I picked this Graphic Design course because of many different reasons, I wanted to learn all about graphics and gain the best understanding into the practice, id didn't just want to be given briefs then left to work on them on my own without gaining anything. The amount of contact time was really important as I felt this would help me and I felt this course had the best balance. There’s only a small amount of students which allows use to have time to talk to the tutors but also gave use lots of different opinions and different views to influence our practice. The course takes on people from different backgrounds, which meant that I’d had a wide range of different styles to influence my work, I’d never had this before, its had always been the same people with the same ideas, same teaching styles. I think this course is a fresh new chance to expand my ways of working while developing my working practice in a way I’d enjoy and combine with other creative people.
I want to learn; I don’t have the best technological education into graphic design process so I wanted a course that helped me lean new ways of working rather than just expanding on how I already worked. Learning Illustrator and InDeisgn is something that is important to my progression in graphic design and I haven’t done before, this course giving workshops was a major reason it picked it, and I feel they’re really useful and will help me expand my work using different techniques and let me have full control of my work as well as being used in industry. I want briefs that push what I know and my styles so I create new ideas and develop my skills with detailed feedback so I know how to improve. Take me out of my comfort zone, allow me to do things I’ve never had chance before because its so guided yet free. The briefs give us a task but we can change that any way we want and interpret it freely, I feel this works best for me because my main strong point is concepts. I thinks of loads of idea but struggle to actually make they look professional, I want to learn how to make my work seem industry standard before I leave, create briefs I’m actually happy with and want to show. could I not the field I felt this course would help me as it has wide industry links but also had tutors that are experienced into he fields and can help me understand how to work in that environment.
When I was researching into which course to pick a main factor was employment rate, graphics/advertising is a very competitive market, I need to make sure I give myself the best chances into getting a decent job after my degree. I felt the 96% employment rate after the course gave me a very good chance to start of my career, hopefully giving me a kick start into the industry in the best way I could. I just hope I’m not the 4%.
I think this course will give a good way to expand my skills and take my ideas further, into different medias, different areas of design because its just an art university there is many different ways I can work and use the other course for my benefit. Step out of my usually just graphics style and experiment with 3D, printing ect.
The main inspirations I have are other design styles and designer, I see work and want to try that style or experiment in that way. I can always see how work can relate to my project or my ideas, artist bounce off each other and sometimes a fresh new idea can make help you improve your work by encouraging thinking differently. Ideas always come from somewhere and taking ideas but making them your own by changing them or using techniques allows designers to expand their work. Even if its just a colour scheme I like or a style of text that works, simple parts combined with idea allowed my work to be as vast and explained as I can. I take a lot of inspiration from adverts, I love adverts, all of them even the rubbish ones. I have the opinion that adverts work if they provoke any sort of emotions in it audience, even if it’s a negative emotion grasping attention in the new modern world is hard so any response will work. Adverts that make no sense are my main inspiration, they leave the audience thinking or confused but intrigued and wanted to know more, this is very hard to do to make people want to research or understand is a complicated concept and doing it amazes me. This styles influences me as it inspires me to try hard to get into a place where I can create adverts and be as free as I like, or to create ideas that promote a company and rebrand it in a different way. Bad adverts/graphic design inspire me too, I feel a need to work with it and change it so it isn’t so offensive, I feel that business relay on graphics massively and the failure of a company can be because of it.
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