Designing a cover, spread, and department page based on the publishing class's ideas was a challenge. Their ideas were fresh and exciting, but there is a lot of narrowing-down to be done.
That being said, the critique portion of the class was really useful so far. Getting feedback from everyone on paper will be invaluable for sure. One really helpful thing about doing critiques with Jan has been her specificity. In class, we often try to tell each other when something could be improved, which is great, but Jan seems to pinpoint what could change and offer a suggestion with it. I really like this method of critique because it is solution-based. Perhaps the whole class could adopt this method in our weekly critiques to make the sessions even more valuable.
Agreed. But it is hard when you're still learning about design to critique as well as Jan is able to. It's something we should certainly aspire to, and it's something I'll be working on in the future.
ReplyDeleteIt's frustrating to hear that a page you've made just isn't working when there's no suggestions on how to fix it. I completely understand and I think everyone probably feels the same.