Whilst currently spending my evenings sifting throught every scrap of research I can find on 'flexible spaces' and optical illusions it occured to me to consider the design in my office. Like many, I'm sure, I have a 9-5 job a few days a week at Carillion mostly consisting of editing and formatting documents. To my great delight yesterday I was asked to design a mini brochures for the schools Carillion built in Leeds to give to prospective clients.

Simple in layout maybe, but I realised that for the first time in about 10 months I'm actually beginning to enjoy designing again! This is quite a break through for me, as I'm now starting to appreciate ervry-day design all around me and this makes me hungry to do well this year.

This is my starting point for the year. Trying to avoid completely the specifics which could be linked to "spacial design" such as theatre/exhibition set design. The reason for this being that this is where I slipped up big time last year. This is actually my second shot shot at level 3 design and I am not going to make the following mistakes again:

So, for now it's the felxible spaces. Thinking about the literal and non-literal manings to form a coherant project. This year I want to use what I have learned and gathered over the last few years at uni and incorporate personal interests, things that really excite me, attention grabbing and engrossing.