Evaluation

Annie Baker - Original Design 

Within the project I feel as though I have shown my skills as a designer, the past projects over the years have really helped me gain the experience I needed to grow as an interior designer.

I feel like I have challenged myself during this unit, experimented with different media and techniques, finding new surfaces, textures and shapes that I never have before. I have learned that being more playful and expressing myself really does help when drawing and also when being a designer.

Starting off by using found objects from the home to create individual drawings; capturing surface and texture has been my aim throughout the projects I have been given over the years. With this project my aim was to add more pattern and shape into my drawings doing this would add more depth and dimension.

Whilst drawing and printing I started doing some wallpaper deigns to help me see how some of my drawings looked when I repeated them, some of these were successful and others I had to go back into my drawings and change them as they didn’t look quite right as designs.

Researching wallpaper collections also helped me along the way as I could see how differently companies did their own repeats and how they created surface and texture in their designs.

Along the way I could see I needed to be more critical of my own work and so I would sit down and think of good and bad points to help me gain my own understanding of how and what works best, I did this mostly when I brought colour into my work it became a big part of project. I used it to try and create depth into my designs, creating different shadows and different shades of one colour, doing this helped me with the offset in Photoshop so I could see where and which colours would go where.

Time keeping with this project was very important to me, as I have learnt my lessons over the years that it is a huge part of being a designer and I finally think I have found how keep up with all my designs and daily life. Having my own issues at home with this project I found that turning to designing kept me going, as it’s what I do best and what I enjoy.   

I feel that my designs are very unusual and not uniformed were as 90% of the wallpapers out there today are very structured, mine show my more playful side.  

I have gotten better at techniques needed when designing broadening my skills, I feel like I can take these with me after graduating from university to become a great wallpaper designer.

I am looking forward to the degree show, being able to showcase my work and have other professionals from the industry come and see it. Exhibiting for me will be a new thing which gives me great excitement and will help me gain even more experience within the design world.

Designing is my happy place and makes me feel alive; I enjoy printing with found objects and tools to make my own bolder, creative prints. Manchester Metropolitan has helped me become an individual wallpaper designer and helped me gain all the skills I need for what will hopefully be a very bright, successful career.