Final Weeks of Studio + Entire Semester
The last three weeks have flown by so fast! I am sitting here, coming to the end of the last week of uni - with mostly of my work done. The only stuff our group needs to do now is to set up our studio - add all the extra bits we have needed to complete such as the process book, children’s book, posters printed etc.. I have also realised that this could potentially be my last blog post for the semester, which is a scary thought.
A little update on what has happened over the last 3 weeks leading up to submission (which is 4 days away):
Website - Our friend, Walter has kindly designed and coded our website for us who specialises in this and gets paid for doing tones of design work. He developed a website in a few days that showcased our personality as individuals, as well as the brand, Doodle Dolls.
Children’s book - Katriel and Sophie have been working on this section, with Kat doing all of the drawings and colouring, and Sophie getting it binded this week.
Packaging - Sophie was working hard on completing this, though she unfortunately didn’t feel well near the end of week 12 - therefore Amanda took over and started to design the inside and cover pages for the packaging. We kept to the same colour scheme as the website.
Statement Writing - our group managed to write up the first 500 words of each statement that was the same - to then go into the next few hundred talking about our individual processes and concepts/research. Ben gave us a lot of feedback on this and stated that writing the first section as a group would be the best way to keep it consistent.
Portfolio/blog Update - I have updated my portfolio, with a new design and new information on Doodle Dolls. I am currently updating my blog.
Posters - This task has taken a lot longer to process, where I have gone around in circles for the past week developing these. After developing our three posters (Two freestanding poster banners that will stand on the side of our exhibition + a huge wall banner with all of our contact info on. All posters will be 600x1600mm and will be printed externally), we were able to gather feedback from a couple of lecturers. Ben’s feedback was by far the most critical and comprehensive. We did unfortunately gather this feedback after we sent the posters to the printers, resulting in a stressful email to the company asking them to delay our printing until we could make the changes. We learnt our lesson straight away - to wait for all feedback before we sent them off to printers. About 24 hours later, Amanda and I came up with new and improved versions. We don’t think they are perfect because we were pushing for time, but we hope the lecturers especially Ben, appreciates the improvement.
Process Book - This was my job over the last two weeks, which included the collation of everyones write ups for each section of the book (we had roughly 80 pages worth of content - including images and references). This process was also a lengthy one, where I individually designed each page for the book, labelling each file in order so I could combine the pdf’s, and then print for my first iteration to take back to the team and get any feedback. A few things were changed, though we kept a lot of what Ben’s feedback was from the posters, and I tired to implement certain aspects into the book, to follow the theme and communication. This will be getting printed tomorrow in time for Monday’s deadline.
The final bits and pieces we are finishing off now is our construction of our exhibition and the final bits like printing out our statements for assessment etc. 4 more days left and we will be all done! Very excited!