De Stijl De Stijl otherwise known as “The Style” is a Dutch art movement founded of 1917 as a response to individualism and national egotism that was felt to be the cause of the war favouring a minimal, geometric abstract style unidentifiable to any country or individual. Founding members include Theo van Doesburg and Piet […]

Font Pairing Ruth Hamilton in her article 36 perfect font pairings proposes 3 tips for effectively pairings: Use font superfamilies, Pair contrasting typefaces and Pair type sub-categories. Use font superfamilies The term ‘super-family’ is used to describes a font with a variety of styles, weights and classifications designed to work together. An example of this […]

Aaron Duffy Aaron Duffy is co-founder of SpecialGuest and specialises in communication and visual experimentation. I love learning about anything that deals with communication so I was very excited to see how he combines visual experimentation with communication in an effective way and I was not disappointed. In Duffy’s presentation at OFFSET Dublin in 2019 […]

Una Kravets Una Kravets is a developer seeking to make the web more styleable and is a Developer Advocate at Google Chrome. A great tutorial I found from Kravets was on 10 Modern Layouts in 1 line of CSS. While I’m still struggling my way through CSS grids I’m not fully at the stage where […]

Markdown Following week five’s brief introduction to markdown, I looked at some resources including daringfireball.net and a brief linked in learning video on markdown basics. The website daringfireball.net was great for getting to grips with the basic rules of markdown and had some very cool features e.g. a markdown page is provided of the main […]

For the group project, I and my team members decided to create our presentation on the Pioneers of Postmodern Design drawn to the colourful and individualistic design outcomes the movement produced. This was a great project to work on and my team worked well together in dividing up the work and steadily contributing each week. […]

Essay writing process For my Web Essay, I chose to write about Saul Bass and how he changed the face of movie title sequences. As I was already familiar with a number of designers and have looked briefly at the work of Saul Bass before I automatically knew this was the topic I wanted to […]

Giorgia Lupi Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and in her Ted Talk how we can find ourselves in data she discusses how we perceive data and the importance of context. When the context is lost data can be misread and misrepresented. Lupi takes design in relation to data a step further, for Lupi making […]

Paula Scher I really enjoyed the abstract series and particularly the episode focusing on Paula Scher: Graphic Design. I was particularly struck by her work for The Public Theatre and how iconic the brand has become using simple weighting to produce a really interesting, bold and eye-catching. Scher breaks this down further by likening the […]

After having looked at how art movements that developed throughout the 1900s as a response to the movement from rural to urban bases I thought I would look at Japonism the Art’s and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau in a little more detail. I particularly want to see how I can draw influence from these […]