Week 6, Session 2

Today was our last day in class. We started with an hour of studio work and then we all looked around the other classes. I enjoyed seeing the other classes work and seeing how other people interpreted the same brief as us, everyones work is so unique. I felt that the standard of work was very high and it may have been helpful for us to have interacted with the other classes more before hand in.

We then spent the rest of the class doing studio work. We had a talk to Matt about our brochure and tweaking our website. Everything is coming together and I'm excited to see all of the elements together. We are printing our poster and brochure this afternoon a few days before hand in to leave room for any printing errors but hopefully it will go smoothly.

I have really enjoyed this paper and I have learnt a lot from it and my lecturers. Me and Greta worked well as a team as we both have strengths in different areas. It was daunting to start with and has been lots of work but once you nail down your theme and get everything started everything falls into place.

- Laura

Week 6, Session 1

Today in class was supposed to be the last lesson before hand in but hand in ended up getting extended. In class today we spent the first hour going around and critiquing peoples work. This was helpful but ended up adding a lot of work for only a couple of days left until hand in.

We got quite a few suggestions about what to fix up but we got told that overall it flows cohesively. We spent the following two hours fixing up our work and getting advice from the teachers. This was a good chance to be together and get some final things sorted. Laura and I have been very busy over the last week so needed some face to face time to sort last things out.

I feel confident going into hand in as we have basically finished and are just fixing up some last minute things and recommendations from class. Overall I have enjoyed doing this paper as I have enjoyed working with laura as a partner we bring different skills and work well as a pair. This paper has been a lot more demanding than the other parts but is good to collaborate all the things we have learned.

- Greta

Week 5, Session 2

Today's session was mostly studio time. It was time to refine our work after getting all the feedback from the interim critique yesterday. In this session we were working on making sure all the design elements were cohesive and getting all of the details sorted.

Our hand in has been extended till Friday I found this helpful as we are able to get that last critique on our work in the two classes while still having enough time to act on it. Overall I am feeling really good about our work. I think we work well as a team and everything is coming along how we want it to. I am excited to get our work printed and see the final result. 

- Laura

Week 5, Session 1

It was our last interim presentation in class today. We felt like we had done alot but we had one last thing planned that we were going to stick together that morning and we were not able to so therefore were not able to show the class our brochure all made up so it was quite hard to understand for some people.

Overall the critique went well, it was very helpful having a critique sheet that was so detailed it also was helpful to critique others work because it made you critique your own more harshly. We got quite positive feedback which was good a few of the improvements people told us to make were things that we had already picked up on ourselves or needed to be explained further.

We managed to sit down with matt to discuss the new layout of our brochure. This was very helpful as we didn't know weather to do a long one with quite a lot of information or a very short quick tips one. He was able to give us some ideas of what we could do but overall liked what we had done with the brochure so far. Moving on we just need to pull everything together and get through all the last things ready for hand in. 

I feel that we are well on track and I am feeling good about our work as we have worked hard with it and are still enjoying doing it and working as a team.