I found the lecture on colour to provide a brilliant overview of how colour can be categorised and broken down as well as how to pair and develop colour palettes. This is really helpful as it will guide me through important formatting consideration when producing files on programmes such as Adobe illustrator e.g. set up […]

Gumption Coffee was originally founded by Hazel de los Reyes and Clare Lim in 2013 in Australia. The coffee shop grew in popularity as it’s founders won numerous competitions for their roasting skills. In 2018 2 locations were opened in New York and Lippincott, the designers of the Starbucks logo updated the original branding. What […]

The Hearty Slice The Pizzerias personality is friendly, quirky, humorous and diverse. A USP is that it sells slices from their take out window which makes the pizzeria particularly popular for lunch with those working locally and students. The Hearty slice has 3 fun, relaxed and quirky venues generating a good crowd in the evenings […]

I wanted to also take a little time to review navigation styling outcomes on popular apps and have outlined my findings below. Instagram Instagram uses stroke system icons in a nearly black these feature at the top and bottom of the screen. When selecting an item from the top bar nav the view moved to […]

Sketches Once I decided what icons to include in my navigation after having complete my artist research I created the above sketches of possible outcomes for my icons. As I continued planning and developing my app further icons were needed such as badges and exports which were then added to the above. I found producing […]

Research I began my research by looking at visual marques used by other designers and my top outcome was the astronaut shown at the top right of the above Pinterest board and used a visual marque by Luke Wroblewski. As Wroblewski is a leader in the field of UX design this outcome particularly caught my […]

Susan Kare Susan Kare created the icons for the original Macintosh. They were considered to add personality and warmth to the lifeless computer. Now however I feel the icons have a really nice digital retro feel that could be fun to play with in my app development for my Stars Wars Travel as a nod […]

What I took away from our lecture on illustrating interfaces is just how important effective illustrations and visuals can be as it makes information more easily digestible and appealing to view. There are also different approaches and styles of interfaces design that may help users to engage with the UI. Minimalism is a great way […]

There are two types of drawings/ illustrations that can appear in a logo, pictorial and abstract marks these can then be displayed independently or as part of combination marks including a wordmark. In the case of my personal branding, a combination mark will be more appropriate as my brand will be unknown and an independent […]

Tatooine illustration https://www.pinterest.co.uk/rachelmd46/travel-app-star-wars/ Before beginning my illustrations I created a Pinterest board of illustrations and app UI’s that grabbed my attention (see link above) and researched a number of visual artists including Victor Mosquera and Olly Moss. For my illustration of Tatooine, I wanted to create an outcome of the well-recognised scene of Jabba’s palace […]