My Design Process - OUGD504 - Level 5

Studio Brief 1 - My Design Process
During this week you will design and produce a folded leaflet entitled “My Design Process” that describes your understanding of the design process and specifically how you apply this process to your own work. This assignment will allow you to explore the nature of design at an increasingly commercial level while also exploring creative approaches to leaflet design and folding.This brief is only one week long and therefore will be very intensive. You will be given support by your tutors in the form of crits and tutorials while studio tasks will focus on aspects related to constructing and designing leaflets. You will be expected to explore and experiment with paper and card stock: folding techniques and styles; and graphic concepts and communication. Your progress, developments and creative decisions should be documented in your studio blog.

Mandatory Requirements

All research, development and decision making should be documented in your design practice blog.
Your work including research, experiments, developments, etc. will be presented and neatly labelled on design boards.
You must demonstrate that you have explored and considered a range of material, folding and printing formats in developing your leaflet.
Your leaflet design will describe and explain the design process and as such your design should reflect your understanding of ‘process’.
Your work must be accompanied by an evaluation of at least 500 words.

Deliverables
A completed leaflet printed and folded
A body of research and preparatory work
Folded card stock experiments (with annotations)
Evidence of contextual research (the design process, communication, creativity, etc.) that informed your work.

In todays studio session we paired up with the people sitting next to us and began to note down the general design process and problems, stages we encounter when working on briefs.

We then had to create diagrams of our individual processes. Here is my design process, I will have to later on add to this and tweak it because given the time we had to formalise our processes I couldn't properly finish. We had been informed to create the design process in the form of a flow diagram or other methods of interpreting information and visualising decision making. This brief is important because it is creating more awareness around the decisions we make as graphic designers when doing work. We discussed about our own processes in class and the ways we work. Looking at other peoples processes helped give insight into other little methods that others may have not done much of. It made me more aware of things that I should do more often.

The new brief is to create a folded leaflet with the contents, being our own individual design process. This brief has given us the option to make the leaflets personal to ourselves and our methods of working. It allows us the link the contents and the way the leaflet is folded together.
We began experimenting with different ways of folding paper.