Studio Brief 04 Evaluation

Overall, the final studio brief of first year has been really enjoyable and successful, the final outcome that I have produced answers the brief really well and would definitely be something that the first years in September could use and hang up in their rooms to add some humour or to try and settle their nerves. This has been a really open brief which meant there were no tight restrictions in terms of final outcomes, however the response needed to either make a statement, comment, observation or give advice to first year students coming from our own experiences. This meant the brief was open to almost any kind of outcome and could be produced in anyway we wished. Choosing to produce my final outcomes in the digital print room meant the facilities of the college were being highlighted, another point the brief made. Although producing 6 outcomes cost me £9, I knew the quality of the prints would have no faults to them and I would rather spend a little extra money to know they are of the highest quality so a student would want to hang it up where they desired. The final outcome is also successful due to the fact students can interact with it using the various stickers provided with the poster, hopefully it will encourage them to attend each timetabled session, highlighting the importance of inductions but to also provide light humour by including the various nights out alongside jokes about having fresher’s flu instead of going to the fresher’s fair. This brief has also allowed me to work in a style of design that I am a lot more comfortable with and by including illustration on the poster I hope it would show to the first years how open the course is and how no ones style is the same, with encouragement from tutors to work in your own personal style (while still exploring others in different kinds of briefs.) As the brief was open to work individually or with another student, I am happy with the decision I made to work individually because it was the last brief of first year it was more comforting to know all of the work would be completed in time instead of the worry of relying on another student to complete work towards the developments and final outcome. Within the feedback I received on the final crit of my finished outcomes were positive, the concept was well liked and the overall finish of the outcome was received as high quality. The improvements that were suggested to me were that students might like this as a yearlong calendar instead of just one month. This would be a good idea however, the brief was focusing on students being fresher’s therefore choosing September 2017 seemed the most appropriate idea. If the brief was on for a longer time then creating more months on the calendar would of been a lot easier to do.