Jessica Donnan

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Studio Dumbar is a highly respected and influential Dutch graphic design agency, known for its work that has helped shape both local and global design for the past four decades. The company was founded by Gert Dumbar in 1977. Later…

This week, during Friday’s class, we took a look at the history of the internet. Vannevar Bush Dr Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator. He headed to the US during WWII, where he emphasised the importance…

Link to Github: https://github.com/jessdonnan/web_essay Writing My Essay Introduction Michael Bierut is one of the leading and most innovating artists of modern design. A graphic designer, design critic and educator, he has spent the last four decades striving to represent and…

Aoife Dooley Aoife Dooley is an illustrator, author and comedian from Dublin. Her body of works involves a number of mediums, such as illustration, typography, graphic design and sketch comedy. She currently has a web series called ‘Your One Nikita’…

This week during Friday’s class, we took a look at Postmodernism. Postmodernism Towards the end of the 70’s, many artists began to feel that modernism was drawing to a close, and there was a climate of cultural change. There was…

We were split into groups of four to develop and present a project on a chosen topic, based on one of the following titles: Bauhaus and the New Typography Design Systems for the Olympic Games The Influence of Modern Art…

Modernism This week’s class taught about Modernism, which was a period of art that began in the 20th Century, after the end of the First World War. It was made up of a number of key definitive features: Reject traditional…

Ustwo is a Lodon-based software development studio which focuses on digital design. Their work centres on producing clean and elegant user interfaces. The company was founded in 2004, by two best friends “Mills and “Sinx”. The company originally started out…

De Stijl De Stijl style was developed as a reaction to the First World War in the 20th Century. The founders of the movement were Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, who were looking for a cure to the individualism…