OUGD406 - Speaking From Experience: Crit

Today we had to present our proposal boards. We signed up to crits with about 5 or 6 in each group. Our group consisted of Ellen, Harrison, Adam, J'nae and Vicky, Sam and I. We presented our work to Simon and two of the third years. All of whom gave us really useful feedback listed below:

• It might end up making homesickness worse - maybe need something to distract them
• Specific gender? Will boys use it?
• Create stamps online and send away the design
• How big will it be?
• Can you re-design stamps?
• How many are you going to produce?
• Cost?
• Stock?
• Focus on one idea
• Postcards instead of envelopes
• Recipe book you can write in yourself is a really good idea, more homely and personal
• Really important because a lot of people are homesick
• House box idea is amazing and makes it more interactive
• Really nice concept and well thought through design wise
• Consider time and cost
• Really like the concept of handwritten letters and recipe book
• Great design boards
• Production costs?
• Good use of primary research
• Really like the recipe book idea
• Well thought out idea
• Recipe book one of strongest ideas and could tie in envelopes and letters to coicide with that idea