Design Practice 2 - Covered: Finals and Evaluation - OUGD505

I am overall extremely pleased with my outcomes for 'Covered'. It is one of the few pieces that I actually do like and am proud of, which in itself is a high achievement for me. What I feel helped within the brief is choosing a book that I actually engaged with and had interest in. I was extremely dubious about this brief initially, as I thought the dense reading and theoretical books would be off-putting, however this was just the opposite. 'Discipline and Punish' had views and thoughts that I completely agreed with, which in turn helped think about more relevant concepts and ideas. I think it helped developed my thought process, and think deeper into conceptual design. The idea of using an inmates time and space as the basis of my concept shows a clear thought process from content of the book to final outcome. What has also been a successful within this brief is pushing myself and having the confidence to screen print on my own. Screen printing has always been something I prefer the aesthetic of compared to digital print, but due to confidence did not feel I would have been able to produce successful work. This is what has changed within not only this brief, but the module. It has pushed me to use more resources at my disposal, and in doing so, has benefited my work greatly. Experimental work has also been a improvement within this brief, trying and testing out spot varnish (although challenging) is now something I would feel confident to use again. This I feel was one weakness with this brief, I think the spot varnish did not come as strong and as noticeable as I would have liked. This was perhaps due to stock. However know I have experimented with this, I can apply my new knowledge of the material to future briefs. 

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