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 …
week 10 IXD102 – Essay Webpage
Writing my essay: Adding html: Initial sketching: These are my wireframe designs for my essay webpage on Josef Muller Brockmann. I tried my best to incorporate Brockmanns designs in throughout the page however I still haven’t decided on a colour theme and the designs need refining further: I started off by sketching a…
week 5 IXD102 – Pocket profiles – Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson – ABSTRACT Olafur started off by telling the audience to “collaborate with him” by turning off every other form of light surrounding us in the room. he then told us to look at the screen we were viewing the documentary on as a lamp. He held up the three primary colours of yellow,…
week 3 IXD102 – PROJECT 1 – Type specimen screen designs
My type specimen screen designs for “Helvetica” This poster was to be created for an iPad display of 768×1024 pixels. After looking into the different font options we were given I decided to use Helvetica. I began by looking into the history of Helvetica and how it’d been used in the past. I found that…
week 2 IXD102 – PROJECT 1 – Research for type specimen wallpaper screen
For our assignment we were asked to choose from 6 typefaces and create a type specimen screen for an iPad of 768 x 1024 pixels in Illustrator, Sketch, or Figma. We were given the following typeface options: Baskerville Futura Gill Sans Helvetica Palatino Times New Roman After some research into what each typeface looked like…
week 1 IXD102 – Pocket profiles – My response to Wilson Miners “When we build”
I found this presentation incredibly inspiring and it made me excited for my future as an interaction designer. The quote from Marshall McLuhan that Miner referenced at the start was a recurring subject throughout the talk – “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us”. This quote was interesting to me as I’ve…