What do I want to achieve?

What do I want to achieve this year?

• A greater understanding of the design industry especially ones that are concerned about sustainability. I would like to find out more about what goes on inside 'green' or 'sustainable' design studios and what designers are doing to make their practice 'sustainable'
  

• A clearer and more focused design process/development. When starting a new project I would like to have a more systematic way of approaching possible solutions but at the same time not so much that I lose the creativity and freedom to play around if I wanted to.
  

• A better understanding in typography, layout design, sustainable design and branding. These are the areas in Graphic design that I am becoming more and more interested in.

• Web Design Skills

• A better presentation skills
  

What do I want to achieve by the end of the course?

• A focused direction / areas of Graphic design that I am well skilled in. I would to be able to confidently say that I am a skilled Graphic Designer with at least one specialty that makes me different from everyone else (eg. Type)

• A well put together portfolio both print based and web based

• I would like to have had some an experience in the Graphic Design industry ( internships/ work experience).

• I want to become very knowledgeable about design and sustainability.
  

• Be confident in my typographic and layout skills

• Become knowledgeable about the different fields of Graphic Design I am interested in, especially, Sustainable Graphic Design and Editorial Design

What do I want to achieve in my career?'

• If not at the end of this course....I would like to know exactly what the values within my design practice is and keep it.
  

• Work in a design studio that is concerned about sustainability and where the value lies highly within social innovations and impacts of design on the environment.

• Not lose my ethics

• Be financially stable.

• Be happy about what I'm doing and enjoy the work.

• Have a strong network of people and designers who have the same values as me. People who I know that I can work with in order to achieve the best possible results on whatever I'm doing

• Not lose my creativity when trying to compromise with other people who I'm working with or practicality ( printing , etc)

• Be successful