Learning Agreement
Past Reflection & self reflection
In the past six months. After making the mock-up of the first portfolio. I roughly decided the style of production of the final portfolio. I think that a collection of works is like representing your design style. On behalf of himself. You can adequately demonstrate their research results as well as advantages. The first step in making this one from beginning Collections: began to organize their design work. This collection of works mainly shows all the design achievements of the degree level. The order in which most people make resumes starts with organizing content. The next step is to determine the overall design style. Or the need for a general framework. Need remained the same layout. (Combination of the design style of the portfolio, and then determine the typesetting.) After all this preparation, you can begin to formally typesetting. The process of typesetting still requires constant adjustments, and the spelling and grammar of some words need to be proofread. The final step is to decide how to print, and what decides what kind of paper that you want to use.
Before this, I have been using In-Design to create a portfolio. This time I used another piece of software to create a resume Photoshop. Although this is my first time using PS to create a resume. For me and me, it is still relatively easy to use the software. For example, I want to add some decorations is also very easy. You can paint directly on the page. Because you need to make sure that all the designs in this book are made by yourself. Whether the picture or design.
As a designer, we all have different shortcomings and advantages. Everyone has sections that are good at and not good at. Some are good at painting, others are good at typesetting, and some focus on design concepts. Of course, highlighting all aspects is the best. However, it is best to highlight what you are good at on your resume. For me, I am better at typesetting and editing. So this time I want to try a bit more complicated typesetting. It is also necessary to add some hand-painted illustrations to this work because it is determined that the style of the entire collection is biased towards magazines. So I refer to many different styles of magazines. Finally chose the overall minimalist magazine style. However, there are constant changes in the production process.
After this year, the weakest spot, and the most critical place was the timing. It takes too long to produce each page. Besides, when thinking is limited, it is confined to the same typesetting. Limit your thinking to a fixed range. Then the production time will be extended and delayed. It will stop at the same place.
Another disadvantage is that my painting skills are not stable enough. So at this time draw a final illustration, the emergence of bottlenecks. This time I like to add character models to paintings. Can better set off some wearing styles, as well as style. There are different styles of different papers. However, the painting is my weakness. So I hope to use PS to make up for some.
In this year's study, During the year I also learned a lot, with a new tool to paint, and also looked after so many magazines learned a lot of design layout mode. I hope to be able to do a collection of works that I am satisfied with. It may not be satisfactory to everyone. However, I have done my best. In the future, there is indeed a need for improvement in painting. It is not only the use of PS to improve painting but also the use of brushes to increase painting skills. I also read many templates. Imitation is just a process, and in the end, it will find its style.
After different competitions, there are various client projects. Can be more close contact with the design company, different customers. You can practice customer communication and conversation during your studies. This is a communication skill. Communication with people is also a weakness of mine. Not very good at explaining his ideas. Promote your work. I believe trust is mutual. Customers give trust to designers. Designers also hold empathy and get along with others. They not only have to explain their ideas but also learn to listen. For example, what we need to do is to trust our customers’ professional opinions on products and listen carefully: the original intentions of product design, past design styles, and what kind of target groups... When both sides hold empathy for mutual respect, Designed products may exceed your expectations. Every person's aesthetic is different, after all, cannot force others to accept the beauty in their eyes. Sometimes, the customer will also make some comments, for example, in my design, the customer also has many of his views, which part of the material is wrong, it is still too light. The production cost is too high or too low. Defects in design, these are the opinions we have to listen to patiently. Then you can continue to improve the design.