OUGD302 - Managing my time

So todays been rather stressful! Got told past competition briefs didn't count at the mandatory competition brief, that it had to be one from this year. So within the next week I really need to look at some, start researching and creating. I'm going to try and put aside 2 / 3 days to do this.

My diary really has had an important part in keeping me up to date with everything! I've followed it so far, got into habit of planning my entire week on a sunday evening ready for the week ahead so I'm never stopping wondering what there is to do.

So Wednesday:

9 - 12 - Screen printing Accessorize Poster
1:15 - 2:30 - Illustration talk with Fred
Onwards - Design Accessorize floor graphics, wall graphics, the display standas and a look book.

Thursday:

9:30 Progress Crit
1:00 Drop in print - Accessorize posters, tags, boxes, bags, hangers, stickers
3:00 Create a default board, to apply Casa Mia and Doing my nut in brief
PM - Research competition briefs - Choose one

Friday:

9:30 - 12:00 Design for web
1:00 - Print drop in - Accessorise products
2:30 - Construct Accessorize products from print over 2 days
4:00 - Research for new brief
7:30 - Inpress Dock street

Saturday:

PM - Concentrate on starting competition brief

Sunday:

Concentrate on Dissertation

My Diary makes me cry.

So its been a bad day. My screen printing woes still hitting home, and now my ridiculous life schedual in the form of my diary. I live by it, day to day, sorting it all out a week ahead, but recently its been getting  beyond a joke as to how busy I am. It had made me realise maybe at some point I will have to take a break, before I break.

OUGD301 - Re-assessing Time Frame

After we had the group tutorial I was made aware that some of my briefs shouldn't have been as long as I was making out them to be. It was a really eye opening session and I came out clearer in regard to the length of my chosen briefs, when to start them, and when to finish them. I drew up another time line to make organising my time better and clearer in my head. It will help me to understand when I can fit other projects, briefs and dissertation sessions in too.

OUGD301 - To Do this week

Looking at my timeline and 5 briefs I've decided to list what I have to do this week in order to stick to my time plan.

Type Factory:

Research 6 typefaces

Experiment and research colour palette

Content of timeline - Collect

Design Branding and identity

Layout of publication - Research

Contact list of professionals based on concept:

'Show me mine, I'll show me yours'

Sending a piece of work to gain another for exhibition.

10 Things:

Research reading ability of target audience

Childrens books

Choose 10 topics - Research

Doing my nut in:

Collect Content - Organise

Research target audience

Accessorize:

List items to illustrate for both collections x2

Produce Initial surface pattern designs

Print range

Casa Mia:

Type a day - Continue

Come up with colour palette

Dissertation:

Make notes on 'No Logo'

Case studies - WallMart reseach further

Chapter

OUGD301 - Time managing my briefs

We had a workshop looking at how to go about time managing your chosen briefs, constructing a timeline for each based on the standard Design process of:

1. Idea Generation
2. Research and investigation
3. Concept Development / Clarification
4. Design Development
5. Evaluation and Selection
6. Production and Resolution
7. Presentation and Submission 

I decided the way I was going to approach this, was to use the above Design Process, but it becoming more than simple stages, and becoming a detailed outline of how I intended on completing the brief in the given time. I made a few notes first of how I thought the order of each of my brief would be, to take it into the timeline and become a more descriptive and detailed version. Without this workshop I would have really struggled to understand how to undertake such a large selection of work without losing my sanity. I know this approach will work for me, as I've done something similar, off my own back in time managing; I can't leave a list uncompleted by the slotted times. This way of time managing our briefs is an insight into how it can be done in the working world, and something I can see myself using.

Notes Taken:

Timelines:

Brief time management - Chosen Briefs time scaling

Doing my nut in

Content given
Obtain content, put into context
Research what tone of voice I want
What context is the publications going to be in?
Educational?
Informative?
Humorous?

Begin Research (few days worth)
Start Designing

Research time scale - 3 Days
Design Time scale - 2 Week s
Print Time Scale - 2 / 3 days
Binding time scale - 2 days

Casa Mia Re-brand

Content given for products
Photograph meals (find photographs)
On going 'Type a day' project

Type a day timescale - 2 Months
Design time scale - 1 Week
Print time scale - 1 Week (screen print)
Finishing - 3 Days

Start After Christmas

10 Things

Research Driven
Obtain research, attain content
Research Library areas
Research Childrens books
Illustrative material produced after research

Begin Research now 
Start designing

Research time scale - 1 Week
Illustration time scale - 1 Week
Design time scale - 1 Week
Print time scale - 3 Days
Binding time scale - 3 Days
Finishing - 2 Days 

Type Factory

Research Driven
Students work to attain
Promotional Material
Design now, event after christmas

Research time scale - 2 Weeks
Attaining student / professional work - On going over brief start to finish
Design work - 2 Weeks
Print Time scale - 2 Days
Binding and Finishing - 2 Days
Producing and holding event - 2 / 3 days

Accessorize Autumn and Winter collection

Illustrative material
Driven by products in store
Products determine illustrative content
Pattern design 
Design Now

Illustration time scale - 1 / 2 Weeks
Pattern Range Design time scale - 3 Days
Design work - 1 Week
Application of Pattern to design material - 2 Days
Print time scale - 2 Days
Mocking up - 1 Day

OUGD301 - To Do

Dissertation:

Finalise dissertation title
Case study - Ashington - Research
Sign up for tutorial
Blog Notes

OUGD301:

Blog Casa Mia Photos
Annotate
Annotate A2 Sheet completed listing skills
Write Rationale for each brief
Contact Ashington Council
Contact Parents / Teachers

PPD:

Tasks (before next week)
1. Things you didn't know before your summer break
2. Things you would address differently than you did this summer
3. Specific things you will address this semester, that should be useful
4. Things you feel we could address as a group
5. Things you feel we have not looked at in PPD you personally would like to know about in reference to professionalism

Linkdin - Sign up

Attend more craft fairs

Organise event

Self initiated work - Produce more for Etsy

Produce better Mail out

Contact more studios

Top ten things - Time keeping

Over the course of this module, I've had countless to do lists, action plans a gone through a serious amount of sticky notes. Its definitely help keep my head together, and made me realise what needs doing and when to be sure to meet the deadline.

Good is...? - Time management

Me quite simply keeping to my action plan!

Time management - To do

To do

• Listen to lecture podcasts - Make notes > Blog
• Further research into Weehouses
• Research packaging > Start designing
• Blog logo development > Vectorise > Look back to brief
• Lorenzo task
• PPD tasks
• Enterprise Task
• Good is...Get designing
• Blog print samples