Evaluation for Autumn Term work

I feel I have identified weaknesses in my work in these self directed briefs. I feel the my time management is unorganised in order to fulfil my briefs and complete my work successfully. I need to actually make use of student support to help plan out how I will produce my work and help build upon skills that i have already. I feel that once I have set myself a task, I find it hard to generate ideas and get confused about my ideas, rather than choosing an idea and working on it as my final piece. I think i also need to improve upon the quality of my final pieces and take them from within my work and develop them more on their own. I found with my illustration brief I liked using mixed media in my images. I liked the results I achieved and I feel I could develop this and use this in future work. I found it helpful doing old briefs as I actually have something to work towards, as I found it most difficult setting my own targets and briefs as I became unsure of the direction I was going to take. I liked my projects that mocked famous artworks of Damien Hirst and the Times Art Supplement. I like the way I used the subjects behind the artists, like the artist who used the fluorescent light and I questioned its position but with the sticker "Art or Rubbish". I used this theme to produce five images of famous artworks with the same tongue in cheek style. I felt this was the strongest of my art projects as it questioned my role and values as a designer. With the typeface/street art brief I was happy with the work I produced however I found myself struggling with how to develop it as I knew I had to produce an A-Z of street art but I didn't know where to take the brief. The end piece was not developed properly as I did not take my time and the final presentation of my image was simple and could of been developed better. In the future I feel I need to organise my time with briefs, have briefs set out for me rather than making my own as I find this more difficult to begin with. Once I have started my research I find it easy to get going with my development ideas, however I could not do this with my self directed briefs. I will address this in my next projects.

illustration Brief

illustrations brief

PUMA brief

Poster for a D and ND brief trying to raise awareness of the Puma brand. My idea a Puma shop on a routemaster bus.

STREET ART brief

A selection of type A-Z

Times Art supplement My interpretation of these famous "art" works

Damien Hirst’s ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (1991) was first shown in the Saatchi Gallery and later nominated for the Turner Prize. The work features a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde. It was sold for nearly £7million in January 2005.

Carl Andre produced a series of minimalist brick sculptures during the 1960s. 'Equivalent VIII', in the Tate collection, became a subject of national discussion in 1976 following an article in The Sunday Times 'The Tate drops a costly Brick'.

‘An Oak Tree’ (1973) by Michael Craig-Martin is on display at Tate Modern and consists of a glass of water on a raised shelf. A piece of text below the shelf explains Craig-Martin’s argument that the glass of water is in fact an oak tree.

American artist Dan Flavin worked almost solely with flourescent lighting.

Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999.