This year is coming to its end and I would like to make a post describing my
feelings about my first year at London College of Communication and more
specifically about my course, FdA Design For Graphic Communication. During the
first days of the university I faced some problems for two reasons. Firstly, the most
of my classmates are older than me, and some of them have previous experience
on Graphic Design, either as students on another course or as freelance graphic
designers. The second problem was about my English Language, as it is the first
year for me living in UK. Although, I faced these problems very quickly -2-3 weeks-.
About my progress and development on my studies I am really happy. I started with
a really bad grade on the first project - Graphic Design Fundamentals- (D) because
I did not know exactly how it works in general. Further more, I had some difficulties
on how to manage my time till the deadline and finally I wasn't very good on Adobe
Indesign. The previous years (IB program) I used programs like Illustrator and
Photoshop.
From the Term 2 till the period now I feel really developed. Firstly, it is very
important the time management I do for each project and the term overall. I have a
schedule and I try to be as consistent as possible. Secondly, I learned a lot of new
things on InDesign as I worked on it on a daily basis. The final and very important
fact that helped me was that I looked and researched on many different projects of
both my classmates and professional Graphic Designers. The development of my
work was obvious for both me and my tutors as my grades increased (B, C). Even
on my blog you can see the difference. It started as a page which was updated
every two weeks. Now the links are more to the point ant the comments about my
work are more professional even if the use of English language is not very good.
On the second year of the FdA I need to work harder in order to make my grades
even better and pass for the top up of the BA. The FdA is a very competitive area,
as the area of Graphic Design Industry in general. My goals for the year coming is to work
very hard and take very good grades. Also I want to start working more on the
facilities of the university like Screenprinting, Letterpress, 3D workshop,
Bookbinding etc. I started using some of these techniques on the third year, for my
Major Project.
Moreover, I want to start doing more creative things on my free time like exhibition
visits. I think that this would be very helpful for both my studies and my future in
general.
Hope you all enjoyed my blog!!!
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