For our second project of this module we were put in groups and asked to research, prepare and present a slideshow on a topic related to design history. I was pair with with Emma, Saskia and Sarah. As a group we chose to do Design systems for the Olympic games as it seemed the most…Continue Reading IXD102- Group Presentation on Design Systems for the Olympic Games
IXD101 Week08- Adding css style sheet to History of Type
In Week8’s lecture I was introduced to css and some more html. I added stylesheets to my Baskerville and History of Type html pages as well as some of the new html things we looked at. Here is a link to my GitHub repository: https://github.com/LauraFoy/john_baskerville #101 …Continue Reading IXD101 Week08- Adding css style sheet to History of Type
IXD101 Week07- Intro to html excerises
In week 7’s Introduction to html lecture we were asked to apply the html learned so far to a piece of text on Baskerville and one on the History of Type. The only thing I found tricky was getting the readme link for the Baskerville page to work but once I realised that I had…Continue Reading IXD101 Week07- Intro to html excerises
1XD101- Follow The Rhythm Project
For this project we were asked to pick one of our favourite songs and present the lyrics in a way that suits the the artist and the musical the genre as well as the themes of the song itself. We were also asked to take rhythm and pacing into consideration and apply emphasis to important…Continue Reading 1XD101- Follow The Rhythm Project
IXD101 Week6- Markdown exercise
In week6 we were given an exercise introducing us to GitHub and markdown. I had to apply markdown a body of text in a README.md file and commit that to a GitHub repository. Here is a link to my repo for this exercise: https://github.com/LauraFoy/markdown #101 …Continue Reading IXD101 Week6- Markdown exercise
IXD101 Week 5 – Creating a Ui Card
In Mondays lecture we were tasked with creating a Ui card advertising a music album or track sticking to a specific layout. Here is what I did for Rina Sawayama’s self titled debut album using Figma. #101…Continue Reading IXD101 Week 5 – Creating a Ui Card
IXD101- 9 iterations project
For this project we had to first work in groups to collect 100 reference on a Pinterest board relating to point, line or plain under a specific topic. My group decided on line with buildings as our focus. Then we had to individually pick our 9 favourite images that make up a narrative. I chose…Continue Reading IXD101- 9 iterations project
IXD102 Type Specimen For Screen – Times New Roman
We were given 6 different fonts to choose from for this project and I decided to design a Type Specimen Screen for Times New Roman, arguably one of the most basic and apathetic fonts there is. I thought it would be an interesting challenge to see what design concepts I could come up with for…Continue Reading IXD102 Type Specimen For Screen – Times New Roman
1XD101 Week04- Typography Exercises
During this Monday’s lecture I was given the task of taking a letter and changing it’s character by adding or subtracting from it. I chose a capital L since that’s what my name starts with and here is what I did: What I did was relatively simple. I just cut segments off at an angle…Continue Reading 1XD101 Week04- Typography Exercises
1XD101 Week 03- Revisiting my manifesto using type scale
During this Monday’s lecture we were tasked with experimenting with type scale on the words of our manifestos. Here is what I did in Figma. I applied emphasis to certain words by making them larger and/or bolder. #101…Continue Reading 1XD101 Week 03- Revisiting my manifesto using type scale