Pre-Submission Crit with Simon

I was feeling rather anxious ahead of my pre-submission crit this afternoon, as I felt I was rather behind. Infact after speaking to Simon, I feel pretty ahead of the game as I have pretty much designed all my design boards and it seems like all my projects are almost there. I keep forgetting three weeks in plenty enough time.

The crit was a chance for me to speak about my "writing language" as I feel it isn't in-depth as I am well aware that I use rather vague colloquail language on my blog. I have no problem with writing, however when it comes to writing about my own work, one struggles! I really wanted to know the difference between blog and design board language. Some points Simon and I raised which I need to take on board when it comes to writing about my own work/research:

• Always ask WHY? who what where when and why and all that
• Think about whether there are any Historical/Contextual referances that I could discuss, for example Arts & Craft movement
• Justification - Always justify what I am doing
• I like the colour pallete... why? is the colour calming, would the colours work in this are there any connnotations etc
• Use summative language on my design boards 
• It is okay to use first person