I am probably not the person to ask when it comes to solid critiques. I love seeing the best in things and mostly have trouble telling people to change something or, in this case, to critique them. It’s not that I can’t its just that I feel bad, and I don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. But to be honest, I have come a very long way since my first semester. If you had told me to critique someone, I wouldn’t have said anything. Not that I would have known what to look out for specifically then. But, over these past two years, I can say that I was able to develop a decerning eye and how to critique someone. So now, in this blog, I am going to critique my first-year self. I have done a lot in my first year, so I will probably just do one thing, but I will try to do more in the future.
I chose to critique my Info Poster from my first year’s first semester, so I was pretty new to this. Looking at my poster, I see lots of things wrong that I could change to make it better. First, I noticed that I wasn’t the best at typography. I am still certainly not the best at it, but I have noticed an improvement. Seeing how this is a text-based design, any text in this poster could have been better. In some places, the text is too thin and hard to see, and in one place, the text gets way too close to each other.
The style had the right idea, but there were still many flaws in this part of the design as well. Besides the test, I would say there is too much blank white space. I think it might just be the background that is the problem. There could have been a way better way for me to do the background of this poster to make it look better. Overall, I would say the only thing I did right was the images.
Critiquing myself was very harsh but necessary. I think that being able to look at and learn from my past self is very important to my development as a designer. I believe learning from my past self will help me know what to avoid and what to work on. And I entirely believe that learning from past mistakes is very important and a good skill to have, not just in this situation.