Paula Scher…   Paula Scher was born in 1948 and is an illustrator, painter, graphic designer and art educator. She was the first female principle of Pentagram, when she joined in 1991. The New York approach to retro began with a small group of designers including Scher. They rediscovered earlier 20th century graphics ranging from…

To begin this project, I wanted to carry out some research into the background of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and simply what it exactly is and includes. While looking at the brief history of the declaration, I came across how the content is structured within the articles. This helped me see how the…

Before, after and during the First World War there was a revolution brewing across Europe and Russia. There was a need to break away from reminders of the war and it was led by a new generation of artists who brought about major changes. Revolution shaped the way for new art styles to emerge, following…

Looking back over the details from of typography is key when transferring onto the digital screen. A typeface is made up of a combination of different elements, some of which include serif, stroke, letter spacing and the height of the letters including ascenders and descenders. Two phrases that were new to me were the x-height,…

Final Three Outcomes 01) Rocket Launch  My inspiration behind this type screen specimen was the Apollo 11 mission rocket. I built a rocket silhouette using the title font of ‘FUTURA’ and then by changing the alignment of the small paragraph, placed it as the smoke and fire behind. The broken circle represents the rocket leaving…

While typography is key within design, colour can be used in many different ways within a design. It can be used to highlight specific information that could have been missed. It can also be used to evoke emotions within the reader and gives the designer with unlimited opportunities of what they can do with it. …

Una Kravets   Una Kravets is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google Chrome from New York. Her role is to work on improving the extensibility and styling on different web platforms to help UI developers and design systems engineers. Kravets completed a degree in Design and Applied Arts at the Studio Arts College International,…

01. Wax On, Wax Off Reflect: throw back without absorbing it/think deeply or carefully about. Multiply: obtain from another which contains the 1st number a specified number of times/increase or cause increase greatly in number or quantity. Disperse: distribute or spread over a wide area. Proximity: nearness in space, time or relationship. Scale: each of…

Jon Hicks   Jon Hicks was born on October 28, 1972, inn Leamington Spa and is an English designer who owns his own studio, Hicksdesign. He would be best known for rendering the Firefox logo into its final and most recent form. At age 16 he left school to study Technical Illustration for two years,…

Noun. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, as well as adjusting the space between pairs of letters. A quote that stood out to me was that “95% of…