Project 2 At the end of our third week session, Paul gave us our second project titled “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and this project is mainly focused on typography and how to use it in a suitable manner. For this project we needed to take one article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…Continue Reading IXD101 – Project 2 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Guttenberg and Movable Type Kyle began this class by discussing type and importance of it for designers today as it is a vital part in any design. He showed us a few websites that have a wide variety of font that we can activate and use for our own work such as Adobe Fonts. I…Continue Reading IXD102- Week 2 – Guttenberg and Movable Type

Core Principles Paul began with our second class by talking about core design principles and began by looking at Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvian Man which was create by using these principles such as the Golden Ratio which are still used today to create astounding and perfect designs. We began by looking at the golden ratio…Continue Reading IXD101- Week 2- Core Principles

Type Specimen For Screen For Kyle’s first project we were asked to create a type specimen for screen which would be based on a font we choose from the list given to us. The list of fonts were: Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Palatino, Times New Roman and Baskerville. I firstly gathered information on each font…Continue Reading IXD102 – Week 1/Project 1 – Type Specimen For Screen

Point, Line and Plane Within out first class Paul introduced us to the fundamentals of Design, which is the stepping stones of every design and these were known as point, line and plane. He then explained that in order to design anything you must begin with research and this lead into examples of both online…Continue Reading IXD101 – Week 1 – A Visual Vocabulary

Project 1 Within our first class with Paul we discussed what our first project would be and it was to cover our visual vocabulary and it would help us better understand the basic elements of point, line and plane. I began by going over what we had learnt in class such as examples of where…Continue Reading IXD101 – Project 1 – Wax On Wax Off

Wilson Miner is a web developer and digital designer who is based in San Francisco, he has previously worked as a product designer on Facebook, co-founded Everyblock which is a journalism start-up website, developed Django which allows for you to design and create websites, as well as, most notably working with Rdio in leading a…Continue Reading IXD102 – Wilson Miner “When We Build”