So after I came back from Amsterdam, where I had my internship at awesome full service digital design agency called Tam Tam, I started to work on my final project. The final project had to be done in co-operation with some existing company. I was very pleased that I could do my final project in co-operation with Tam Tam. I was creating a concept and a design of printed Tam Tam magazine, which is supposed to be placed on coffee tables at Tam Tam offices. The purpose of the magazine is to give people, who are coming to Tam Tam for a meeting, a chance to get to know Tam Tam better. These people would be mainly clients, but also people coming for job interview or students.
From the time where we got back our approved problem formulation we had a month to finish this project. We had to deliver the product and write synopsis about the project. During this period we haveń t had any lectures, we had just several guidances with our assigned supervisor and than also one cross disciplinary guidance with different professor. So no one was really checking us how far in the process we are, we were the ones responsible for making project plan and sticking to the dates we had defined in order to finish and hand in the project on time. There were some day when it was hard to force myself to do something and be creative. Therefore we also had a sparing group which was not necessary a mandatory thing, but I had a friends with whom I could discuss my project ask them about feedback and we also help each other with theories and making analysis of the friends designs using some of the methods we have learned at school.
When we hand in our project digitally via wiseflow, we had about a week to prepare for our oral presentation and also to prepare our physical products. Luckily I choose to order a prints of my magazine by using blurb.com services, so I haven't had to spend endless our at UCN's printing room. This was a very good idea, because I didn't have to stress about being in the printing room with many other students and dealing with print problems.
In the beginning of the project it was weird to be back at school working on a project, because we had spent the whole semester out working at our internship company, so in the beginning it was hard to adjust again to all the academic requirements and remember all the methods and theories we were supposed to mention in our written paper. We also haven't been presenting a project in front of the teachers for a while, so it was very challenging and also bit stressful to make and oral presentation in front of the professors again. We were supposed to talk for 30 minutes about our project, which seemed to be very hard in the begging, mainly because I tend to sum things up and talk very quickly. Therefore I have prepared a presentation with lots of slides ...no they were not full of text, they were consisting of pictures, graphs, icons and notes, just to help me navigate and remember all the things I wanted to and needed to say during my presentation.
There were oral presentations scheduled for the whole week, my turn was on Tuesday right before lunch time. Presentations were private so there was just me, my supervisor and external examinator presented. I was really relieved to find out that I was able to speak coherently about my project for the whole 30 minutes. Both my professor and the external examinator were very pleased with my whole project and the presentation. I got a very nice feedback from them. The external examinator who has been working within the design field for many years in Aalborg kept asking me whether all of it was my idea or whether the company intervened a lot (no they didn't I had completely free hands). He even said about the design of some pages that it is very advanced design and that I have a good feeling for aesthetics, which was very nice to hear.
Then they send me out to so they could have a discussion about my grade and when they ask me to come back they told me that I have been given 12, which is the highest possible mark. I was very happy to hear such a good news.
work in process mess
very bad pics of happy Ela after uploading our final projects
binding up the synopsis
ready for oral presentation
celebrating time
