Your blog should be a source of easy marks and should include:
- Reflection on what we have covered
- Research relevant designers/illustrators
- Mindmaps, sketches, wireframes and prototypes
Introduction to module and projects.
Travel App in a nutshell.
Icon set (5 icons)
Icons of cities
Simple interface
Your own travel app
- Three screens
- Home (launch screen)
- Pick a city, country, planet.
- Detail of city
- Working prototype
Who is the app for?
Think about the audience.
Look at different approaches, expand on your ideas.
Master Apprentice – travel icons recreations.
Designer research
John Hicks (HicksDesign)
Hicksdesign is the creative partnership of Jon & Leigh Hicks, working with clients globally design since 2002 from our studio in Oxfordshire, UK.
Mostly known for their logo work for Firefox, MailChimp and Shopify, skills cover a much broader spectrum of services and mediums.
Services
Web and Product Design
From low-fidelity wireframing and prototyping to a final coded design. They work directly in the browser as much as possible with design tools such a Figma). Also setup sites in Statamic and Kirby and work alongside front-end developers to provide a complete service.
Brand Identity
Refining and updating existing logos to increase effectiveness without losing brand equity.
Iconography
This is a speciality of theirs, with working with brands such as Skype, Spotify and Dyson.
They also can work in traditional print publishing.
From looking at their work I really like Iconography. Their icons are simplistic with the right amount of detail so thy are easily identifiable. I think researching their work will be helpful with how I design my icons, if I want to do a more simplistic icon set then I think they are good to reference for their style.
Vic Bell – Illustrator, iconographer, brand designer
I decided to look at two projects of Bell’s, the first one is his iconography work for Uber and the second one is his illustration work with Netlify.
Uber
I really like the simplicity of this set of icons, they focus on linework and I think this makes them easily recognisable and makes them stand out. I like how he sized them down to their simplistic form, this shows how easily identified some shapes together can be to show the appearance of a particular object.
Netlify
I looked at this project as I liked how Bell showed his process, his early sketches to his digital drawings to the final illustrations. I find this is a good element to show from projects as it helps tell the journey of the work. I also really like his illustrative style; it reminds me of a ‘flash’ tattoo page mixed with a modern cartoon style. This type of illustration interests me, and I find it a very popular style through research. This is a style that I want to try or incorporate into my work, using Vic Bell’s work as a reference/inspiration.
Website Reference – https://www.vicbell.co.uk/
Self Reflection
From this week’s content and research, I found it helpful in finalising my idea for my travel app. This week was mostly an introduction into the module and projects, from this I was able to start organising when I roughly have to have project two started and when I need to have project one finalised for without overlapping the projects too much to help combat any unnecessary added stress for the upcoming weeks.