My tutors’ feedback for assignment 2 was positive whilst providing guidance and advice into areas I need to consider and/or improve on. One recommendation was to articulate and inform my personal views and opinions into the spaces I investigate, and include a personal visual identity in presentations – both things I can find a little tricky at times. I can be overly cautious of writing my opinions where they are available for others to see and criticize. I’m worried others will see me as foolish, think my views wrong and essentially feedback with things I might not want to hear about my work or views. I realise this is something I need to get over if I’m to articulate my opinions and present work to clients. This Interior Design course is forcing me to do this however. During the last part of the course students were asked to display work for feedback on the student forum, which I did, not something I would have done if not asked. I did however find the feedback was kind while being constructive and useful.     While I am still learning however, I worry that my opinions are not informed enough – regardless I generally always have an opinion and will aim to voice this in the future by considering, reflecting on and including more of my personal views in assignment pieces and exercises. I’ll also aim to make the time to go back and rework some of this latest assignment to include more my own views. A personal visual identity in presentations – again not something I am overly comfortable with, but will do. I had however not considered it as something that was required but now I have been informed otherwise I will include in future work. Another component of my work which I had overseen and not considered the importance of is providing wide shots to place images in context. Now that this has been mentioned I can of course see how helpful this is to viewers. This will be easy for me to rectify in future exercises. I described the changing light within the Nottingham Contemporary galleries and reflected this in the rework of my model. I however did not consider taking the model outside in the sun to photograph as suggested by my tutor – something which I have now done and added to my blog. I am really pleased I’ve been informed of this and have undertaken this exercise as I can clearly see the improvident in the effect of these shadows and appreciate the clean crisp lines which my tutor explained would be provided by the natural sunlight. My tutor once again suggested I try overlays when sketching to provide contrast and convey information, this is something I did attempt during part 2 but not sure I managed it too well. I will keep practicing with this. Another area I need to give more attention too is presenting my visual information on a whole. Now that I have been asked to give this more thought I feel a bit daft that this is not something I have been doing in the first place! I do sometimes feel constrained by WordPress and what it allows me to do, or what I know what to do with it but I realise I could do more with the presentation before submitting to WordPress. I’m still a little constrained by Powerpoint but no excuse for not at least using Powerpoint to display work with more aesthetic and designed qualities. I still have some work to submit for my Part 3 which I will submit with more consideration to this. Something I am aware I have not been doing enough of is research into other practitioners and designers, which my tutor has suggested. I know this is something I ought to be doing. I guess I have been focusing my available time on completing the course work thus failing to give the appropriate time to the other work which should be undertaken hand in hand with the course – after completing this reflection I will spend time considering at least one designer, for now, that I can spend time researching. Once again the feedback from my tutor has been really helpful for me to realise where I have been falling down, or just not giving enough thought to  – and to continue to help me thing wider.