Reflection
In this 503 paper making my Timeline Poster and Publication, I have developed many skills. I have learnt everything about my allocated designer Müller-Brockmann from his work to his design method, his grid system, used in all of his work. I have also learnt Publication and magazine design and the process of making them.
In the first half of the semester, I learned new things while researching my allocated designer Müller-Brockmann which allowed me to learn and try an approach to a design technique that I wouldn't have known, his grid system. From learning about the grid system and how it is used, I have found a new fondness for it, in most typography designers use a form of the grid system in terms of placement and size. I will be incorporating the grid system technique in my projects and assignments in the future.
Throughout the second half of the semester, I have learned about Publication and magazine design. At the end of the first half of the semester, my goal was to learn InDesign, and now after six weeks of our lecturers teaching us the basics of InDesign, I am well versed. I have learned the process behind making publications and discovered that behind every magazine there are grids and columns to assign texts, graphics and Imagery. I will be teaching myself more InDesign skills in the semester break.
Things I would improve on is my willingness to research more extensively. I feel like on my Tumblr blog, I haven't researched enough. So next semester I will try to research more.
I really enjoyed designing my publication magazine and my timeline and I am proud of the work I’ve done. I am excited for what's to come in semester two.