Live Project PDFs
This document provides an overview of the work that you have done as part of the
Live Project, your rationale for undertaking these projects, your decision making
along the way as well as your evaluation of the experience.
The reason we have asked for a PDF is because we don’t get that long to mark each
project and a summary of your work helps us to look at what you think is important.
We will read all of your PDF but will only read some of your research.You will also
hand in all your other work in the usual way, but you don’t need to especially
organise this work for us – that’s what the PDF is for – to make sense of your
research and pick out key examples.
There are no set rules to how you should layout your PDF but here are a few
suggestions of things to include. Your PDFs might have more emphasis in particular
areas or you might want to organise it differently, but broadly speaking these are the
type of questions you should address:
Your name (obviously!)
Rationale
Your rationale for picking your live projects – what did you want to learn.
A list of the projects
What projects have you done – make a list or organise by project titles
Have they been client / community or self-initiated – how are your projects ‘live’
What was the brief – what were you asked to do?
Who were the clients – who are they / what do they do?
Don’t forget half finished or abandoned projects as well
Include a proportional sense of how much time you’ve spent on each – did you work
on each project evenly? Some might have been one day projects etc
An overview of your working process
What were your research questions
What informed your decisions – what’s your thinking
How have you identified relevant communication / design issues
Trail and error – show examples
Reflection on the process
How did you develop your ideas – lets see an overview of progress
Feedback from clients / audiences
Create a summary that gives an overview
An evaluation of the project
Finished artwork
Include images that represent your finished work or as finished as they are at the
deadline – lets see some pictures
Evaluation
Do your final pieces work effectively in response to the brief – how and why? Where
were you at the start of the project and where are you now – what have you learnt,
have you enjoyed the experience, what has is taught you about being a practitioner,
what skills do you now need to develop, how does this inform your thinking about
work placements, what next?
