Module evaluation

Over this module, I think it is really free because we can choose any brief that can be beneficial to our future career. I really enjoyed working on all the briefs in this module, especially on those client briefs, I believe these briefs are very helpful to my future career because I can learn a lot of new things during the exercise so that I can enhance myself to become a good and professional designer.

Generally, I did a lot of briefs were related to the Japanese culture which exactly fit my interest. The most unforgettable brief from this module is the "Sakura Festival in Leeds" as it is one of the biggest events in Leeds in June organized by a group of Japanese students from University of Leeds. I am really happy and glad to work for the organization as this was my first time to work for an organization instead of individual clients. I felt more challenging than working for individual clients because the design has to fit what everyone in the group wants but not only a single individual.
Luckily, all of the members appreciate what I have produced so it made me feel more comfortable. During the brief, I learned a lot of Japanese culture for example what is "Sakura", which I am happy with. I remember at the initial stage of this brief, I had a meeting with the members of the organization to explain my ideas and plan which was found to be really useful in the further development because I could know exactly what the organization wants in an easy way instead of just communicating through the social media. Hence, I think if I have a chance to work for any clients, I prefer having a face to face meeting at the beginning to understand the precise requirements and avoid making any mistakes.

Due to the fact that the weighting of the module is the highest(60credits), therefore, I spent most of my time working on this brief. The time planning and management of this brief I think was quite good because I have enough time to complete this brief. I remember during the first semester, most of our classmates including me were only focused on the COP3 project as it had to be submitted by the Christmas so I was really stressful at that time because I was wondering if I could finish this module by the deadline or not. Luckily, in January, I started to push myself working on this module everyday so I am able to finish this module. I set a target for myself which I need to do at least a blog post and development every day, and it was quite successful so I am really happy with that.

I think the room for improvement is to try more on hand process development because usually I just developed quickly with the hand process and stayed with the digital development. Hence, I really need to do more on the hand process.

Most of the briefs that I did from this module were focused on branding/campaign designs which fit to what I like the most in graphic design, I am sure this is a great chance for me to improve, develop my specific skill in this area so that it can benefit to my future career.

Overall, I really like what I have produced on this brief even though some of the briefs only short and quick briefs but generally everything that I designed was indeed what I wanted to achieve. This module is really helpful to significantly improve ourselves in the design industry.