OUGD603. Extended Practice. Reflection and Reconsideration.

we had a PPP presentation in which we were asked to talk about the work we had done and planned to do in the time left for the rest of the year. we were asked to reflect on what we had achieved and where we thought we would be heading. i really enjoyed doing the presentation and felt like it was a really useful thing for me to be promted to reflect and to consider what i actually wanted to do.

i had already decided that i did not want to do the organic food packaging brief, the music tour brief, or the re-do of last years bouldering infographic brief because these were things that i was either not interested in or had already done. in terms of the bouldering brief, climbing is a pastime that i passionately enjoy but do not want to involve it in my work again for the time being. 

i had already made a start with the calligraphy publication and had considered some aspects of the clothing company brief and so found it harder to make the decision to drop these briefs too. 

i dropped the calligraphy brief mainly because of the time element. i had taken on a number of other briefs since the original planning of my self initiated briefs and so could not feasibly complete this brief to any professional extent that i would be proud of. i am very much interested in caligraphy and hand rendered type and so i feel that it is a shame that i have decided to drop the brief. i think it was a good decision to do so because i know that i would have either had to spend all my time doing it and so would not have been able to do some of the other briefs or i would have rushed it and not produced the outcome to the best of my ability. this brief is one that i wholeheartedly intend to pursue and produce after finishing uni because i feel i will have more time and less pressure to design and produce a quality publication.

the clothing company brief is another project i would like to pursue in the future, however, for similar reasons to the above i feel like it was an inappropriate brief for the time period i have and the other things i have going on.

the are a number of briefs that have replaced the ones i have dropped and these will be included in the blog with the formally written briefs produced and posted shortly.