Wireframe While we were provided with the general structure of our portfolio website I thought it would be good practice to wireframe out my website with my own assets including the manifesto I created which will sit in the hero section of the website and the rhythm and lyrics section which I now intend to […]

Where it began Postmodernism is said to have begun with the demolishing of the Pruitt-Igoe housing blocks in St Louis Missouri, see below. A building that was designed with a modernist style built to capture as much sunlight as possible and with various similar consideration to maximise the space. However, what was not considered were […]

The International Typographic Style also known as the Swiss Style emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s. Its object was to produce design that was content-focused similar to the modernist view that form follows function. Closely linked with the Swiss Style is the typeface Helvetica designed in 1957.   The Helvetica documentary film In the Helvetica […]

Modernism in the US partially began as a result of Adolf Hitler’s view on modern artist’s, designers, architects and so on as being degenerates braking from the traditional and nationalist values instilled by his right-wing political ethos and as a result, they had to flee the country many immigrating to the US in the 1930s […]

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. […]