Assignment 20

3/11 Evaluate Design Comm. Talk about both successes and ways to improve the course.

This DesComm class was extremely beneficial to me personally this quarter as I was able to tailor the projects to benefit my career goals and work up my mechanical and storytelling skills.

Being able to be judged based on the career path that I am following helped me much more than having to do work that was exclusively for class and for a grade.

While doing the portfolio portion of the course, I think it would be beneficial to find portfolios from designers and artists that are not from our school, and potentially not from our major. This I think could expand our visual palette from the style of portfolios that we are most used to seeing, and strengthen our skill in story presentation.

The course was well-paced, and crits were always the right length and purposeful. Breaking down portions of some of the later projects into smaller group critiques was also helpful and kept the pace of those projects moving.

All in all, the course has been extremely helpful to me.