last session of 09

In this session we learned about who we were as designers in an interesting new depth, we had this scale and had to place a mark where we thought we lay in creativness and how much we would charge for work, I thought that I got into the college at Leeds so I was obviously at least above the Y axis, so I then thought I was about 45% of the way up with where I would place myself, At the moment my confidence is not very high due to a lack of free lance work, So I don't believe I would charge a lot for the work I produce, Just what I think would be reasonable for what work I produced/ what I was producing.

We were then asked to fillout a questionairre which involved rating ourselfs out of ten being extremely and 1 which is negligible after this was complete we then had to choose our 5 highest ranked, mine where.

1 Decisive

2 Humourous

3 Calm

4 Team player and

5 Open

After i chose these we were then assesed by another person to what they thought of us, the results where then

1 Decisive

2 Humourous

3 Energetic

4 Team Player and

5 Generous

and my bottom 5:

1 Prudent

2 Sincere

3 Perceptive

4 Ingenious

5 Dilligent

Which I think is an even better come back than I had expected/ gave as my top 5.

we then had to answer the following questions to task 2:

How often are you asked to use your top 5 within your studies/ work?

I'd say that decision making is crucial and happens all te time within the briefs and life for that matter, energy is a posative thing to have in keeping keen to doing the work which is very much needed in order to be on time with all the work, team player is always handy but isn't always a problem in the studio unless the studio is full and an order has to be given for using equiptment. Which keys in with being generous and sharing etc

How does that make you feel?

This makes me feel quite good to know how much of a posative person I am to have on the course and does make me happy that I am seen that way.

How often are you called on to use your bottom 5 studies/ work?

The bottom five are some of the five words I struggled even understanding until i looke into them, I believe that these areas are used quite as often as my top 5 so I need to try and incorporate this into my workm uch more often.

How does that make you feel?

This is a bit off putting but gives me a strong goal to aim at and gives me an added confidence in myself that I am heading in the right direction.

After this we then were asked to write 3 statements about ourselfs and select ten words out of them, My statements where:

- Overall I believe that I am a very approachable designer that supplies freiendship and humour to the design group which would make everyone relaxed.

- My main ambitions are to criticaly improve key areas in my design practice, I believe I need to do a lot more team things in design terms so i can feel more comfortable if I was put in a group in a future carreer.

- According to my questionairre I am a very social designer that shares a posative impact on designs as well as a critical one and is willing to help anyone who needs it.

From these sentences I chose the following words:

Approachable

Friendly

Adaptive

Team

Conceptual

Honest

Opinionated

Critical

Logical

and Decisive.

This then makes me realize that I am a very social designer.