Communication reviews:
Communication reviews entail presenting your final design to the rest of the course and tutors. This is something which since joining uni I have found incredibly difficult. However, this particular review felt very different, I didn’t feel nervous or anxious about it and used it as a tool to improve my work. I believe that I have developed as a designer over the past year and have become more confident with presenting my ideas to a group of people. This is a very important skill to have, especially as a designer and, therefore, I am incredibly happy with my progress during this project and term.
Marking my visual and verbal communication review was one of my tutors John, he said he was very impressed with my work and although the computer screen did not load all of my work I was not panicked and calmly and collectively carried on with my presentation. A technical fault was not ideal during my presentation however, I believe that this has enabled me to realise that I can remain calm if things do not go to plan and also has shown me that I have grown as a designer and can adapt to difficult situations well.During the reviews, I was inspired by other students on my course and their ideas and way of designing. I found it incredibly interesting to see what other people have designed and how they got to that point within their development. Alongside this, as the module was focused on sustainability it was intriguing to see what different materials and manufacturing techniques people were using to obey by the ideas of the circular economy.
During the communication design section of the module I polished up my final design and started to Render my SketchUp using the programme Vray. We started learning about Vray at the start of last year and I now feel very confident and comfortable using the software to make my designs look realistic. One thing I like about Vray is that you can change the intensity, colour and direction of light within the space. This is incredibly important within my design for this project as my main aim for the space was to ensure that the environment is lit with different coloured lights. I believe that I have been able to successfully render the space to make it feel like it is encompassed with a variety of different lights. I am very happy with my final renders, however, if I was to do this project again I would increase the detailing within my renders and also make sure that they were rendering at a very high-quality resolution. Unfortunately, my renders have not come out with the best resolution and therefore, this is something which I will need to work on for my next project to ensure that the renders are produced to an extremely high quality.
The image below is an example of my renders which I created for this project:
For my project to marked I needed to transport all my drawings, SketchUp renders and research onto a photoshop document. I had never used photoshop before coming to university, therefore it was a skill which I needed to learn quickly. I am incredibly happy with my progress within photoshop and am impressed with the editing I can do on their to enhance my final design proposals.
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