Evolution

Once again the familiar clicking of keys fills the room as I sit here wishing the words were flowing so easily to my fingers. Already I have fallen into old habits and deleted this second sentence three times, hopefully now I’ve admitted my sins it will remain! So, the start of a new semester and I have to say it hasn’t been as painful as I’d anticipated. I think the three weeks off over Christmas were essential in allowing me to regain my drive after the arduous and challenging last semester.

I have to admit i felt completely drained leading up to the holiday and when it arrived it didn’t feel like Christmas at all. I was no longer a human being but had evolved into a highly tuned machine, spouting out page after page of assessment material. It took a good few days to switch this machine off and return back to planet Earth. Similarly when yesterday arrived I still felt a week behind, but rather than being a finally tuned design machine, I was a letter posting one! Now, a day on, I feel my head’s finally in the right place and I’m feeling really enthusiastic about the new semester for a number of reasons.

Firstly, the new projects seem to offer the right level of challenge combined with the opportunity to be creative. Obviously I favour A6, the Typography unit, as I feel it has more freedom and I enjoy the challenge of producing work under pressure. I’m apprehensive about A5 as I’m sure the building of the website will present equal, if not more, challenges. The problem is that they may be challenges I’m inexperienced to cope with and inevitably this will lead to considerable frustrations. However, I’m trying to approach the task with an open mind and I did enjoy experimenting with Dreamweaver yesterday, so fingers crossed!

Along with the prospect of interesting new projects I’m also in high spirits after receiving the feedback on A3 and A4. I’m ashamed to admit that, briefly, in the holiday I seriously considered my motives for continuing with the course. This was mainly due to the severe financial concerns bought on by the festive season. Self doubt is never a good thing and just for a moment I questioned if I would ever become the designer I hoped to be. Receiving the positive feedback from Steve and John yesterday really meant a lot to me and eliminated any doubts still residing in my mind.

So, to conclude, the going is good. I'm committed to achieving my full potential and now feel certain the investment I've made to achieve this will pay off. The first two days of the new semester have been very productive and I feel I've made a solid, considered, approach to both units. This week I hope to spend more time familiarising myself with Dreamweaver. This will hopefully allow me to analyse how to build my proposed screen designs. In terms of A6 I need to process the research I've gathered and gather some paper based sources. I also intend to complete some InDesign tutorials to enable me to work more effectively on the imminent timed tasks!