General Comments
This project has been by far and away my favourite project of the course so far because of how it’s brought lots of things together for me, including previous projects, software workshops, talks from visiting professionals. But I think the most important thing I’ve gained from this project is an appreciation of how PPP links in to the rest of the course, something which was somewhat a mystery to me last year. The below two posts explain this further.
In my rationale I spoke about how my recipe card and menu card have different audiences, I wouldn't say I've lost track of that, but I think the way both outcomes look mean that this isn't particularly obvious as they have a consistent style. I don't see this a failure because it doesn't make the outcomes any worse, but at the same time it's not really a success because it's not what I aimed to get when I started out.
Successes
I’ve always struggled somewhat with the use of colour (as documented in the PPP linked posts), and I feel the workshops we did for this have gone a long way to helping me with this problem. Subsequently, I’m very pleased with my use of colour in this project.
On a more personal level, this project gave me more incentive to interact with the design industry, even if it was just requesting paper samples from G.F Smith and uploading a file to be printed on the back of a playing card, but these are both things that I wouldn’t have done before for whatever reason. Because of this the finished project is of a higher quality than it would’ve been otherwise.
Changes
I honestly wouldn’t change anything I did in this project. I’m very happy with it. The only thing that I’d do differently would’ve been to start it earlier than I did which would’ve given me more time on it, allowing me to take it further. That said, I generally take a long time thinking about a project before I start it, as explained in the first brief of the module, so I can’t be too disheartened about this.
Going Forward
This project has made me feel a lot more confident about my abilities as a designer and my willingness to be more open-minded about and interact with the industry. I personally feel this came from me being pleased with and proud of the work I was doing in this brief, whereas this often isn’t the case, this is particularly prominent when you compare this project to something like my J2O brief in Responsive. This has highlighted to me the importance of being pleased with your work, which, while it sounds stupid, isn’t something I’ve thought to be particularly important in the past.
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