Overall I am happy with the work I have submitted and I really feel like I have learned a lot these past six weeks. I taught myself how to do digital illustrations from scratch which is a valuable skill that I am very interested in expanding. My understanding of the intangible elements that make up a good design has grown rapidly; now I can see these elements in other designers work, whether it is an advertisement for a brand, or an illustrator I've found on instagram. The intangible is the most important in my opinion as it seems to be the part that really gives life to the design.
In spite of this, I can see that there are so many things that I need to improve on. My hierarchy of elements and visual flow needs improving as this was something that I really needed to work on and change at the end of this process. It was also something that I didn't notice myself until someone else pointed it out to me. I need to learn to pay more attention to this in my design as it could save me so much time by not designing something that needs to be completely reworked.
I could also do with implementing stronger intangible elements, although this was my first conscious attempt at this so I don't think I did too badly. I think I have a pretty good understanding of typographic elements such as widows, orphans and rags but there is always room for improvement in this area as well.
At the end of the day, I enjoyed this assignment although I am happy it is out of my hands now.
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