Month: October 2020

After receiving feedback from a group critique session, I began making some improvements on my chosen type specimen screen. Some of the feedback I got included: Reducing the size of the alphabet, removing some of the text surrounding the ‘X’ and have the ‘X’ be the main focus with nothing on top of it. What…Continue Reading IXD102-Updated Type Specimen Screen

100 Iterations Project~ From my previous post, I have changed some of my chosen images of ‘Points’ so it fits my narrative better. The 9 images I have chosen are shown below: Pictures 2,3 and 6 are my own first hand images and the others are from Pinterest and other online resources.   Digital Recreations:…Continue Reading IXD101- 9 Images

The Netflix Series ‘Abstract’ involves a look at some of the most innovative designers. The episode I watched looked at digital product designer Ian Spalter. He has been the head of design at Instagram and is currently the head of Instagram Japan. He is a very successful designer, in fact, 1 in 7 people are…Continue Reading IXD102-Pocket Profile- Ian Spalter

In class, we looked at how UI cards are used to display content on websites or apps. They are user friendly as they show important information in the same place, they improve navigation and they are visually appealing. We were then asked to practice creating our own UI cards with music albums or tracks. The…Continue Reading IXD101-UI Cards

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at point, line and plane. We were asked to get into groups and research further into one of these, we decided to go with ‘Point’. Our next step was to choose a topic and collect a minimum of 100 images relating to the chosen topic. As…Continue Reading Group Project IXD101

In class we looked at how we can change and improve the look and feel of individual letters and pieces of text. We looked at the importance of size, colour, proportions, font and positioning. We started by editing individual letters, the results are shown below:   Joining letters and numbers: This taught me that you…Continue Reading IXD101-Experimental

This blog post shows my sketches and digital versions of my type specimen screens. 1.  Originally, I had the writing in line with ‘Helvetica’. However, I decided to change this so it was more upright and easier to read. I included the helvetica alphabet and numbers to show viewers what it looks like. I then…Continue Reading IXD102-Type Specimen Screens

I have now learnt and researched more about the principles of design. I have looked at, fibonacci, the golden ratio, the rule of three and overall the importance of text size and proportions. In class, we were asked to take the things we had learnt into consideration and play about with our manifesto to see…Continue Reading IXD101-Continuing with my manifesto…

After attending a lecture on the principles of design, i have learnt more about the Fibonacci Sequence. This involves a series of numbers in which you find the next number by adding the two previous numbers. When used in design, this can make it look more professional and gives it a better layout. I was…Continue Reading IXD101-Fibonacci Task

I was given the task to create three thumbnails for three different apps. These show the layout of Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest in a simple form. They are all quite similar, with the navigation at the bottom and the main content in the middle. Both Facebook and Instagram have ‘story’ features which are both at…Continue Reading IXD101-App Thumbnail Task