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Interior Design 1 Part 2 Assignment Feedback Reflection

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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.

Interior Design 1 Part 2 Assignment – Digital Presentation of Research

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Reflection

My process for completing assignment two was initially to read the assignment outline, then read and read again to be sure I fully understood what I was to do. For some clarity I contacted my tutor about work which could be included.

Secondly, I undertook research into visual presentations and how best to present the message I wished to convey to my audience. My audience I considered to be my tutor, students and those who are interested in the history of Nottingham and or it’s Lace Market district and those interested in the design decisions behind the Nottingham Contemporary.

Further to this I wanted to display a variety of the work I had completed/gathered, whilst ensuring it related to relevant information and provide a narrative.

Lastly, I considered my design which I wanted to link to the building. This took some working until I finally decided on my final piece. This is based on colours of the Contemporary’s exterior, the angled walls which I have referred to throughout my work on the Contemporary and I framed most of the images – like pictures in an art gallery.

I enjoyed the process, particularly as I was learning yet another skill – effective ways to present. Without feedback I am not yet sure I achieved this yet but it was helpful to consider it and play with different ideas. I feel I’m a little limited as currently I only have PowerPoint available, I expect it’s possible to create better quality presentations with a more sophisticated design package? I have however signed up for an adobe creative cloud course in July at which point I will purchase the software too.

The process has been valuable in furthering my knowledge and skills in; visual presentation, design styles and decision making – considering the most valuable and relevant visual and written information to provide.

One thing I’ve found disappointing about the process is that there is no assessment criteria to check against, even though the assessment guidance tells students this is what we should do before submitting work to tutors? It worries me there will be key criteria which I have not quite hit the mark on.

I am pleased with the outcome but also feel it is a little basic and that it’s possible to achieve something much slicker and more minimal. This will probably take better software and more experience and confidence in design and presentation skills. When I was researching presentations, I enjoyed and admired those I viewed which were very minimal yet conveyed their message well. I did not feel confident enough to leave too much information or images out, in order that I display a variety of work.

With continuing learning, skills and knowledge I hope one day to achieve the look and quality of some of the presentations I viewed – and create something minimal while effective.

I expect to incorporate this process in continuing practice in may ways; creating mood boards, presenting design ideas to clients and creating a portfolio of work.

Reviewed work after feedback from my tutor – with more of my own opinions