This week we were tasked with completing some more master/apprentice exercises, this time for data visualisation. Here are the originals: Here are my recreations: The type I used aren’t the same and I couldn’t figure out how to get a gradient in the numbers or the connect the dots type thingy. Also I’m only…Continue Reading IXD104 Week 7 : Master / Apprentice Excersises
Ixd103 Week7: Brand guidelines research task
During this weeks lecture time we were given the task of choosing a brand we like and compiling brand guidelines for it, as a means of practice before we start compiling our own. For this I chose my one of my favourite brands, Nintendo. I had already established things like their values and tone of…Continue Reading Ixd103 Week7: Brand guidelines research task
IXD104 Week 7: Lecture Reflection
This week’s lecture was all about visualising data. We looked at diagrams, visualisations and how data is really everywhere if you just take a look around you you’ll see it. We also looked at some different designers who are know for their data visualisation like David McCandless, Brendan Dawes and Giorga Lupi. In this lecture…Continue Reading IXD104 Week 7: Lecture Reflection
IXD103 Week 7: Lecture Reflection
Brand Guidelines This week’s lecture was all about brand style guidelines which are essentially rulebooks that explain how an organisation presents itself to the world through its design programme. It’s a tool that helps maintain consistency throughout the brand especially when you have different people and departments working with it. We also looked at the…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 7: Lecture Reflection
Ixd103: Word mark Research and Development
Research I first went and had a look at the pages on word marks in my “Designing Brand Identity” book by Alina Wheeler to give me a bit more insight into word mark design. I also looked at the section on typography while I was at it because I feel that that sort of ties…Continue Reading Ixd103: Word mark Research and Development
IXD103 Week 6: Lecture Reflection
Application Before getting into the lecture content we uploaded our Pizzeria Branding Tasks to padlet for critique. There wasn’t enough time to get to mine but it was really cool to see what everyone else had come up with. Here is a link to my blog post on the task: https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/laurabfoy/2021/03/01/ixd103-week5-pizzeria-branding-task/ After that we went into…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 6: Lecture Reflection
IXD103 Week5: Pizzeria Branding Task
What’s my brand? For this task I went a pre-existing and familiar (to me) brand, Pat’s Pizza in Donegal. So far Pat’s has three locations in Donegal. Two of these are casual takeaway Pizza places but the other, Pat’s on the Square offers a more high end, expensive, classic Italian dining experience and its branding…Continue Reading IXD103 Week5: Pizzeria Branding Task