I really enjoyed this semester of IXD, even though it was online I still feel like I managed to get a good start on this year on interaction design and I got a good understanding of the course ahead of me. I learned many skills so far and I also learned a lot of history…

Throughout the year I have been working on recreations on weather and travel icons/ apps. I knew I wanted to learn and practise my design skills at the start of the year. I found interesting app designs when I researched weather apps and I found this specific image, this is where I further took inspiration…

My final design poster I went with this design because I really liked the choice of colours and I also liked the way the ‘Palatino’ is slightly cut off at the sides. I used a lighter opacity so it doesn’t look as heavy. Blog posts about my progress: IXD102 – Typeface Specimen Inspiration for Typeface…

During these 12 weeks I have been keeping a weekly diary on all of the information and skills I have learned throughout the week. I write in it on the Friday after Kyle/Paulines class because then I get to summarise and add in my input on their lecture that Friday morning. I found that keeping…

To start my portfolio I began in my sketchbook. I started with rough sketches on how I think it should look in a black sharpie, I always like to do this first at he beginning of any project because it gets my brain thinking, therefore making me more creative for the project ahead. I then…

Our lecture on the Bauhaus was very interesting to me, I had never looked that much into it before the lecture and I’m glad I got to learn all about it. What did I learn: The Bauhaus was one of the most influential modernist art schools in the 20th century. Its approach to art and…

Q.How the Nazi attack on modern art in Europe changed art in America. I chose this title because the history and background really interested me. I found it fascinating that such horrid acts on the art and design community in Europe took place and for many of the artists this led them to having to…

In order to make my manifesto better I looked up artists like Jessica Hische and tried a more out there type face and I even tried my own takes on these typefaces in my sketchbook as I have previously shown, however I felt them too busy and hard to read. I wanted to go for…

Todays lecture was on the history of the internet and where it all started. What did I learn? I’m found the lecture very interesting especially the early discoveries such as Douglas Engelbart who developed interface ideas in the 1960’s and invented the first ‘mouse’. He is considered as one of the early computer and internet…