Exercise 1: Describing an inanimate object without saying what it is Object 1- A kettle: I help people from the minute they wake up in the morning to the second they go to sleep. I’m their helping hand at dragging them out of bed and preparing them for the day, and their comfort after a…
IXD103 – Templo’s identity for the Climate Change Committee
The rebrand of this organisation includes an eccentric colour scheme, and a tranquil yet bold approach to data visualisation in order to avoid the cliched, overused environmental logo trap. The Climate Change Committee is the UK’s adviser on tackling climate change. It consults the government on emissions, targets and reports on the progress made in…
week 7 – Book analysis of “Don’t make me think!”
Don’t Make Me Think is a book by Steve Krug about human–computer interaction and web usability. The overall goal of the book is that a good UI should let users accomplish their goals and navigate the website/ software as easily and quickly as possible. within the first couple of pages he explained that when designing…
week 6 IXD101 – PROJECT 3 – Song specific research into “Follow the Rhythm”
My chosen song: “Weight” – Brockhampton My chosen lyric “In due time, the skies will split for the sun to smile” Brainstorming possible imagery with a mind map: Establishing key imagery: Drawing from that: Establishing imagery: imagery idea #1 Include yellow and blue/ warm tones and cold tones for the contrast between the bad time…
week 8 – IXD101 – John Baskerville project
Github link to Baskerville project: https://github.com/Bethixd/johnbaskerville Version 1 – marking up text using HTML5: Version 2 – adding CSS styling Version 3 – adding google fonts: Version 4 – Adding images and a table: …
Week 8 – IXD101 – History of Type project
the link to my Github with my type history project: https://github.com/Bethixd/typehistory In this project we were asked to create a webpage about typography designers throughout history. We had to mark up the text with HTML5 and then style it using CSS and add images. These are my 4 stages of how the webpage was…
week 6 IXD101 – PROJECT 3 – Artist specific research into “Follow the Rhythm”
Poster lyric ideas: I felt that the first step in creating my poster should be to research lyrics of a few of my favourite artists. Only from there would I be able to determine the style and composition of my poster: “In due time, the skies will split for the sun to smile” – Weight,…
week 7 IXD102 – PROJECT 2 – Creating a powerpoint presentation on design history
Deciding on the structure and design of our presentation: First of all we decided on the topics we would talk about during our presentation. We felt that 8 different art movements would be a good number given our time limit of 10 minutes, and as we had 4 people in our group we allocated 2…
week 6 IXD102 – PROJECT 2 – Design History Presentation Research
Deciding on our topic The second project for our module was to create a presentation based on one of the following titles: Bauhaus and the New Typography Design Systems for the Olympic Games The Influence of Modern Art The Modern Movement in America Pioneers of Postmodern Graphic Design Pioneers of Web / Digital Design After…
week 11 IXD102 – Essay Webpage (Figma planning and GitHub link)
Figma planning/ wire framing in more depth …