My group had the theme of Futurism/ History. Working in a group was exciting and I think I achieved and learnt a lot from it. I found that the people who were participating the most in the group where the ones that wanted our final poster to be of good quality but also the group meetings to be rewarding, these people also took charge more of the group. I think our group also showed how a group would work together in a design company, as within this there is usually one person who organises the entire group and makes sure they are all on the same track. Me and another student did this together, but this became quite hard when one student wasn't co-operative. We tried to share out the responsibility and tell her things to research to encourage her to work but this kind of cooperation wouldn't happen in a design company.
We created a timetable together of how we would work within the week and we met up twice to talk about our progress and give feedback to one another. Before piecing our mood-board together we did research into how design companies created there's. We found that the images of the sub-categories within the theme are always grouped together to make it clearer and so we decided to do this also. We chose two people to be spokes people when we did the presentation; me and another girl, as we thought it would be a lot for one person to take on, but more professional if only two did it, with the whole group standing together.
Working in a group has affected the way I will work with others in the future as I have learnt that communication is important, also cooperation and taking joint responsibility for things because I have learnt there is always something else you can do, a different approach.
