Year: 2021

The Importance of Typography Type is approximately 94% of visual communication and is the driving force for visual communication. Throughout human history type has been ever present in all areas of the world in many different cultures expressing unique and individual visual gestures and visual communication with it being altered through cultural and historical reference….Continue Reading #IXD103 Week 3 – Typography

For this class Paul will go over illustration in UI design. I really enjoyed looking at all the different artistic styles that many other UI designers have created, it is inspiring to see the creativity, consistency and uniqueness of each one. Each one of these interfaces follows a different artistic style through illustrations and iconography….Continue Reading #IXD104 Week 4

In todays class we had a look at icons, their functions and style. “Trying to capture the essence of an object or idea with only a few lines and at the same time maintaining its elegance is pretty much design in a nutshell. That’s what’s so great about icons, they’re tiny poems.” —Kyle Tezak This…Continue Reading #IXD104 Week 2

Our first class for our IXD104 module consisted of a brief introduction into what we will be doing this semester. Such as a illustrative project and a diagrammatic project. Pictures/Visuals can hold information like nothing else. Humans are 43% more absorbent to visuals than to the written word. In this semester I hope to learn…Continue Reading #IXD104 Week 1

What does it mean to be unique? The world of branding is a very competitive market thus standing out is key. To be successful is to be good at being different so I must incorporate my most unique values into my brand to create a unique visual identity which can be widely recognized. What can…Continue Reading #IXD103 Week 4 – Exploring Identity

After the initial sketches of my monograms, I was still undecided of which logo I wanted. I then went into illustrator and developed my rough ideas there only this time expanding on minor areas to achieve a better and more defined understanding. Some problems I ran into with my monogram is the ‘J’ looking like…Continue Reading #IXD103 – Digitising Monograms

  “The universe cannot be read until we learn the language in which it is written. It is written in mathematics, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word.” – Galileo Galilei Looking at the history of human kind, we did not…Continue Reading #IXD103 Week 2 – How Geometry Influences Logo Design

Olly Johnathan Moss is another famous English illustrator who is most famous for his work on the game Firewatch and his Star Wars original trilogy posters. At first, graphic design came to Moss as a hobby but through university he began to create and publish popular t-Shirt designs on Threadless.com. Eventually, he showcased his work…Continue Reading #IXD104 – Olly Moss

For this task we are asked to create a Pizzeria Brand in a week recapping on and using our newly learned skills.   Like always, I need to ask myself some questions to set the foundations of my brand: Who my target audience will be? – Teenagers/Young Adults Where will my brand be based? – …Continue Reading #IXD103 Week 4 – Pizzeria Brand

In week 4’s class for our task we were asked to hand sketch 10 different objects including USB drive TV Radio IPad Camera Laptop Pencil Book Page Browser       This was a fun and creative task allowing me to draw a different variety of illustrations that represented that topic. I found this task…Continue Reading #IXD103 Week 4 – Task & Explore Visual Marque