A girls view on Menswear

Catherine Smith Senior lecturer, Personal & Professional development, School of Graphic design, London College of Communication - A PDP can transfer reflections into blogs, diaries, writing - Add personal feelings, should be a diary on work rather personal/ social life - Make a separation between work and play - A PDP shouldn’t be in academic writing, in the way the individual writes - Subjective - Its very important, everything has an audience, you must be able to talk about your ideas and feelings - Treat PDP like another person, as a friend, somebody to talk to, share problems - Learn how to articulate work and justify your ideas - Don’t write for somebody else to read, write for yourself - Writing can be a challenge, keep it simple - Different formats; write to yourself, blog, make it visually interesting - Make it feel as though its ‘you on paper’ - If you find it uninteresting or boring try a different format - Experiment