Final outcome evaluation

What I like:

• I think that the work I have created fulfills my intent of evoking a feeling of science, space and technology. I like the ambiguous and abstract quality of my final outcomes, especially in the collage pieces, as I think something more conceptual does well to reflect the idea of space and the unknown. 
• In the postcards and poster I feel that my use of collage has been really effective, I think I have demonstrated a good understanding of how to use shape, colour and composition to create impactful and dynamic imagery. 
• I think the poster is the most effective in communicating Carl Sagan - what he believed in and tried to communicate to others. The amount of negative space combined with the scale of 'the pale blue dot' and the sunbeam creates this idea of vastness - referring to the insignificance and humility of humankind. 

What I don't like/could improve on:

• I like the concept and idea placed behind the stamps of using these mathematical diagrams, but I don't think my crafting of these was as high quality as my poster and postcards. I think that using the grey paper did affect their visual quality drastically when edited in photoshop. 
• Also when thinking of all of this work as a collective piece, I do not think the stamps work as well together with the rest of my outcomes. I feel that this comes down to the media I used - compared with my collage pieces it just seems flat and out of place. I also should have used a colour palette of black and yellow - in order to match the colours in the rest of my work.

Something that I have definitely struggled within this brief is translating my work onto screen and then in good enough quality to digitally print. Through this process I have often found that you lose your intended colour palette and the handmade quality of the original work. When looking at the final printed outcomes I am pleased with the postcards, but the poster and stamps I feel have lost some of their visual quality through the editing and printing process. This is a shame as I was really pleased with the original work - I guess that learning what media works best within this process will be something important to develop within my own practice.