Evaluation

What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
I feel i have found i have increased skills in working in a collaborative and trying to combine my styles and ways of working with someone else. Trying to come to some agreement is another of the skills i feel i have established as working as part of a collaborative and feel i have managed to apply them quite efficiently.

What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

I have documented my work more so and the development within it a little more than before and its helped in producing images on the boards. My approach to generating work changed slightly through this module to compensate for working with someone else. It changed through balancing the work load within the time available.

What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalize on these?

The strengths within the work is that of the effect on the paintings of "vandalizing" and i feel the effect is a strength within the work. Another strength within the work is amount of layouts that were tried and images produced; i will try capitalize on through improvement and possible continued use.

What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

I feel the work could have been a bit less digital as it might of improved the quality of the final resolutions.I feel that time management was an issue within this brief causing me to rush towards the end. I feel I could have had a wider range of ideas to choose from than what was actually handed in. Another weakness within my work is possibly the annotation of some of the work within the sheets and on the blog.

Identify five things you will do differently next time and what you expect to gain from doing these.

• Time management
• try alternatives within an idea
  
• more ideas developed and expanded on
  
• annotate more
  
• look at more possiblities

How would you grade yourself in the following areas:

Attendence 5

Punctuality 5

motivation 4

commitment 4

quantity of work produced 4

quality of work produced 4

contribution to the group 4

YCN boards

We had some problems when producing the boards as the images we had of the frames wasn't high res enough for an A2 board so we needed to adjust the image. Firstly i tried using macro photography and photographing the frame in sections and piecing the photo together but none of the images sat together properly. Nick vectorized one of the frames and we ended up using it on the boards.

All designs

All the designs we've created work well. they would i feel work better with a better quality image of a frame

designs

I quite like the current designs we've got and the designs are looking quite strong

beer mats2

I prefer these beer mats to the others but these dont really reflect fusions as much.

P.O.S

I don't know whether i will continue with this or not but i feel its something we could do.

Developed beer mats

I like how these have turned out but i might want to try the idea without the mona lisa behind.

Beer mats

i decided to develop the idea on to beer mats. i felt that the Jimmy Hendrix image we had created was quite strong so i decided to continue with the idea and develop it onto the beer mats. 

After deciding on the style to use Nick suggested trying it across 4 beer mats that would sort of fit together. I think it works better than a single beer mat.

Framing and mounting

After further development we decided that the images could possibly be framed and i think that they look better framed as i feel it allows the painting to sit better on the page.

Testing the colour

I wanted to see if the image could be adjusted to suit the Beck's green but i feel it distorts the image too much and feel that you don't really recognize the mona lisa as much and is almost lost.

Further developed

we decided to continue with this idea and after nick had mocked it up digitally we decided that i developed the design whilst he focused on adjusting the style of the logo to fit more with the design of the image. He also began to go through possible combinations of artist and musician.

Idea development

Together we tried to see how the ideas would look developed. we both quickly produced some pieces to see which idea worked the strongest as there was two that we felt were the strongest

I like this idea but we felt it doesn't quite communicate the fusion between art and music and felt that the other idea was stronger and felt it would have more of an impact. I also feel that the idea although working on the concept of "different by choice" doesn't really reflect the drink nor the fusions events that occur an is not very informative of the events involve. 

Ideas

I started drawing up some of the ideas which had discussed whilst nick started on adjusting the logo. 

Becks Adverts

beer ads

Beer Ads

These are a few beer ad's i found whilst researching...

Research

We're both doing research which we have divided up evenly. i'll be researching:

• Famous Eccentrics
• Pryotechnics
• Culture Jamming
• Beer Ads and Brands
• Digital media
• Alcohol Guidelines
• Branded products

BECK'S

Me and Nick will be collaborating on the Beck's Fusion brief hopefully both doing a fairly even amount of work.