginning because of the freedom it gave you to express yourself and do something that you find relevant. The cash prize and exposure was also an incentive given what happened to Matt Dent with the last Royal Mint competition, although this is obviously something that is far beyond my expectations and, in all honesty, my aspirations. I really can't see myself winning any National competitions any time soon.
Successes
On a personal level, the main success was not being deterred from entering in the first place on the basis that it is a National competition. My attitude towards my chances of winning things like this is generally very pessimistic, and this may have deterred me from entering the competition, despite having nothing to lose.
I think this came from the fact that I'm genuinely proud of both the final outcome and the concept behind it, which isn't always the case in my work unfortunately.
Changes
Despite being happy with the outcome in general, when I was coming up with potential concepts and developing the chosen idea, I didn't take into account the scale of which the design would be reproduced in. This was a really daft mistake to make given that we only recently did a project on logos, where consideration of scale is vital. I can't help but wonder how this consideration could've improved the outcome, but by the time I'd realised this I was really happy with my concept and had spent too much time on it to consider changing it.
Going Forward
The king thing I'll take from this brief is that when there's nothing to lose by entering a competition, there's no point in not entering it. I also think that the issues I had with scale are an indicator that I need to consider the restrictions of a brief a bit more before moving onto developing an idea
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