Allan Robb Fleming was one of the most influential Canadian logo designers in history. He designed the iconic Canadian National Railway logo in 1959, the game-changing Ontario Hydro logo in 1962, and the best-selling 1967 ‘Centennial book Canada, a year of the land’. Fleming worked as the Vice President and Director of Creative Services at … Continue reading “IXD103 – Pocket Profile: Allan Fleming”
Research on Existing Brands Little Wing (Local) Little Wing is a Pizza restaurant chain based in Northern Ireland. They are well-known for their fast-served high-quality pizzas. The restaurant is particularly popular with young people, with their customers ranging from students to school kids, couples and families. Students also can take advantage of the 20% student … Continue reading “IXD103 – One Week Branding Project”
Mock-Ups Final Designs Launch Screen Home Screen ‘Add Journey’ Screen Location Screens
Along with my set of icons, I also needed to create a series of illustrations for my travel app – three locations and an illustration for my home screen. I compiled a pile of inspiration in the form of a Pinterest board in order to help with my designs: I decided to go for … Continue reading “IXD104 – Travel App: Illustrations”
As I have began developing my ideas into a digital format on Illustrator, I need to develop a range of icons and illustrations to use within my app. Icons I came up with a few sketches of what I wanted my icons to look like before I started creating them on Illustrator: Home Icon: Search … Continue reading “IXD104 – Travel App: Icons”
In Monday’s class, we were tasked with digitising our monograms. Thinking back to last week, Daniel suggested that I develop my most recent monogram idea further, as it was the strongest out of all of them. I agreed, as I really like this design and feel that it captures my own personal branding style well. … Continue reading “IXD103 – Digitising Monogram”
To further develop my designs, I decided to create a Pinterest board to gather inspiration for my travel app. The board helped me to find a wide range of designs that I thought would be relevant to my own design. Using this board, I was able to come up with a number of new wireframe … Continue reading “IXD104 – Travel App: Further Research & Development”
In order to improve my illustration skills using Illustrator, I have recreated two cityscape illustrations. This process has allowed me to further understand the tools included within the software, and how to properly use them in order to create this desired outlook. It has also inspired me to begin creating my own illustrations needed for … Continue reading “IXD104: Master/Apprentice – Cityscapes”
After further thorough research, I have come up with the idea of producing a travel app based around using trips and locations in a social media, allowing users to record their recent trips or holidays, and view other’s recorded trips, and add each other as friends to keep up with where they’ve been. This is … Continue reading “IXD104 – Travel App: Chosen Idea & Wireframes”
After receiving feedback from Daniel over my first monogram sketches, I have decided that I want to take a second look at some existing monograms to find a specific tone of voice and theme that I want my monogram to carry. I want my monogram to hold simplicity and elegance, but also not be overly … Continue reading “IXD103 – Further Research & Sketches”