Today was our presentaion to Tom from James long, at 11am we placed our neatley headed samples on the table and offered him the gorp file we had worked all week on. He was very impressed with the samples themselves and liked our use of print techniques, foils and fabrics. however, he wasnt so much impressed with our group file - mainly that of the illustrations and the technical drawings. He mentioned the illustrations were not communicating the samples very well - something that perhaps could have been avoided if we had perhaps used collage or even photoshop to create our illustrations, then worked back into them to give texture and to make them pop. To a degree, I agree with Tom. I feel that with the illustrations, we could have used more interesting media other than just felt pens. However, this is someting to learn from for the future an now that we know this we can use this knowledge to benefit ourself and make better designers for ourselves. He also suggested we made our file a little more creative and interesting as there was a lot of white negative space, but i think we may have been afraid to let lose a little and to keep things quite clean.
Although it was a nerve racking experience, we learnt from it and tried to imprve on the points tom made before our exhibition the following thursday.
On the morning before the exhibtion, me and Nicole met up at the London Scottish House to see the exhibtion space. The other girls were attending a lecture so were coming later on. Sarah suggested that we needed to add extra support to our file where the samples were pinned in, so in reaction to this me and Nicole headed toward the Union to buy some card to support the file. Unfortunatly at this pint i had to leave Nicole as i had a job interview, which the group knew about previously and were to meet nicole after the lecture. I was a little stressed i couldnt help set up, however, the girls did a fabulous job doing so.
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