Learning Objectives:
- Design and refine your final project outcome.
- Communicate with peers, staff, research groups and industry professionals to refine the delivery of your chosen project brief.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to gather feedback and ensure your project aligns with your target audience
Lecture Reflections
This weeks lecture focuses on critical feedback and I have in the past struggled to tae this on board but I have soon learnt that this process can only make me better and this is something that I see in my students. When I look at the work that I have submitted in this MA I feel that it does not best represent me and the feedback reflects this. I am hoping that these two projects for this assignment better reflect me and my skill set. I have received positive feedback from peers and parents with the Cornish legends book. I have however received mixed reviews for the mental health and schools idea. Last week I sought feedback from students, I explained the idea and presented a series of visuals. While the students liked the visuals, they were unclear about why I was re-designing a classroom space. I think that I needed to clarify my ideas and focus my attention on the key design principles. Utilise these to design better spaces.
Design Principles in action
Last week I aimed to focus my work with the design principles, I had applied these ideas to a problem and culture within education. I started to develop a series of visuals that would go along with my principles. I continued to develop the space but at this point, thinking about the feedback from students I wanted to explore a range of ideas that encompassed my ideas as concepts.
Book Cover Top View Mockup by Anthony Boyd Graphics 
I started to think that the design principles felt like a manifesto and so started to think that they could be published as a guide to mental health within schools. These mockups show a layout and idea for the manifesto. Another idea that come about based on the design principles was to promote clubs and support within the school. There are plenty of emails that fly around and the excel sheet that in pinned to the tutor board in every classroom, but do students really pay attention to these? So I developed a series of uniformed posters that promoted these clubs and the support that is available.
Pixels and Serifs. 