Pentagram Design Studios Pentagram is the world’s largest independent design consultancy. The firm is owned and run by 24 partners, each of whom are leaders in their individual fields. It was founded in 1972, by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, and Mervyn Kurlansky at Needham Road, Notting Hill, London. The company has offices in London,…
Vic Bell Illustrator, Iconographer and Brand designer Whilst using the Uber app, I always noticed the undeniably cute icons… little did I know, I would be researching their creator, Vic Bell. That’s the beautiful thing about Interaction design… It is all around us, even if we don’t recognise it all of the time. Since discovering…
What/Who are the Nielsen Norman Group? The Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) are a UX research and consulting firm trusted by leading organizations world-wide to provide reliable guidance on user experience. What is User Experience? User experience is the overall experience of a person using a product such as a website or computer application, especially in…
Visual Inspiration from the film itself. The beginning of my wireframes… …
The web essay… What do we have to do? Our most recent project has been to develop an essay on a chosen area of graphic design, which we will write an essay on and furthermore develop a website, to display it. It will allow us to combine our skills and information that we have developed…
Group Presentation – Design Systems for the Olympic Games Aim of the Project… In our group of four, myself, Sarah, Saskia and Laura had to choose a design movement to research and create a presentation on. As a group we decided on… Design systems for the Olympic Games. I am a big fan of the…
One of the first projects we enrolled on here at IxD was to create our own Type Specimen posters. Although I have never made anything like this before, I was so excited to try something new and push myself out of my comfort zone. When researching Type specimen posters, I found a lot of them…
Kyle and Pauline recommended a unique Netflix series called “Abstract”, which has different episodes exploring various styles of art and design. Although I intend on binging on the series, I decided to begin with watching the episode which relates to the areas I feel that I need to improve on most in IxD, to see…
Todays lecture was about Human-Centred design, touch points and we also learned how to use Markdown, through starting our own GitHub and word editing device. I decided to use brackets. Above you can see the Miro board we collaborated to create as a class. It features a lot of out of the box thinking, about…
For our 100 iterations project, my group and I decided to focus on food that are point shaped. Through looking out for these certain things, I was amazed to realise just how much of the world around in is a circular shape. I took inspiration from many different areas, including the grocery store… Pinterest and…