The Usefulness of Peer Reviews
by workbymariahroth
Yesterday, Friday November 16, our studio had a peer review regarding where our designs where and our presentation style for final review. I forgot how helpful peer reviews could be in refining my presentation style. My peers helped me understand the readability of my presentation from a juror’s view point. From their comments I noted all the little comments that add up on a presentation. For example my style of labeling my floor plans, I know that adding furniture and color coding is the best style (for myself) so that everyone can easy and quickly understand my plans. Another major category I got comments in was my rendering technique. For one, most everyone thought that purely line rendering conveyed a good amount of information and that if I cleaned them up they are excellent, without material or color. This was surprising to me because I thought that each perspective needed rendering, I am planning on looking into this further so I can decide if I like this technique. Second, I learned the style of the one rendering I did, prismacolor marker, was not as successful as I had hoped. The marker gave an unwanted grain in some area, while in other the grain greatly helped. I was given the suggestion of watercolor pencils, so I will be looking into this technique and how I can encompass it in with my rendering style. A third category of my presentation was my bus depot. I had lost the readability of my bus depot within my floor plans. This was a wake up call for me because the bus depot is something that I have worked with since the beginning to incorporate and the last thing I want to do is lose it when I present. However, I believe small changes will fix this and allow my bus depot to read accurately. I believe this peer review was extremely helpful and gave me many things to work on and refine for the final presentation.
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