Year: 2021

Brand Guidelines Brand Guidelines   Portfolio Website Coded Homepage Full Prototype   Final Reflection It was in week one that I was encouraged to consider and articulate who I am as a designer, and what my core values are when it come to design. The values I settled on were to always aim to be…Continue Reading IXD103 : Final Submission + Reflection

Research In week 9 we looked at portfolio sites and I learned a lot about why they are great to have as well as the approach I should take  and things to consider when designing my own. You can see my reflection on that lecture here. This lecture gave me a good grounding but I…Continue Reading IXD103 : Portfolio Website Development From Start To Finish

City Illustration In my last travel app post I began considering the illustration part of my app. I tried drawing some Brussels monuments and came up with the idea of having them sit on a line together.   These sketches were very simple, just to get an idea of how to draw them simply put…Continue Reading IXD104 : Finishing My Travel App

Before sketching ideas I did a some research on infographics and data visualisation which included looking on Pinterest and creating a board full of inspiration and examples: https://www.pinterest.ie/laurabfoy/infographic-inspo/ I then brain stormed topic ideas. I put a star next to the topics that interested me the most in that I could immediately envision a concept for…Continue Reading IXD104: Initial Infographic concept

In week 6 we had a group critique on Miro and I had 3 of my travel app screens digitised for that.     Here are the critiques I got from my class mates: Considering the critiques I got I made some slight alterations and I started digitising some more screens. The minimum quantity of…Continue Reading IXD104 : My Travel App So Far

Research I learned a lot about brand guidelines and what they should consist of in Week 7’s lecture on them which I wrote about here. I also got a good sense of how to compile them for that week’s task where I tried compiling guidelines for Nintendo. You can find that here. I still felt…Continue Reading IXD103 : Developing My Brand Guidelines

This week we looked at the art of information and utilising data for creative purposes. We looked at Brendan Dawes, eCloud, the concept of big data, Jer Thorp, Aaron Koblin, Janet Echelman and Chris Jordan among other things.   I enjoyed this lecture as I got to see a range of example of data being…Continue Reading IXD1O4 Week 10: Lecture Reflection

During this week’s lecture on going beyond the brand we were given the task of designing an additional touchpoint fr our personal brands. This could have been anything from an animated logo and NFTs to branded merch and desktop backgrounds. Since I love using fashion as a form of self expression and having the items…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 10: Additional Touchpoint Task

This week’s lecture was all about going ‘beyond the brand’ and forming an emotional connection with your audience. To start off the lecture we had a quick refresher or overview of what all we had looked at to date as well as a simple checklist of what should be included in our research blogs.  …Continue Reading IXD103 Week 10 : Lecture Reflection

This weeks lecture was on manufactured fictions in the age of instagram. This lecture was to me a sort of breather from the content we had be looking at, all relating in some way to course work. We started by looking at deep fakes and in particular deep fake Tom Cruise. I personally find some…Continue Reading IXD104 Week 9: Lecture Reflection