Monday 29 February 2016

Moguh presentations feedback

Tutor Feedback

An innovative concept spanning both UK and Netherlands (Rens and Youri)
to gain market presence and ‘kudos’ in terms of establishment in a new
business. The discussion that ‘we can handle it in our Eindhoven office’?
Inter business pitching is expensive and doubles cost, but as a start up, it offers more potential to achieve better outcomes through choice.

Costings and construction of your business is thorough and realistic and can
illustrate that a little more than rudimentary research can yield solid information.
The idea of retaining a percentage of your profits to fund ‘internal’ and private work and to fund development is a good thing and has positive tax benefit too.

As mentioned by having something ‘personal’ or ‘specific’ such as your name is 
a good extendable identity and as I mentioned this is what ‘SNASK’ did and as was mentioned the ‘smile ability’ element in trying to get the name pronounced correctly is a good one.

Well presented and shared , good video and explanation…proves rehearsal is a benefit and works. Tone of voice and clarity needs work as well as taking control of ‘pace’.

Well done and you can build on this if you feel like it?
Blog all the feedback and try to rationalise what you thought of this project, helpful. informative or too business  oriented?

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My own personal reflection

I personally was very happy with the feedback that we received. We said a lot more than we even expected. As a group we weren't also very confident individually to speak but after rehearsing it a multiple times the day before and a few hours before the presentation we were all very surprised with our outcome and very satisfied. 

I believe this study task was helpful because it definitely helped me grow in my confidence. I get very nervous if I have to present in front of everyone however once we started the nervs went and I could just speak fluently to the class. 

Personally I hope we do carry on Moguh as it is something that built my confidence up as well as my self esteem. This has been one of my favourite briefs as its almost as if we were in the real world discussing figures, prices and more and I believe we all loved working together. I do hope that more briefs will be set like this as I believe I personally am a team player as was everyone in my team. 

The brief wasn't too business oriented as we got pushed to the limit of understanding how a business runs and how much it takes to create a bond and a team together. This has definetely opened my eyes to start with someone on my course in something that I love.  

Thursday 4 February 2016

She Was Only Studio


She Was Only is a very popular studio as all three of my flatmates have decided to write about this studio. I personally love their work and how they use various printing methods throughout their work. Their aims are to create visual communication that has a real and lasting impact on your audience. She Was Only do fulfil their moto as their work is very visual and uses different methods, techniques and materials to show that across. 

However, I personally am not a fan of the website. It feel as if the website isn't complete to me. Although I like the simplicity of the titles something is missing for me. I am not blown away by the amount of space that they have left in the top left of the website. I don't believe the website is the best although their work shows that you don't need an eccentric website to showcase your portfolio. 

Forestry Studio

Forest is a vibrant, simplistic looking studio. Their work is very minimalistic yet very effective with their use of colour. The studio fits into the wider world of designs as they focus mainly on publishing. Their publications are very easy on the eye with subtle vibrant colours to make it more eye catching.  The website shows how they use various media and how broad they are when coming to publish their work. 

The website is very fluid and has an intuitive way to navigate around the content. The images themselves are very large in comparison to other studios. This shows that the they are very confident with their work and want to showcase it to their clients.  I personally really like their website because its very easy to navigate around their website. I also like that they only have two tabs one about them and one on how to contact them. This is all you really need as a designer therefore I would like to potentially take this forward for my own website. I really like the simplicity and how their work is practically their website.