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 […]

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 […]

Origins Helvetica originally named Neue Hassocks Grotesk, was created by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger in 1957. The typefaces name was changed in 1960 to Helvetica, a Latin word meaning Swiss, in order to lend the typeface more readily to the international market. The typeface is now one of the most popular and commonly used. Miedinger […]

Wilson Miner Miner outlines how incredibly quickly we are progressing and how technology is being consumed in mass and shaping our environment so quickly with all signs indicating this progression will only become faster. I think it’s not only interesting but important to reflect upon our own role and input into this environment as interaction […]

The history of type and why it’s so important! The history of type might be mistakenly viewed as a “good to know” topic rather than a “need to know” topic. As a designer, I have realised this couldn’t be more wrong. The history of type is a definite need to know topic because it helps […]